picked up a "salvage" grade 1917 back in 09 at the cmp north store after coming home from Afghanistan. While ti was priced as salvage grade it was complete and functions perfectly.that's good.
the bad- the original 1918 bore is only about fair with the most significant area of roughness a few inches from the muzzle.
Tried shooting it with my standard M-1 load and it wasn't holding better than about 10 inches at 100 yards. seen some threads over on cmp stating they shoot heavy bullets better. tried some 200's yesterday and it did help but was still at best a 6 inch grouper- any suggestions or do we relegate this to the junk heap?