Bear with me, this will be lengthy, I thought I would share my experiences in correcting an October 1940 reciever to as original as I can get it. These early rifles are very expensive to do and require lots of patience and hunting for parts. This came to me as a CMP service grade, with basically...
While I wait to acquire an appropriate stock set for my late 1940 Garand, I decided to clean the muck off of the one that it's wearing now, a visibly marked RIA FK cartouche on a wartime Springfield stock. Using a 50/50 mix of mineral spirits and teak oil, 0000 steel wool, and a towel, I managed...
Hello everyone! I'm Alex. I live in the little town of Andrews on the Western edge of Huntington County. I've been around different forums for a while, somehow just finding my way here. I'm 24 and work as a conductor for Norfolk Southern RR. I was raised shooting from a young age with older...