The Gun Counter

Great news:
70,000,000 rounds of Greek 30'06.
140,000 to 175,000 bayo's.
Over 17,000 more garands , most in super condition.

From Granditis

GCA/Anniston 2009 - (Joe the Butcher) 10-12-09
All I can say is WoW what a great time. The GCA was warmly welcomed by the entire CMP staff. Great group of people. You will read all the particulars and view the photos on the CMP forums.

One bit of information you will not read about is the large lithograph hanging in a private meeting room at the new facility where the rifle sort took place. It's an arial photograph of the entire business park where the 4 main CMP South buildings are located. The caption very simply reads, "CMP 2025"

CMP has recently locked up deals which include; 175,000 bayonets,
70 million additional rounds 30-06 Ball ammo from Greece, enough M1 rifles for at least another 5 years......and additional items.

All good news for us M1 rifle enthusiasts Clemenza

Notes on 2009 Convention – sorting Garands

I just wanted to give any interested folks a few quick notes on some of what we saw last weekend while working on Garands. My brain is still on overload from all we got to see but let's see if I can relay some of what I saw and some of what I learned.

These were returned from the Greek Air Force (I am betting lots of inter-service joke potential there …)

Many, many, many (did I say 'many'?) near mint rifles with nothing wrong but the trigger group and/or stock were switched. I think a third or more of what I saw was truly excellent like this, and it actually became more unusual to see one with the correct trigger group and stock. As to condition, these could be anything from fairly used to nearly unfired (if not completely unfired). But there were many that were right as rain and nearly unmarked - clearly collector grades. If that holds across the board it means that there were over 6000 rifles that were collector grades or a stock/trigger group away from collector grades.

A good number of the late rifles were rebuilt and reparked with several layers on one pallet having the orange wood sets. Nice and new from rebuild stuff that would please many a shooter, I'm sure.

Rebuilds seemed to be of 2 or 3 types; a very few WWII rebuilds with mostly WWII parts and barrels, early 50's rebuilds with early 50's barrels and parts (I did see an SA open box over O), and later Greek rebuilds of quite fine quality.

I saw no WWII rifles with their original barrels or especially stocks and doubt there was even one substantially original WWII rifle in there. Possibly a barreled receiver but that is about it. If so, I didn't hear about it.

I saw very little of the repaired wood with that almost typical Greek repair (the saw cut with cross-grain inserts to reinforce the grain across a crack). Broken wood was rarely seen - I saw 2 and heard of a few more.

Grease was not as abundant as some of the other Greek shipments, but it was present. Some was what sure looked like axle grease, and some was that really waxy, pinkish stuff that stiffens up until you touch it and move it around. Some was just hardened yellow stuff that didn't move at all...(more)

PawPaw wrote:That sounds like great news! (If you understand that there's really no hope for Garand fans.)

enough M1 rifles for at least another [strike]5[/strike] 2 years......

Flintlock Tom wrote:

PawPaw wrote:That sounds like great news! (If you understand that there's really no hope for Garand fans.)

Yup, no cure.

cu74 wrote:I agree with NPR - 17,000 Garand won't last nearly five years.

1911Man wrote:

cu74 wrote:I agree with NPR - 17,000 Garand won't last nearly five years.

They won't if I can help it. I can't buy them all, but I should be able to help a few of them find homes with friends.