If Anybody runs across a rather beat-up CMP "US Rifle, Garand, Caliber .30, M1" that has the following features:
"serial number 1070170, rifling discontinuous, torn, and broached, stock and forearm scarred and marred, butt plate dented and pitted, bolt OK"
Please have them hold it for me. I'll pay full price; no discounts requested. Despite all the defects, it still shoots Expert.
I always fantasized that the barrel was shot out during a Banzai charge on some Pacific Theater island. It certainly had undergone some kind of Unusually Hard Use.