Second thoughts on some things said:
"Original barrel" M1 rifles...on the one hand, the barrels aren't serialized to receivers, even on M1 rifles that were brand new. All you'd need is a "correct year" SA barrel, and believe it or not they are available. No worth the effort IMO, but available. On the other hand, Uncle Sam re-barreled M1 rifles regularly. People tend to think of old firearms as old cars, and that they need 'original parts', and that's perfectly acceptable and very valid. But military firearms are something that went through arsenal rebuild as a fact of life in the overwhelming majority of cases. Old rev parts were replaced with new rev parts, that's part of the history. On the third hand
, concerning Militaria, people get very caught up in 'matching numbers', to the detriment of the hobby, in my opinion, in he regard that they sometimes forget that if a piece of gear didn't match or wasn't 'available according to the book", then it still would have been issued if it were on the shelf. I'm not saying that barrel would have been available, by the way, just making a general comment
Most M1s in military service became mixmasters, to my way of thinking. No-one ever said "That H&R has an SA bolt, you maggot!"
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If it were converted back to the original round, bear in mind that the original round was not '30-06'; it was for a certain branch in the 30-06 family tree. Steel doesn't get stronger with age and loads have changed since 1937