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Springfield M-1 Garand NM

rdholi
Can anyone offer information on this rifle--history, quality value? It is a National Match rifle assembled by an US Armorer. The tape around the trigger guard dates 1961 and reads National Match. Please see images. This rifle was recently purchased from an estate sale.
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  • Herschel
    rdholi, I was firing in highpower rifle competition in the 1960's and can shed some light on the rifle you have. First, it is an accurazed M1 Rifle. The photo does not clearly show the bottom two lines so can't read them. True National Match rifles were made at Springfield Armory and Rock Island Arsenal. Only those made there were true National Match rifles. The serial numbers were in the 5,000,000 to just over 6,000,000 range. It was common in those years to have a issue rifle built into a match grade rifle by carefully assembling it with National Match parts. This was done and I believe until recently was being done by civilian gunsmiths. The tape on the trigger guard was an indication it had been weighed and met the 4 1/2 pound minimum pull weight to be legal for use in the National Trophy Individual and National Trophy Team Matches. The NTI was, and I supposed still is referred to as the "Leg Match". The tape was only significant for that match, that year and signified nothing other than the trigger weight was legal. It is possible but I think highly unlikely that the rifle was an original National Match built by SA or RIA from an old rifle. If so it would have been rebuilt by the armorer identified on the stock. I have a 19llA1 Pistol that I had an army armorer build into a hard ball match pistol. It has some NM parts but in no way can be claimed to be a National Match pistol. Unfortunately commercial manufacturers have adopted the name "National Match" for some of their target grade guns. The NM stamped on many parts of M1 rifles will surely deceive the unknowing collector in the future into thinking he has something special when he only has a accurized M1 rifle. The navy built some match grade M1 rifles in 7.62 NATO cal. but they should not be considered National Match rifles. Hope this information helps. If you will email me I can give you a source of more information.
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  • nmyers
    Value is difficult to determine.

    Most competitive shooters have switched to the AR-type rifle. There are only a small number of serious .30 M1 match shooters, & they would want to examine & gauge many parts before buying; they would probably want to fire it to see how well it groups.

    If you were to list it on this site, I would expect it to sell in the $600-1,000 range.

    Neal
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