Well the trip was great. Fun AND Educational. Met up with DMC49 about 5am and headed up that way, good conversation, time flew by we were there before I knew it. Same on the way back. Went in and first thing was to check out the Kimbers. I had decided to buy 2, one of the so called "NEW" ones and one of the rusty ones. After looking at all of the new ones I changed my mind. Every one of them had gouges, not scratches, gouges and most of them were the length of the stock. D was looking for his so I walked over to the rustys and he had found several with hardly no rust and with very small or no scratches. Found two, one that D had set aside which had a scratch so small and light I had to put my glasses on to see it and (Like neck said about his), I wiped off the surface rust on the bolt with my finger. Found the second one with no scratch and same with the surface rust. Actually, like all the people I spoke with said, none of them were really rusty. Got those two. Then went looking for a Garand. After gleaning info from a lot of people here I had pretty decided on what I was looking for, an HRA Service Grade. Well, they only had 5 of those, mixed matched and looked terrible and the best barrel readiing was muzzle 2+/throat 3+. Decided against getting one and DMC had started looking around. He found some Springfields that looked pretty good. By that time I had been through the HRA Service Specials and seriously considered buying one. I didnt much care for the CMP stamped stock though. Then D called me over and showed me what he had found, it was a Springfield Field Grade which looked pretty good. I got the gauges from Leon and we took measurements. Muzzle 1+/throat 3. Looking at it I decided to get it. I took it over to Leon behind the counter and asked a couple of questions about the readings and he measured the barrel and said the gun was service grade standards and that the barrel readings are what you would find on a new barrel and pulled out a new barrel and showed me that the readings were the same. I then bought a box of ammo and mentiioned to Leon I was thinking about buying a bayonet. He pulled out his book and gave me a quick block of instruction on bayonets from Pattern 1905-1950's. Only took a few minutes and I learned something. So we checked out, D bought us lunch and we headed back. Good trip.
'56 Springfield. Matching Barrel and Reciever. Reparkerized.
Kimbers
Heres the scratch on the bottom one.
'56 Springfield. Matching Barrel and Reciever. Reparkerized.
Kimbers
Heres the scratch on the bottom one.
