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  • 35 Whelen
    I volunteer as tribute.
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  • hillbille
    ricci, you can deewww itt.......
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  • mark christian
    Cleaned? More like sand blasted.

    When I was in Anniston last year for the Garand Collectors Association annual meeting the CMP had separate room set up with about two hundred M1s available for sale. I can say in all honestly that there was not a single rifle in that room which I would have purchased.
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  • montanajoe
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    87,000???,,,good gosh,that's like 7 dozen or something :o:o:o:o

    ..some of those look pretty bad,,
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  • wpageabc
    Come on guys there M1's some spit and polish. Good as new... :mrgreen:
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  • NeoBlackdog
    It irks me to see those old warhorses stacked in like cord wood.
    Show some damn respect...
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  • bustedknee
    The easiest way to clean 87,000 rifles is 87,000 people.

    Send me one, I will clean it. We need 86,999 more volunteers.




    If I was president I would give one to the next 87,000 military retirees.
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  • redneckandy
    That is why I never loan my tools out. Look at those poor rifles.
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  • Sam06
    I just did a quick math check and not including cost at CMP they have $62 in each of the rifles.

    You figure they clean them up/fix say 50,000 use the rest for parts. Sell some of the odd balls like the 1st H&R gun and some other ones for big bucks. You figure to clean them and inspect them will take maybe 2 hrs average. I don't know what they pay the guys doing that but I imagine its at least $20 and Hr. Each guy does say 6-10 guns a day, that is going to take a long time.

    So now they have $102 +/- in each gun and sell them for $800- $1200 each they will still be making some serious coin. Then all the parts they have left over are worth something too, barreled actions even rough are worth 200 bucks.

    At 1st I was thinking; man just throw that crap away and then.............I started really thinking about it.

    I almost forgot the money used was Government money so in reality they have nothing in the guns it will all be profit.


    Just think about all the other guns they have in PI; M1 Carbines, 1911a1, Thompson's, BAR's, M1919a1-6, M3's and other stuff like Jeeps and trucks.
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  • arraflipper
    Seems like a crying shame to not take care of any gun. Bet when they sere sent over they were not like that, and were very much needed. Shows major disrespect to me, next time they need something on the lend lease send them back to them as a reminder. Hopefully some can be saved and parts used off of many. I would sure take one and clean back up again, I think I still now how to break one down and keep my fingers out of the way when loading.
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  • mogley98
    a million dollars to treat the stocks for termites??!! WOW
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  • mogley98
    a million dollars to treat the stocks for termites??!! WOW
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  • us55840
    Goes to show, what a waste to give other countries millions of dollars worth of arms is crazy.
    They don't take care of them since they have zero investment in them.
    Millions of wasted tax dollars again.

    Same with spending billions of tax dollars on the homeless who don't care.

    :twisted:
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  • He Dog
    montanajoe wrote:
    87,000???,,,good gosh,that's like 7 dozen or something :o:o:o:o

    ..some of those look pretty bad,,


    Math ain't your thang is it? Closer to eleventy four dozen. :D
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  • montanajoe
    • Community moderator
    He Dog wrote:
    montanajoe wrote:
    87,000???,,,good gosh,that's like 7 dozen or something :o:o:o:o

    ..some of those look pretty bad,,


    Math ain't your thang is it? Closer to eleventy four dozen. :D
    ;);):lol::lol:
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