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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 1668165" data-attributes="member: 7157">OK, I spoke with a friend who was involved in the arsenal rebuilds circa 1966, and here's what he had to say about the topic of finishes and rebuilds:So there's no simple answer that will fit all rifles.  It'd have to take an inspection of the rifle by someone "in the know" to determine whether or not a given rifle was a rebuild, and even then, there will be different shades of certainty in the answer.  That having been said, if you got a WW2 M1 straight from the CMP that was billed as a Service Grade, and the finish was uniform across all the metal, it would probably be safe to assume you've gotten an arsenal rebuild, especially if the barrel was post-war dated.  Now if it's a post-war M1, determining whether or not it's original or a rebuild gets fuzzy.</blockquote>