RE: sent ot out to mil-tech
Like DiyJ98 said, go with CMP.
I got taken once also. I bought an '03 springfield at a gunshow at what I thought was a decent price at $400. When I took it apart, I noted that the handguard was badly cracked, and the stock was extensively cracked also, but only could be seen when the barreled action was removed. I had procured a "new" remington 2-groove barrel for it and took it to a smith to have it rebarrelled. The smith told me that the reciever had been previously "demilled" meaning that the bolt stop had been welded up, and a barrel had been tackwelded to the receiver by the government to be used as a drill rifle. In his words, some unscrupulous basement gunsmith had carefully ground off the welds, rebarreled it, reparkerized it and resold it as a functioning rifle. He said luckily the welding on the receiver was very thin and it would be safe to shoot, its just that I paid more than 4x as much as the rifle was worth.[:@] Curses on the man who sold it to me, and shame on me for not doing my homework first.
Bottom line is, that pretty much the only way you can guarantee that you won't buy a piece of junk is to go through CMP. Whenever I see a bunch of Garands on a rack at a gunshow, the first though that goes through my mind is the guy bought them from CMP for a couple hundred dollars less as a 'Rack grade" rifle and is selling them at a premium price.
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