While meeting a collector in Arizona a number of years ago who had a number of these rifles, I casually mentioned I too had a carbine with an odd serial number. They have now all moved on, but the rifle although taking up a cubby at the back of my safe, still brings back fond memories of the years my Dad would climb the hills and valleys of our tiny county chasing the elusive white tailed deer that populated our forests. It was given to my Dad in the late 50's, as a gift from a old collector who lived in our quiet little lake shore Northern Michigan tow, for all the kindnesses my father would showered upon the man and his wife. Also in the dusty far corner of the safe, behind these graceful war relics stood a short but deadly rifle which was also a weapon of a long ago war, the sister to these historical MI Garand's. Whenever I take them out from my safe to admire their magnificence and would try to imagine the man who had carried it. I've been collecting MI battle rifles for a number of years.
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