Welcome to in the present day’s Photo of the Day! Here we have now the primary occasion of an M1 Garand rifle being fitted for sniper obligation. This is the M1C and it’s the precursor to the M1D which I’ve already talked about in a earlier Photo of the Day. Developed in 1944, these rifles had been to switch the M1903 rifles that had been within the sniper rifle position. These rifles had been chosen for his or her accuracy and fitted with a Griffin & Howe scope mount that was mounted with three screws on the lefthand facet of the receiver. Later the M1D would substitute the M1C with its barrel-mounted mount.
“This model was developed in 1944 and was the standard issue sniper rifle during late WWII, Korea and into Vietnam. It was eventually replaced by the M1D sniper rifle version which could be produced in-house by Springfield using a newly manufactured replacement sniper barrel fitted with a scope mounting block directly on the barrel. It is estimated that approximately 4,000 were produced during WWII with hundreds provided to various NATO allies in the late 1950s/early 1960s and hundreds destroyed by the U.S. Government in the 1980/90s. This rifle was originally manufactured in late January 1945. It was overhauled/rebuilt at some point, and it is now fitted with a Springfield Armory barrel marked “1-SA-3-45″. It is fitted with a set of WWII Springfield Armory manufactured parts, as follows: Bolt,” -19SA”, Hammer “-8 SA”, Trigger Housing, “-18-SA”, uncut Op Rod, “D35382-9SA”. It is fitted with an earlier WWII kind locking bar rear sights with a post-WWII broad base fuel cylinder and an unmarked spherical prime fuel cylinder lock and four-slot fuel plug. It has an identical scope base, fitted with three screws and two taper pins that’s numbered “3495473” on the underside. The rifle comes with an authentic blue, WWII Griffin & Howe scope mount numbered “3512408”; it seems the final two digits have been over stamped. The mount is fitted with a late WWII M82 sniper scope, marked on the left facet: “TELESCOPE M82/SERIAL NO. 40743/STOCK NO. F001-0084688”. It has the usual “Post” crosshair reticle and an authentic rubber eyecup. It is fitted with walnut handguard set and a walnut buttstock. The inventory is fitted with a really good authentic WWII “K-Line” stamped leather-based cheekpad. The inventory is stamped on the left facet with boxed “SA/NFR” cartouche and a circled “P” proof within the grip space. It comes with a inexperienced internet sling and the early milled, “SA M2″ Flash Hider. It has a light gray parkerized metal finish.”
Lot 458: U.S. Springfield Armory M1C Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle – Desirable World War Ii U.S. Springfield Armory M1C Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle with M82 Telescopic Sight and Matching Numbered Bracket. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved November 15, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/82/458/us-springfield-armory-m1c-semiautomatic-sniper-rifle.
