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My M1 Garand from CMP finally arrived
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<blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 2335144" data-attributes="member: 7157"><p>An HRA would likely have been similar to your SA, as it would have been produced during the same time frame. But as you said, it's kind of a crap shoot as to what you do get through mail order. Currently, the CMP is working through a batch of US Army depot returns (as opposed to overseas returns), so yours probably is one of those. Had I known that would happen, I'd have put in an order for several of those! As it is, any order I place now would be drawn from who knows what source they have on deck at the time. </p><p></p><p>The "bouncing around" just means the CMP is really swamped with mail orders, and they haven't had a chance to build up a reserve of each maker / grade to offer for sale. They don't have enough people to uncrate, sort, clean, and grade all the rifles they still have in inventory - they're simply sending most of what they do have straight to mail orders, at the best speed possible. It happens that the next batch of crates will only have HRA's, or SA's, and the CMP has to fill orders as best as they can. Occasionally, they'll accumulate a dozen or two WRA's, and those go to the stores, which happened about two weeks ago. Those rifles disappeared pretty fast, too.</p><p></p><p>My guess is the CMP has 12-18 months of supply left, barring any other significant infusions of rifles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Perplexed, post: 2335144, member: 7157"] An HRA would likely have been similar to your SA, as it would have been produced during the same time frame. But as you said, it's kind of a crap shoot as to what you do get through mail order. Currently, the CMP is working through a batch of US Army depot returns (as opposed to overseas returns), so yours probably is one of those. Had I known that would happen, I'd have put in an order for several of those! As it is, any order I place now would be drawn from who knows what source they have on deck at the time. The "bouncing around" just means the CMP is really swamped with mail orders, and they haven't had a chance to build up a reserve of each maker / grade to offer for sale. They don't have enough people to uncrate, sort, clean, and grade all the rifles they still have in inventory - they're simply sending most of what they do have straight to mail orders, at the best speed possible. It happens that the next batch of crates will only have HRA's, or SA's, and the CMP has to fill orders as best as they can. Occasionally, they'll accumulate a dozen or two WRA's, and those go to the stores, which happened about two weeks ago. Those rifles disappeared pretty fast, too. My guess is the CMP has 12-18 months of supply left, barring any other significant infusions of rifles. [/QUOTE]
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