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1 The Best of The GCA Journal Volume 16, Number 1 through Volume 18, Number 4 Winter 2001 to Fall 2004 Coming in 2014! Watch for Details! Complete Your Collection of The Best of The GCA Journal books! i

2 The Best of The GCA Journal Volume 16, Number 1 through Volume 18, Number 4 Contents Winter 2001 Back to Basics...1 All Ready on the Firing Line...5 by Dick Culver Restoring Early Second Contract Winchester M1 s...8 by Todd Roper A Vet s Story...12 by Mark Goodwin Clip Loading Machine...15 by Dick Conger Odds and Ends...16 Timeline...17 Spring 2002 Back to Basics...19 Manufacturing and Accuracy Specifications for the M1C Sniper Rifle...24 by Bruce N. Canfield All Ready on the Firing Line...28 by Jim Adell AFPG Air Force Premium Grade...29 by Maj C.E. Jones In the Trenches A Tip for Stuck Screws...34 by Jeff Carstens Odds and Ends...37 Timeline...38 Summer 2002 Back to Basics...40 Two Mint WIN-13 s One Issued, One Not...41 A Dramatic Failure...44 GAW Rebuild...45 by Scott A. Duff M1 Firing Pins...47 by Bill Ricca ii

3 CONTENTS Winchester by Jeff Carstens U.S. Bayonet, M by Charles E. Garrett. Jr. T37 Flash Hiders: Originals and Cast Reproduction...52 by William Ricca In the Trenches...54 by Tom Donnell Odds and Ends...56 Timeline...57 Fall 2002 Back to Basics...59 Is it a Welded Receiver? How to Tell!...60 M1917 Ammunition Box...63 by Richard Deane All Ready on the Firing Line...64 by Brian Sights Granberry National Matches...65 by Frank Walter M1s Against Tanks: Antitank Rifle Grenades and Launchers, Part by Michael Popernack Recoil Check...73 by John J. Galka and Richard J. Maretzo, D.M.D. In the Trenches A Soldier With An M1 Rifle...74 by Jebb Harris Winter 2002 GCA Convention Photos...80 Back to Basics Shooting Technique...81 Highest Serial Number M1 Located...82 by Scott A. Duff M1s Against Tanks: Antitank Rifle Grenades and Launchers, Part by Michael Popernack Relative Value Chart...89 by Walt Kuleck In the Trenches CMP June 1944 Garand...91 by Peter Jensen All Ready on the Firing Line...93 by Brian Sights Granberry Tribute to Bob Seijas...94 by Scott Duff iii

4 CONTENTS GCA Convention by Steve Rutledge If Only it Could Speak...97 by Steve Rutledge Odds and Ends...98 GCA Convention Photos...99 Spring 2003 Back to Basics Classic Rebuild M1 Rifle Cleaning Tools & Accessories by Rick Gushman Name That Sight A Contest by Bill Ricca and Bob Seijas M1 Springfield WW II Stock Cartouches by Bruce N. Canfield In the Trenches by :Phil Parmley All Ready on the Firing Line by Glenn Moore The All New CMP by Richard Deane Odds and Ends Summer 2003 Back to Basics Ten Do s and Don ts of Collecting The 1940 Marine Corps Arms Tests by Dr. Craig H. Tom In Search of the Original Rebuild by Gary Peer In the Trenches All Ready on the Firing Line by Jim Adell A Previously Unknown M1 Experimental by Irving W. Glater, P.E. M1 s in the Czech Republic by Dan Beyer Joe Dope iv

5 CONTENTS Fall 2003 Back to Basics The Type 2 National Match, Part Veteran Keeps Serial Numbers by John Stare Understanding Technical Manuals From the 1960 s by Bill Ricca Art Tuttle Update A Voice From the Past! by Eric A. Nicolaus They re Still Out There! The Story of by Steven Lipe Book Review Bruce N. Canfield s Complete Guide to the M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine.152 All Ready on the Firing Line by Sgt. Francis G. Gleason In the Trenches by Rick Gushman GCA Anniston Event Incredible Success by Steve Rutledge Odds and Ends by Charles Brickett Early GCA Member Passes Winchester Ad Winter 2003 GCA at Anniston Photos by Jeff Carstens They re Still Out There! Part II by Steven Lipe Buy the Gun, Not the Story by Bruce N. Canfield Book Review: Hatcher s Book of the Garand Yes They Are Still Out There A Sequel by David Kaczmarek Just For Kicks, Here s My One Garand Story by Paul McAfee My Uncle Andrew Bing Billy by Major Andrew B. Kuhtik One of a Kind Garand? by Karl Parr v

6 CONTENTS GCA Team Matches, Camp Perry by Frank Walter The Type 2 National Match Part Photos Rattle Battle Teams Photos - GCA Convention Reno by Frank Walter Spring 2004 Back to Basics Korean Ammo Warning!!!! by Ben Zychalski Marine Variation of 07 Sling? by Steve Miller Love Those Danish Rifles by David Kaczmarek John C. Garand s Other Gun by Walt Kuleck In The Trenches Original SA Barrels on Late HRA Rifles by Scott Kontiki Turner, Ronnie Rhino Gladson, Dave DaveE Emory Book Review: The M1 Garand: World War II Joe Dope Summer 2004 Back to Basics by Steve Matthews It Still Happens A Benchmark Rifle by Kelly Hicks and Bob Seijas In The Trenches by Gary Peer The 0-66 Rifles by Jeremy Cheek The Needle in the Haystack by Walter J. Kuleck WW II Poster by John Goscinski Book Review: The Gas Trap Garand April 13, 1944 Memorandum iv

7 CONTENTS Fall 2004 Transition to Attache International by Dave McClain M81 and M82 Telescope Sights for the M1C Sniper by Johnny Bell and Bob Seijas Chasing Threads by Eric A. Nicolaus Low Serial Number H&R by Scott A. Duff WRA M1 Rifle Production From Observed Serial Numbers by Dave McClain Accurizing the Service Grade M1 Garand Rifle by Thomas J. Robertson 2004 Garand Collectors Association Convention by Gloria Culver Letters to the Editor M1 Garand Letter Openers by David Kaczmarek v