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Posted: 1/10/2010 9:35:35 PM EDT
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I wanted to see which books or websites would be required reading for a new Garand collector. I would like to have a war model of each of the 4 manufacturers, but I know nothing of "correct parts", "arrowheads" and other subtleties.
The Duff books seem to be well regarded, but he has several. Where should I start? Also, any list of "must haves" in a Garand collection would be appreciated as well. |
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I wanted to see which books or websites would be required reading for a new Garand collector. I would like to have a war model of each of the 4 manufacturers, but I know nothing of "correct parts", "arrowheads" and other subtleties. The Duff books seem to be well regarded, but he has several. Where should I start? Also, any list of "must haves" in a Garand collection would be appreciated as well. you might want to check out this website http://www.thegca.org/ |
For a new guy, I'd just gets Duffs books. Id suggest avoiding the GCA at first. Those guys get into such, minute stupid details that it about takes the fun out of Garand collecting. But if you want to know the name of the guy who put 25 M3A1 combo tools in a box of that was only supposed to hold 24, in early December 1944 - (BUT dont get these confused with the early December lot which Brushes had 72,000 bristles, inside a Right hand Twist coil) the GCA is the place to look.
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I wanted to see which books or websites would be required reading for a new Garand collector. I would like to have a war model of each of the 4 manufacturers, but I know nothing of "correct parts", "arrowheads" and other subtleties. The Duff books seem to be well regarded, but he has several. Where should I start? Also, any list of "must haves" in a Garand collection would be appreciated as well. By "war model" you mean WWII, only SA and Winchester made them during WWII. H&R and IHC got involved in making them in the '50s and, on this I am not sure, some of them made it into the Korean War. I have at least one by each of the manufacturers. Don't feel alone, I have never quite understood all the "arrowhead" and "postage stamp" subtleties and I have read articles on it. 
Generally speaking, if you take a mixmaster and put all "correct" parts on it, I don't believe you really accomplish anything as far as value. Now, if it leaves CMP as a "Correct Grade" or a "Collector Grade", you have something of value. Or, if you can find a documented all correct parts or a documented collector specimen, you would have something of value but you will pay out the wazoo if it's a WWII model. CMP puts those up for auction. 
They did have some still in the wrapper Garands displayed for, IIRC, $25,000 for the pair. I don't remember the age of them. |
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I wanted to see which books or websites would be required reading for a new Garand collector. I would like to have a war model of each of the 4 manufacturers, but I know nothing of "correct parts", "arrowheads" and other subtleties. The Duff books seem to be well regarded, but he has several. Where should I start? Also, any list of "must haves" in a Garand collection would be appreciated as well. there are many forums that have garand sections in them, (obviously this site included) jouster.com is one of the better sites, (JMHO) for garand info, and I'm sure there may be a better site ,, Duff's books, even tho some consider them dated, are a must have, the red is WWII the blue is post warm, get one of each hatcher's notebook and book of the garand are good reads too, use addall.com to find new and used copies, I have a good friend who had one of each, correct grade, then decided that there are too many variations to try to get them all, (he's very anal about things like that, and that's not a bad thing!) so he decided to go WWII, and get a good representation of each year of the conflict, all SA (he still has a winchester just for shits and giggles) I have one of each manufacture, and a few spares, basically the moral is , it's get what you like, do the research and pick your niche, |
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] They did have some still in the wrapper Garands displayed for, IIRC, $25,000 for the pair. I don't remember the age of them. You know, I actually wouldn't want an in the wrap rifle. There's so much variation in how a wood stock can look just in grain pattern, then take into account sitting in cosmoline or other preservative for all these years. I'd be like a 5 year old on Christmas morning in that I'd constantly want to unwrap and see what it looks like. In doing so, I'd remove thousands in value too, that's half the reason I don't have one. The other half being that I don't have $10,000+ to spend on a rifle. |
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