Collector Grades

[Roadkingtrax]

Nice to see someone comment on this.

Waiting for the poop-storm.

Comment #7
http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=59409

[seaninmich]

or #8! :)

[seaninmich]

"The question has never been, "Does the CMP build correct rifles?" That is a known fact, never disputed."

[timshufflin]

"never disputed"

Laughing my butt OFF! Orest should indeed have been a politician. I just talked to another builder on this very day and the two of us were talking about M1D's. It is our fondest wish that we could get away with putting real D barrels on old D rifles and they would be called real D's. Nope though, only the CMP can do this because, somehow, the general public gives the CMP a GIANT pass in this regard.

[timshufflin]

If the CMP replaces EVEN one part, that rifle is NO LONGER an ORIGINAL rifle. I know it is still correct but the CMP correct grade rifle implies originality as well. I could build correct grade rifles all day long in the 5 million serial number range and hand out my own certificate but it will not garner the same weight as the CMP's "correct grade" rifle. It will not because the CMP correct grade implies originality as well.

[toolman]

Truth said^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!

[timshufflin]

Post #17

Today, 08:00 PM
ihcfan55
CMP Customer

Join Date: May 2010
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Posts: 71

Wake up and smell the coffee! We have been through all of the windage knob swapping observations before, and many other observers said that, yes, the knobs were changed out. So, my observations were correct. And, any time you have a 70 percent part on a 99 percent rifle, the part has been changed out.

CMP has been (and still is) still changing out the knobs - I just wish they would stop wasting their time, and breaking up original rifles. If you think I am making an ****** out of myself, so be it.

Oh, one other thing: if you buy a "collector grade" when CMP offers them, it might be some armorer's version of what he *thinks* a collector grade is, not the actual rifle that came from the factory.
Last edited by ihcfan55; Today at 08:12 PM.

[seaninmich]

this is worse than finding out about santa

[Roadkingtrax]

this is worse than finding out about santa

What the hell are you talking about? He's real!!!

Santa and Collector/Correct grades....what's next? My President isnt a US citizen?$clapper$

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[sandsnow]

CMP has ruined the M1 collector market. One day people will realize the rifles they really wanted are the ones that the CMP relplaced parts on.

[Punch The Clown]

My take on the subject.

Quote:
Originally Posted by PRC148 View Post
Interesting, I just stripped my HRA with original 8-54' barrel (throat in the black) with awesome GAW wood.
Only Post-war parts were the SA Trigger group, Follower rod, HRA Op rod, HRA elevating knob, DRC windage knob and sight base (type 2b packed full of grease and seeds). All other parts are WWII. This doesn't seem like an early mfg but it would be an easy correction. Should I?

I guess you just busted up a "Correct" HRA. Pass the Kool-Aid. Until someone shows me an invoice from HRA for the purchase of Wartime and Post-War SA parts and vice-versa I will continue to believe that HRA's came with HRA parts, and SA's with SA parts. My 5.8 was all SA with the exception of the gas plug and the complete trigger group. I switched them out. I just can't convince myself that the rifle was "Correct" in that configuration.
Yes there are known exceptions dealing with receivers.