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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 2021657" data-attributes="member: 7157">OK, here's a couple.  The WRA/GHD, crossed-cannons, and RA-P (arsenal rebuild) cartouches on the stock of my 95% correct 1943 WRA M1 Garand; the stock was in "as received" condition and was since cleaned up.  This was a correction project on a WRA/WRA M1 that I got from the CMP two years ago; took me the better part of a year to get the correct parts including an uncut WRA op rod.  Note the WRA-marked safety and lead-dipped receiver.<img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i738.photobucket.com_albums_xx29_Perplexed0_M1s_WRA_20M1_20Garand_DSC_0399w.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The correct WRA lock-bar rear sight set on the same rifle.  Note the open arrowheads and machining marks on the windage knob, and the rounded ends on the lock-bar, all characteristic of mid-war WRA production.<img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i738.photobucket.com_albums_xx29_Perplexed0_M1s_WRA_20M1_20Garand_DSC_0559w.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And the uncut WRA op rod.  This is what took me the longest time to find, and I was lucky to come across it at a Wanenmacher show, buried in a pile of op rods.  I just about had a coronary when I unearthed it <img src="/images/smilies/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" />  Note the circular WRA proof mark on the barrel, just aft of where the barrel narrows down, and the correct follower rod (short-fork, not visible).<img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i738.photobucket.com_albums_xx29_Perplexed0_M1s_WRA_20M1_20Garand_DSC_0555w.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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