Good price for 1942 garand receiver w/barrel?

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bbman25

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Need a receiver to complete my build, I found this really nice receiver with a barrel on gunbroker for 450 or buy it now for 499. thats right at the edge of my price range.. but i can sell the barrel i have and make some money back since this comes with one already installed and i can skip the gunsmith charge.

second option is this super early war receiver, 56k range that hes asking 149 for as a starting bid. only issue with this is supposedly there is a small crack in the firing pin bridge.. which i can have welded or TIG weld myself.
really like the very early number.

so say 499 for a nice, deifnitely reliable receiver

or probaby around 250 or so (after bidding is done) for a potentially broken one that i can fix myself.

the rifle build is just to get into things, its going to be a shooter or a display rifle. the low number is very interesting to me.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=480280891

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=481141247
 
As you can still get shooter Garands for $630 from CMP, anything past $250 for a receiver seems overpriced. At those prices I wonder if people buy CMP guns and strip them for parts.
 
Not a good idea to base your decision on the quality (or lack thereof) of a barrel you have not seen on a receiver you have not seen. You could pay the money and end up with a nice barrelled action or with a piece of cut and weld junk with a shot-out barrel.

Jim
 
No amount of welding will make a cracked receiver worth more than a paperweight. Building a rifle on that receiver will give you a rifle nobody will ever want to buy after spending a large pile of money in it. Should you ever decide or need to sell it.
 
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