NEW! Refurbished M1 Garands from RTI vs CMP M1 Garands 

I think the CMP is the way to go. Yeah, it's a bit time consuming, but well worth it. I got a 43 Springfield with a 46 barrel and all original parts. Plus you get an amazing hard case, a clip, and it gets shipped right to your house. I even requested a WWII Springfield manufacture and they granted it at no cost.

I got an M1 CMP this year. A bucket list rifle for me. I wish I would have had the money for more as they ran out of service grade about a week after my order was processed. That’s ok because I did the sticky note deal “WW2 good barrel “ The rifle I received was SA 6/42 with an old wood stock SN 1,3XX,XXX, barrel was excellent. Couldn’t be happier with the old girl. Accurate af and beautiful. Best $750 I ever spent

Excellent comparison. I refuse to pay RTI's prices for the quality of their imports. Best of luck to anyone that takes that plunge. I'll keep an eye on the secondary market with pictures/details of what I'm actually purchasing.

I bought a completely worn out import and had it refurbished by the former armorer for the US Army marksmanship team. The guy is a legend in the M1 Garand community. I bought a CMP "Special" Rack Grade that is also refurbished. The CMP is far more affordable. My Special Rack had zero pitting.

When I saw RTI had listed their rifles was hoping you’d respond and ya certainly didn’t disappoint. Appreciate the analysis!

Just sent out my paperwork for a rack special. Wanted a Field grade but they sold out a day or so before hand. Your video helped me through the process.

RTI charges a LOT more for their M1’s than CMP, but I guess a benefit is that you can have a little more choice with RTI than CMP.

How does RTI get away with their pricing and stay in business lmao

Great video. Loved the comparison, we'll thought out of comparison even the time it takes you get one from each one. Just a reminder to shoot m2 ball 30-06.so opt rods are not broken. There is another video what ammo to shoot out of the garand.

I purchased a RM1SPECIAL a few years ago (With a new stock and a new Criterion barrel). Once I got it dialed-in, it is dead a$$ accurate. One complaint, the stock was extremely dry and some work to get it done.

Making me glad I got all my Garands from the CMP back when they had Danish & Greek returns. $450 Winchesters was hard to pass up.

I have a nice m-1 and about 40 enblock's with the green g.i sling and the bayonet still looking for the mag belt and a full cleaning kit but the hunt is half the fun

I just got a Special Rack Grade Garand from the CMP Talladega two weeks ago. I live about 2 1/2 hours away

Got my field grade with a 1 muzzle rating and a 2 throat rating, the M1 is in fantastic condition for a field grade, no rust and looks great after field stripped. Got it for 650, what a deal. CMP is the way to go.

Why would you buy one from RTI when the CMP is still around.

The 'expert' ones seem like the worst deal of all of the options. Like they take lone receivers and frankenstein them together

To each their own. For me personally it was easier to go through RTI than jump through all the hoops with CMP. Also as of now the CMP rifles are drying up, rising in price to the point that it is cheaper/easier to order from RTI, despite the risk of getting a lemon.

Just purchased a m1 garand from CMP took about five weeks and paid 1150 for mine plus it came in a customized case and will be buying another one as soon as I can afford it

For M1 Garand ammo, stick to 150-ish grain, don’t put regular hunting ammo through it - the pressure maybe too much for it.

I bought a CMP sourced Garand 5 years back from an older gentleman who had the hobby of ordering and tinkering with CMP Garands. The M1 metal had been dropped into a nice, smooth unblemished modern replacement stock which had been very lightly stained and properly oiled ON THE EXTERIOR. Sure looked nice! I'd told the elderly fellow I wanted a SHOOTER with a good barrel, in spec gas system and bolt, a good tight lockup. That I was not a collector, did not care about "all original & matching" (why bother when they're selling metal stamp kits on ebay to fake that for virtually EVERY rifle of interest to USA people? And even a range of spray paints to fake the different metal finishes?!). So, for $675 I got a Garand this old fellow assured me was functional, he'd fired one 8 round clip through it and it ran, ejected & locked open when empty & etc., was a 2 for throat, 1 for muzzle. I fired it for function check too, a clip of 70's HXP Greek ammo I had got from Dillon back in the 1990s. It ran... Apparently, that HXP was loaded just a bit hotter because, Greece still used/loved the Browning machinegun and wanted it to run even when dirty from killing lots and lots of filthy Turkish swine or annoying Greek hippy college students complaining about living in a fascist dictatorship 30 odd years after Mussolini and Hitler had bit the big one? 30-06 at high end of M2 spec was preferred for killing such invaders and detractors, the junta didn't worry too much about higher pressure at Garand gas port. Every OTHER "M2" FMJ I put in that Garand short cycled at least a few times out of 8 rounds. None would eject clip and lock back the bolt reliably. These insufficiently gassed rounds included what were reputed to be GOOD modern reproduction Garand ammo from Hornady, PPU, S&B plus several CMP sourced batches of Lake City surplus, all of which performed respectably in my 1903 Springfield and M1917 Eddystone. When one re stocks a Garand, one must consider that sinuous op rod and how it moves. It's JUST shy of contacting most pre inletted CMP replacement stocks (on a good day). On a bad day, or when it's a little more humid than it was where/when they inletted the stock, the op rod can rub on interior of stock, lose energy and cause the short cycle issues I experienced. So after a couple of days and about 20 rounds of coating op rod with red colored grease, firing a round, removing action, inspecting for where the grease got transferred to the stock and CAREFULLY, SLOWLY shaving away the reddish, greasy contact areas, she ran right! Then I sanded out all the tool marks, slightly deepening my cut out area thereby and coated interior of stock with a 50:50 mix of bees wax and mineral oil. Good luck with your re stocked Garand. This RTI business reminds me of Mitchell's Mausers, half assed spiff job rifles that look good enough to extract a premium price from rubes and noobs...

Don't do the Ian Macullum I'm-so-smart "Garrand" thing. 5 million GIs including my grandfather and father called them Garands- as do I and most people.

Too dang pricey for refurb 1400 plus wow just crazy

Man I hope I see this video before buy one from RTI . I was trying to find the way to get one from the CMP but I couldn't find a place nearby to get a membership to then be able to get one from CMP so I hope I not get screwed when I receive it. 1499 for almost new Springfield.

Back when CMP was the DCM they gave away M1s as prizes at all the DCM big bore shoots. Easnt for the best marks man, it eas a lottery that all shooters were entered in to

Thanks for the video,CMP is the way to go.

I know this is an older video and find it a bit funny with the comments about the price of these beautiful rifles . Even though this video isn’t all that old most people this day and age would feel lucky to find a nice Garand for only $1499.00 . I was just at Cabela’s a day or two ago and they had at least ten there and the price range was $2600.00 + to just under $5K . The really expensive ones were IHC & Winchester . I have two WWII Garand’s , one Springfield ( serial # on the 700,000 range with the barrel date that matches the production year ) in beautiful shape and super accurate. The other is a Winchester that is a Danish lend lease with the serial # on the heal and the stinker inside the stock with the 300 meter zero . The wood isn’t as nice and has dings and Gouges but that’s all part of its history . Barrel date on that one is in the low 50’s . Shoots good but not as tight as the Springfield . I have not looked at every part to see if they are all correct and don’t really care as I shoot them and they do it well and that’s what matters to me. Just wish I knew where they were used throughout their history . FYI , I paid under a grand for each one but I’ve had them for awhile . I would love to get the H&R & IHC to complete the collection but i want the IHC the most as my dad was a farmer back in the day and International Harvester/ Farmall tractors is what he used as did most of the family and after he retired he restored them . Miss him a lot ;(

I bought two service grade m1 Garands for 750.00 usd each.

This year I ordered and received 8 Garands from the CMP. 4 IHC service, 3 WRA field, and 1 SA service. Price was $7600 so that’s under $1000 per rifle average, and they haven’t been touched by RTI crooks and butchers. Clear and easy choice.

New Garand guy here! I was just wondering, what are you recommendations on RTI? Would you recommend the M1 from them? Let me know your thoughts! :)

The Italian Receivers are nothing special unless you have all the correct Italian marked parts to go with it and wood serial numbered to the receiver. Back in the 1990's there were some Italian receivers imported by a company in Sacramento, and complete parts kits, LESS reciever, were available from AIM and maybe a few others. So you could get an "Italian Garand", with Danish Crown, as they were a contract of about 20,000 for the Danish government. BUT they were just a PARTS kit cobbled to a Breda or Beretta made receiver. All Breda parts were marked BMB or BMR, Beretta were marked BR. Serail numebr on stock matched the reciever and frequently had a "Doping Label" in the barrel channel. Some people if they had the right connections could get a receiver WITH the correctly numbered parts kits kit and have them assembled giving you a Bread or Beretta made Garand back in the 1990's worth $1200, some people even found the correct bayonets and slings as well. So what RTI id selling is an Itanial Reciver Cobbled to probbaly mostly non Italian parts and certainly the stock is not serialed to the receiver. Bredas were usually stamped on the bottom edge of the stock by the rear sling swivel, Berretta were stamped on the side of the stock. I'm sorry, but when I see the things RTI is trying to put over I think of two words FLIM FLAM. The Italians made Garands for other countries as well which may have a crest on the receiver specific to the contracting country, those can get pretty rare, especially if all "correct". FWIW a retired Danish Army Capt told me the Danish troops prefered the Breda made Garands over the Beretta, as the Bredas had better machining work, kinda like Winchester (rough), vs other USGI contractos like HRA etc.

I would go with CMP...hands down!

I wish I could get my old m14 from VN. 1966-67 USMC

Why would I want it refurbished?

Cmp should have limited rifles one per customer. Now the only way to get a cmp rifle is by paying 2gs on gun broker

With RTI past record I would not spend a cent on anything from them.

What are they smoking at rti to charge 80 bucks to ship a rifle

I am just not paying that kind of money to RTI.

This past year I saved and got the max number of $650 CMP rifles before they ran out…. Glad I did!

Trim the stash Bro!

It’s pronounced Garand not Garand.👍🏻

You can always buy a garand from Orion 7 And I guarantee you will get a great rifle

RTI operates on their own frequency with their own made up standards in my opinion, no hand select, hundreds of dollars, well sir you are not entitled to a rifle with rifling. I have not yet seen any mention of just how these Garands gauge at the muzzle and throat. The stock costs 160 bucks for brand new Walnut pretty much drop in ready hardware and all, the rest is far too suspect from RTI.

Gare-ands? I cannot watch this anymore as I don't speak Canadian, just English.

“GAEERRIND” 🙄

The CMP is the only way to go on these. No offense to RTI but there process to refurbish the firearms is nothing compared to the workers at CMP. Also the requirements to get one make this firearm that much special. Every dick and jane doesn't deserve the Garand.

cmp--rack--9 months ?? so far

I’d die get an M1 Garand for under $1000. Regardless of manufacturer

Well it makes it more attractive ot buy ann RTI but if folks just dont have that kind of money then i would have to try to go the CMP way?Actually neither way is good for me as i cant get the cost of an RTI past the wife! LOL Especially since none of them have any real historical value as service rifles in WWII by our troops? RTI is just way too expensive! Although RTI dose have a field grade with hand selet starting at 999.99! I may grab one of those?

They are all sold out bro

Cmp doesn't mark rifles

Made it to :47 before I got tired of hearing you calling it a GAR-and. Yeah I know how his name is pronounced. I also know in 20+ years of shooting vintage military matches with old school, experienced shooters who have classifications like Master and High Master, that any time a new guy came along and called his rifle a GAR-and, someone would correct him that the RIFLE is called a ga-RAND.

RTI M1 Garand are extremely over priced.

RTI has a lot of junk

Gah Rand >:(

Christ,please stop pronouncing it that way. It’s “Ga-rand”!