![]() To order a rifle from CMP, you have to be a U.S. Sales go to support marksmanship endeavors by the group. While CMP officials explained that the guns returning from Turkey and a larger batch incoming from the Philippines are not outwardly marked as a rule, some collectors who have recently bought M1s through the organization have discovered paper dope cards written in Turkish affixed to rifles.įor those who want a more common (and less expensive) Springfield or H&R-made Garand, CMP has them in Field grades for $650 with free shipping with Service grades being $750. The Garand Collectors Association, whose volunteers helped catalog the shipment, said as many a quarter of the guns inspected were IHCs. sent over 300,000 M1s as aid to NATO-allied Turkey between 19. The guns now available likely come from a batch of 13,000 recently returned to the U.S. A myriad of IHC guns with minor differences such as “Postage Stamp,” “Gap Letter,” and “Arrowhead” variants further drives up collectibility on these late-model rifles. allies in the 1950s and 60s, making the number in circulation in the U.S. ![]() Of the more than 5 million Garands produced for the military, just 337,623 were made by IHC and most of those were sent overseas to U.S. The rifles are priced at $980 and $1,080, respectively. Long unavailable except for occasional small batches turned over by the Army, IHC Garands in both Field and Service grades are listed for sale through mail order on the CMP’s website. In a statement issued Thursday, the federally chartered non-profit organized to support marksmanship activities nationwide said they had numbers of M1s made by International Harvester Company in stock. ![]() ![]() With a large cache of vintage M1 Garands recently repatriated back home from overseas allies, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has announced that some seldom-seen variants are now available. ![]()
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