What's the effect around the markings? Maybe a pixelated effect to the image affecting the area around the markings?Originally Posted by Punch The Clown
Nice heel stamp
What's the effect around the markings? Maybe a pixelated effect to the image affecting the area around the markings?Nice heel stamp
I over-enlarged it. The original is very sharp.
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I used an old digital camera for the pics.
Thanks for sharing. Any other pictures you'd take of the mag well and barrel would be greatly appreciated, also your muzzle device.
Some idle thoughts about Mr. Arnold his ventures in firearms manufacture:
Golden State which was already or became National Ordnance and then merged with Brenner's Federal Ordnance(coincidentally in the same building in South El Monte).
Some of Arnold's were based on the 59E/SL but had hand-guards missing from the very front. He did a straight BM-59 Ital type. He also did one that had a long M14 style flash hider, except it had been, what is the word I am looking for..... turned with a taper attachment. Oddly, he did that same type flash hider, except cut it out and i was three prong like M16A1.
I'd say 70% performed from the factor with reasonable satisfaction, however given wear, tear, and the DPO(dreaded previous owners)- I think maybe 33-40% are out there and functional. So 33%-40% of the original 70% functional- 28% still intact and usable.
Arnold was also bad to use a 1903 barrel welded to a Garand barrel. Remarkable some of those will shoot acceptably- I mean they go bang with no drama, kill a target at 100yds. After that, fling rounds willy nilly.
Thanks for sharing.
The best part:
PB.jpg
Maybe Mike Baker can assist on value and such? I hope he's still high and dry!
Eli
I think there's some confusion between 'Golden State' rewelds and the factory Berettas imported by 'Santa Fe' as pictured here.
Eli
Is there? I’ve only seen perhaps 2 or 3 golden state welded receivers.
Does yours have the markings as shown and is it in cal .30 M1 or 7.62NATO?
The photos you see in this thread are my rifle. It is chambered in Caliber .30 M1 as stamped on the receiver heel.
Last edited by garandguy10; 09-28-2019 at 01:41 AM.
Since the pics were posted by others I didn't think it was yours. Are all the parts marked like the USGI parts with PB (Pietro Beretta) instead of the SA, WRA, HRA, IHC?
Very nice rifle though, definitely a keeper.
There's a little snippit over on the M14 forum that mentions the Santa Fe M1 but is mostly about the BM59.
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