Posted March 9, 2018 11:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

A line of M1 Garands up for grabs at the CMP’s South Store in Anniston, Alabama. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
With a large cache of vintage M1 Garands recently repatriated back home from overseas allies, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has announced that some seldom-seen variants are now available.
In a statement issued Thursday, the federally chartered non-profit organized to support marksmanship activities nationwide said they had numbers of M1s made by International Harvester Company in stock. Long unavailable except for occasional small batches turned over by the Army, IHC Garands in both Field and Service grades are listed for sale through mail order on the CMP’s website. The rifles are priced at $980 and $1,080, respectively.
Of the more than 5 million Garands produced for the military, just 337,623 were made by IHC and most of those were sent overseas to U.S. allies in the 1950s and 60s, making the number in circulation in the U.S. limited. A myriad of IHC guns with minor differences such as “Postage Stamp,” “Gap Letter,” and “Arrowhead” variants further drives up collectibility on these late-model rifles.
The guns now available likely come from a batch of 13,000 recently returned to the U.S. after use by the Turkish Air Force.

Source: Guns.com

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