well, i got lucky.
its a rather long story but because of some outdated paperwork at the CMP office i ended up with two service grade winchester garands. im sure not to many people keep up with the supply of garands but just recently CMP recieved a shipment of 250 winchester garands, 55 international harvesters, and a hand full of VAR barreled danish return springfields. they sold out in 2 days, on the 24th to be exact of the winchesters and springfields.
on the 25th i found the site
what a bummer to find out that i missed out on the winchesters.
i had been waiting for several months (90 day backorder) on the springfield service grade guns. on the 26th i got a call from CMP saying that i left my email address off my paperwork and that they were ready to fill my order. as a after thaught i decided to pay the extra 200 each and get the var barreled garands.
3 hours later i got a call back, the lady on the other end said that her paperwork was outdated and that they were out of both the origonal guns that i ordered and the var barreled guns and that i was going to have to wait up to 90 more days.
at this point, not wanting to repeat another kahr arms fiasco i would settle for 3 lesser grade garands in place of two nice ones as long as i could get them with in a week. as a side thaught i asked about winchesters, turns out they had field grades but they were pricy for a gun that i would have to replace the barrels on anyhow. HOWEVER, she said sence ive been waiting so long for my origional order that she would bump me to the head of the line for the winchester service grades, as long as i dint tell any body
so 1400 dollars later i found out today that they were shipped and should be here tommarow or the next day
the funny thing is that there already selling on the auction sites for 1500-2000 each.
ive just got one problem, after last years high power seasion all i have is one enblock clip of soft point 30-06, one enblock of fragmentory 30-06, several of ww2 AP ammo, and two boxes of 1944 m2 ball ammo. i never restocked because im switching to a m16 for this year. i guess ill have to wait until after the next gunshow to shoot them.
ill post pictures of my otheres when they get here. for the time being heres my first garand. im addicted.
its a rather long story but because of some outdated paperwork at the CMP office i ended up with two service grade winchester garands. im sure not to many people keep up with the supply of garands but just recently CMP recieved a shipment of 250 winchester garands, 55 international harvesters, and a hand full of VAR barreled danish return springfields. they sold out in 2 days, on the 24th to be exact of the winchesters and springfields.
on the 25th i found the site
what a bummer to find out that i missed out on the winchesters.i had been waiting for several months (90 day backorder) on the springfield service grade guns. on the 26th i got a call from CMP saying that i left my email address off my paperwork and that they were ready to fill my order. as a after thaught i decided to pay the extra 200 each and get the var barreled garands.
3 hours later i got a call back, the lady on the other end said that her paperwork was outdated and that they were out of both the origonal guns that i ordered and the var barreled guns and that i was going to have to wait up to 90 more days.
at this point, not wanting to repeat another kahr arms fiasco i would settle for 3 lesser grade garands in place of two nice ones as long as i could get them with in a week. as a side thaught i asked about winchesters, turns out they had field grades but they were pricy for a gun that i would have to replace the barrels on anyhow. HOWEVER, she said sence ive been waiting so long for my origional order that she would bump me to the head of the line for the winchester service grades, as long as i dint tell any body
so 1400 dollars later i found out today that they were shipped and should be here tommarow or the next day
the funny thing is that there already selling on the auction sites for 1500-2000 each. ive just got one problem, after last years high power seasion all i have is one enblock clip of soft point 30-06, one enblock of fragmentory 30-06, several of ww2 AP ammo, and two boxes of 1944 m2 ball ammo. i never restocked because im switching to a m16 for this year. i guess ill have to wait until after the next gunshow to shoot them.
ill post pictures of my otheres when they get here. for the time being heres my first garand. im addicted.
The ISRA had one on raffle that looked pretty good though...
field grades go about 800-900 on the open market, there good shooters but you will have to replace the barrel with in a few thousand rounds.