Hey all. My beautiful wife gave me this for Christmas/Birthday! It's a 1942 Service Grade from the CMP. Remarkable condition. I heard the Service Grade's were nice but this one truly blew me away when I opened the case. I am not a collector, so maybe the little things matter, but not to me. I have a couple of questions. My grandfather had one of these from the War that he sold as 'junk' in the 80's. Man I can't wait to shoot this thing!
Since the CMP states that every rifle is:
"Each M1 Garand rifle sold by CMP is an authentic U.S. Government rifle that has been inspected, headspaced, repaired if necessary and test fired for function. Each rifle is shipped with safety manual, one eight-round clip and chamber safety flag."
My question is what to do before firing? The above statement leads me to believe that I don't have to disassemble and inspect for function like the issued manual says to do so. Obviously common sense comes to play if something is clearly wrong, but on initial inspection it looks fine. I have some ball ammo coming from them too.
Let me add that they are apparently filling some back orders that were received prior to Sept 28 if you have one on order. I don't know how many though.
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Since the CMP states that every rifle is:
"Each M1 Garand rifle sold by CMP is an authentic U.S. Government rifle that has been inspected, headspaced, repaired if necessary and test fired for function. Each rifle is shipped with safety manual, one eight-round clip and chamber safety flag."
My question is what to do before firing? The above statement leads me to believe that I don't have to disassemble and inspect for function like the issued manual says to do so. Obviously common sense comes to play if something is clearly wrong, but on initial inspection it looks fine. I have some ball ammo coming from them too.
Let me add that they are apparently filling some back orders that were received prior to Sept 28 if you have one on order. I don't know how many though.
