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hello,,i've been outa garands for a couple years now and sold mine when the price was high,,i had 6 at one time 3 winchesters a h+r and a springfield i had converted to a tanker lenght and a standard lenght springfield ,,i had some good books that would have told if your parts number are correct,,but the books went with the rifles ,,i can say this much from memory though the barrel should be a SA with a ww2 date ,,it sounds like the barrel may have been replaced at some time or it may have been a danish return rifle,,the sites i don't think are correct either ,,the op rod should have been a sa marked under the op rod handle,,the bolt is a korean war time frame rebuild number,,the trigger group is a SA number but without the books i couldn't tell ya if the -12 revision number is correct or not,,the hammer should be a 2829SA-?,,then you need to know if the gas cylinder is correct ,,and all the internal parts are correct also ,,so to me it sounds like you have a common rebuild rifle that the armor replaced alot of the original parts with whatever they grabbed or someone built it from some of the kits that used to be available with a mix of manufactres parts ..the only part that may be original to the rifle may be the actual receiver
,,as to your question on haveing it restored to battle issue specs ,,i wouldn't bother ,,because your talking about a pretty extencive project and i don't beleive it would justify the investment over final value ,,mixmasters m1 garands are selling in the 550-650 range,,to restore it back to original with original parts and pay a gunsmith to do the work you could be looking at around 500-600 bucks and even then that number could be low but i wouldn't think much cheaper to do the job right!to get the proper barrel and have it installed and headspaced you would proably be looking at 250-300 alone if ya could find the correct barrel for the year of the rifle,,as for your loose stocks ,,i've herd a good gunsmith could galss bed the lockup aeras and tighten up the triggerguard ,,the front handguard should be a little loose and correct stock to gas cylinder is supposed to be the thickness of a phone book cover as a rule of thumb ,,so it may feel a little loose
,,i'd look around for a copy of m1 garand data sheets i beleive bruce canfeild put together ,,it should give you an idea of what parts numbers should be in your rifle year range ,,also for a very good book on the types of parts and correct markings look for a book by joe poyer on the m1 garands ,,both of these books might run you around 25-30 bucks for both and possibly cheaper online at some of the bookstores who deal in used copys ,,this is well spent money and before you get into something that might cost as much as the guns worth i'd see how many parts you need to restore it correctly
bigcurt
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