While millions of Garand rifles were made during the WWII era, the 1950s guns made by International Harvester at their Evansville, Indiana plant are some of the rarest and most collectible. All 337,623 IHC M1s were made during the Korean War era and immediately after. Further, its been proposed that these guns, held in arsenal the longest, were among the least used and most sent as aid to overseas allies in the 1960s, making them that much harder to find.
But it seems the Civilian Marksmanship Program has located a stack of them in their stockpile.
CMP has a very limited quantity of M1 Garand, IHC Rack Grade Rifles available (RM1IHCR). These rifles will be offered by mail order , sold as is, with no exchanges. The rifles are rack grade (rough but functional) and have been test fired. We will begin accepting orders 11/16/15. Any orders received prior to this date will be returned. Once your order is received in house, they are put into a container with all orders received that day. We DO NOT time stamp orders. We have approximately 105 rifles available. They are $760 each. Each customer is limited to one rifle. Due to the limited quantity and popularity of IHC rifles, if your order is not in house on 11/16/15, more than likely it will not be filled. We expect these rifles to sell out the first day.
