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Hey Folks,
My favorite rifle is my CMP M1 Garand Special. It's a mix of parts and a 308 barrel. The receiver and bolt are post war...However the entire trigger group, and the Op Rod, is from 1940-1941. Was my trigger group at Bastogne? Or maybe on Iwo Jima? Perhaps my grandfather carried part of the rifle at Peleliu...
(Or perhaps it never went anywhere and just sat in a box for seventy years)
And what about my grandfather's Colt 1911? It was manufactured in 1944 but has British proof marks all over it. Did this pistol jump into Normandy? or maybe it was at the Nuremberg Trials...
What about your firearms? What are the History's Mysteries that they hold?
My favorite rifle is my CMP M1 Garand Special. It's a mix of parts and a 308 barrel. The receiver and bolt are post war...However the entire trigger group, and the Op Rod, is from 1940-1941. Was my trigger group at Bastogne? Or maybe on Iwo Jima? Perhaps my grandfather carried part of the rifle at Peleliu...
(Or perhaps it never went anywhere and just sat in a box for seventy years)
And what about my grandfather's Colt 1911? It was manufactured in 1944 but has British proof marks all over it. Did this pistol jump into Normandy? or maybe it was at the Nuremberg Trials...
What about your firearms? What are the History's Mysteries that they hold?