Any M1 Garand experts here?

[bcp]

IIRC, the M1 had a 20 year, not continuous, production history, 1937 to 1957.

Wasn't the Johnson rifle in production for some country? I remember ads for surplus ones in magazines.

Bruce

 

[Garandman]

They had a production contract for $10,000 rifles with the Dutch, never delivered.

 

[bcp]

How many would you like?

 

[rtimgray]

How many would you like?

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I'm going to go ahead and order one of each....

There was a Johnson rifle here locally that was for sale for about $10,000 asking price. I saw later that it claimed it sold (at least that's what the ad said). By the pictures, it was in immaculate condition, but I don't know if it actually sold or the seller just put that on the ad....

 

[k0ua]

How many would you like?

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Mk4 SMLE's for $15.95... should have bought a million of them.. Jungle carbines for $24.95... oh well..

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Mk4 SMLE's for $15.95... should have bought a million of them.. Jungle carbines for $24.95... oh well..

Darn! I could have bought a Jungle Carbine for what I recently paid for a box of twenty .303 cartridges.

 

[Garandman]

I bought a really good Yugoslavian Mauser for $89. I think they're around $300 now.

 

[300UGUY]

I would love to have one; if I could afford it. I have always liked the esthetics of the rifle, and the round would be perfectly adequate for my purposes. I believe, if memory serves me right, that they were reproduced for the civilian market maybe 30 years ago...by either Ithica or Iver Johnson.

Wow! Imagine my surprise...there are quite a few out there who have or are manufacturing the M1 Carbine:


M1CarbinesInc.com

Really kind of surprised, I knew that GM produced tanks and other war matieral during ww2, but never knew they produced over 3 million carbines. Or that the Saginaw division produced machine guns!

Saginaw Steering division got sold to a Chinese company a few year ago. Things have really changed.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Really kind of surprised, I knew that GM produced tanks and other war matieral during ww2, but never knew they produced over 3 million carbines. Or that the Saginaw division produced machine guns!

Saginaw Steering division got sold to a Chinese company a few year ago. Things have really changed.

Yeah, lots of strange bedfellows during the war. Singer Sewing machine made rifles; Goodyear made F4U Corsairs. I'm sure there are lots of other examples.

 

[k0ua]

Rock-Ola the juke box people made carbines. You could really rock and roll with those. Singer the sewing machine folks made 500 of the rarest 1911 .45 pistols. They go for many thousands of dollars now due to the fact only 500 were made. It is estimated that there are only 5000 to 10000 of them in circulation today.