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No, not the computer. It's due next week.

This Harrington and Richardson M1 Garand.

Stock looks like it was carved with a dull butter knife!!! Metal seems pretty good. Not much apparent wear. Should clean up nice.

Wow, that *is* nice.

Considering the rifles were turned out in the hundreds of thousands (millions?), I doubt that they had much time to sharpen the blades on the milling machines that made stocks out of hardwoods. I'd say it was a pretty damn good job, LOL.

You gonna smooth it down some, or leave it "rustic"?

Well this is what is known as a Greek return. Many of the M1 Garands were shipped off to Greece, (and Denmark) after WWII and then returned to te USA some time later. Some of these had the stocks "replaced" in Greece.

I had an USGI HRA Service grade on order since January, but they ran out before they filled my order.

I switched to the Greek Service grade when I learned that there were only 500 left.

I think it is the wood is Beech, but it is hard to tell. The thing is like a freakin plank of wood, I mean it's heavy. I can't imagine what it was like to carry one of these things (and the ammo!) from Normandy to Austria.

I am looking for an original HRA stock to put back on it.

I can't wait to shoot it. BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG PING

I recall stories about the infamous "PING" that these rifles put out when the clip is empty, and how soldiers would carry an empty clip around with them. they'd fire off a couple shots and throw the empty clip down which would make the enemy think that they just drained their rifle, but when they come charging, they had a bit of a surprise awaiting them.

Yaa you get the same "ping" in COD, you get down 2 a couple of bullets and plast them off, "ping". It would be really neat to try one on a range.