Originally Posted by
mtlucas0311
I think you’d get better results by simply posting those pics and one of the top of the stock (to show the bedding) on the CMP forum. That’s were a lot of Garand collectors hang out. They love critiquing Garands and there’s many there who are very knowledgeable down to the different screws used.
To be clear, when you say “a Camp Perry rifle” it’s important that you understand the rifles built there weren’t done in any official capacity. There isn’t a building on base anywhere where government armorers are, or were, building or modifying rifles for competitors. There were, and still are, guys who rent space in buildings (known as commercial row) to sell goods and build rifles for cash. Although, more than one rifle or pistol has been built down there by the military team armorers for cash on the side or a fifth of Crown Royal. There really isn’t any way to determine where the rifle was built, it may or may not have been built at Perry and from a practical standpoint it doesn’t matter. I suspect whoever sold it to you stated so because it sounds cool, and they felt it would make the rifle seem more valuable.
From your pics, I believe you have a rifle that someone accurized for service rifle competition. Hard to say what what it would sell for. It’s not really useful for service rifle because it can’t hang with AR’s, and it’s not legal for CMP fun matches (where most Garands are shot now) because it’s bedded and has NM sights. I don’t believe it carries any real collector value because it’s modified and from a common SN range. There’s guys out there that’ll dig the NM parts though, so as long as the barrel has good readings and a bright bore it’ll pry sell for a premium over a nice service grade rifle. My guess is it’d command somewhere around $1200. But that just an educated guess so don’t get too worked up over that number.
Post it on the CMP forum and see what they say.
Good luck,
Mike