![]() ![]() ![]() It's a matter of market demand and what a willing buyer would pay for yours. Some collectors tend to pay more for a totally "correct" example, and less for a "rebuild" like yours that has a mixture of parts of various vintages. With that as background, your rifle is a genuine M1 Rifle, however it is not "correct" even if all other parts are of the proper vintage for the serial number simply because the barrel is a replacement. Back in the day, "parts is parts" was the order of the day, and NOBODY paid any attention to what parts were assembled into rifles as long as they were not obsoleted. At least that is what most serious collectors assume. So a rifle with a receiver serial number dating to June 1943 would be expected to have parts with specific drawing numbers / suffixes that trace to that time, or within a month or three. For example, bolts and other parts have a suffix to the drawing number, something like "-2SA" or "-9SA" where the suffix indicates a particular revision to the part. Purist collectors seem to be caught up in wanting their M1 Rifles to be "correct," will all parts comprising a given example being of the correct vintage. ![]() To me, or another shooter, an M1 Rifle that was arsenal rebuilt with a replacement barrel that gauges Muzzle Wear of "0" or "1" is worth more than a "correct" M1 Rifle with an original barrel from early 1945 that is "shot out" and gauges >3 or 4. This does not affect the the value of the weapon in general does it?That depends. ![]() Last edited by Noah_Zark May 13th, 2016 at 01:09 PM. Think of drawing numbers as "part numbers". Barrel drawing numbers from wartime through 1957 were "D35448" where "D" was the size of the blueprint sheet on which the drawing was made, and 35448 was the actual number of the part. Sometime after that, your rifle was rebuilt and this barrel was installed. Your barrel is a postwar replacement made by the government's Springfield Armory in March, 1967. W1 - "Heat Number" i.e., lot number code of the steel from which the barrel was made. The number on the barrel of your M1 Rifle breaks down as follows:Ħ535448 - Drawing number (1960s spare part production) This suggests it was manufactured Jan-Feb 1945. The reason I think the receiver is WW2 era is because the number on it is: 3429466. I want to know how to decipher the number on the barrel. I have an M1 Garand that so far appears to be a WW2 era rifle. ![]()
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