M1 Garand Owners - What Spare Parts Do You Keep?

[UnionMillsNW]

A pretty self explanatory question. For platforms such as the AR it's fairly simple to pick up an extra trigger control group or bolt...but for my friends that own M1 Garands what (if any) spare parts do you keep handy?

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[Ownerus]

Ummm.... a couple of M1s?

 

[ron]

Firing pin. Owned and shot Garands in matches for 35 years. Never broke any other part.
Bought a bunch of M1 parts years ago from the CMP when they were cheap.

 

[UnionMillsNW]

@ron beautiful rifles!

 

[Ura-Ki]

Firing pins, Springs, spare op rods! Not much else needed!

 

[MountainBear]

What @Ura-Ki said. Spring kits, op rods (getting spendy), and firing pins.

 

[JuglansRegia]

For sure you'll want a complete set of bolt parts, if you lose an extractor, you can kiss the rest of the bolt parts goodbye. Other than that, I keep an extra gas plug plus all the pins for the fire control assembly. I would say that is the minimum amount of spare parts.

 

[jbett98]

A spare thumb would be handy some days.