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
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
CONTENTS Winchester 100075...49 by Jeff Carstens U.S. Bayonet, M1905...51 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 1...68 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 2...85 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
CONTENTS GCA Convention 2002...95 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...102 Classic Rebuild...103 M1 Rifle Cleaning Tools & Accessories...106 by Rick Gushman Name That Sight A Contest...109 by Bill Ricca and Bob Seijas M1 Springfield WW II Stock Cartouches...110 by Bruce N. Canfield In the Trenches...113 by :Phil Parmley All Ready on the Firing Line...115 by Glenn Moore The All New CMP...117 by Richard Deane Odds and Ends...118 Summer 2003 Back to Basics...121 Ten Do s and Don ts of Collecting...122 The 1940 Marine Corps Arms Tests...123 by Dr. Craig H. Tom In Search of the Original Rebuild...130 by Gary Peer In the Trenches...132 All Ready on the Firing Line...133 by Jim Adell A Previously Unknown M1 Experimental...136 by Irving W. Glater, P.E. M1 s in the Czech Republic...137 by Dan Beyer Joe Dope...139 iv
CONTENTS Fall 2003 Back to Basics...141 The Type 2 National Match, Part 1...142 Veteran Keeps Serial Numbers...147 by John Stare Understanding Technical Manuals From the 1960 s...148 by Bill Ricca Art Tuttle Update A Voice From the Past!...149 by Eric A. Nicolaus They re Still Out There! The Story of 167583...150 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...154 by Sgt. Francis G. Gleason In the Trenches...154 by Rick Gushman GCA Anniston Event Incredible Success...156 by Steve Rutledge Odds and Ends...157 by Charles Brickett Early GCA Member Passes...158 1943 Winchester Ad...159 Winter 2003 GCA at Anniston Photos...161 by Jeff Carstens They re Still Out There! Part II...162 by Steven Lipe Buy the Gun, Not the Story...165 by Bruce N. Canfield Book Review: Hatcher s Book of the Garand...166 Yes They Are Still Out There A Sequel...168 by David Kaczmarek Just For Kicks, Here s My One Garand Story...169 by Paul McAfee My Uncle Andrew Bing Billy...170 by Major Andrew B. Kuhtik One of a Kind Garand?...170 by Karl Parr v
CONTENTS GCA Team Matches, Camp Perry...171 by Frank Walter The Type 2 National Match Part 2...172 Photos Rattle Battle Teams...179 Photos - GCA Convention Reno...179 by Frank Walter Spring 2004 Back to Basics...183 Korean Ammo Warning!!!!...184 by Ben Zychalski Marine Variation of 07 Sling?...185 by Steve Miller Love Those Danish Rifles...187 by David Kaczmarek John C. Garand s Other Gun...188 by Walt Kuleck In The Trenches...191 Original SA Barrels on Late HRA Rifles...196 by Scott Kontiki Turner, Ronnie Rhino Gladson, Dave DaveE Emory Book Review: The M1 Garand: World War II...199 Joe Dope...201 Summer 2004 Back to Basics...203 by Steve Matthews It Still Happens A Benchmark Rifle...207 by Kelly Hicks and Bob Seijas In The Trenches...211 by Gary Peer The 0-66 Rifles...213 by Jeremy Cheek The Needle in the Haystack...215 by Walter J. Kuleck WW II Poster...218 by John Goscinski Book Review: The Gas Trap Garand...219 April 13, 1944 Memorandum...221 iv
CONTENTS Fall 2004 Transition to Attache International...223 by Dave McClain M81 and M82 Telescope Sights for the M1C Sniper...224 by Johnny Bell and Bob Seijas Chasing Threads...229 by Eric A. Nicolaus Low Serial Number H&R...231 by Scott A. Duff WRA M1 Rifle Production From Observed Serial Numbers...235 by Dave McClain Accurizing the Service Grade M1 Garand Rifle...236 by Thomas J. Robertson 2004 Garand Collectors Association Convention...242 by Gloria Culver Letters to the Editor...246 M1 Garand Letter Openers...247 by David Kaczmarek v