The CMP brought a number of these real sniper rifles to the market over the years through lotteries, auctions, and open sales which is where this one came from in 1996. So original Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) paper work is critical in order to bring the full value of the rifles when determining the worth of a specific rifle. There is no known listing of serial numbers or special markings on the rifles themselves to determine if they are real. The hard part about these rifles is that there are no easy ways to determine if they are real military sniper variants or if they are well made reproductions using factory parts. In terms of collectibility, they are both very collectible sniper rifles, with the more rare early M1Cs bringing the most money due to the scarcity of the rifles. The M1 Garand was the first semi-automatic battle rifle adopted by the US Military and when the need arose for snipers during the second world war, the weapon engineers quickly got to work on a sniper variant, which ultimately became the M1C and M1D rifles. He M1C and M1D are one of the classic US sniper rifles of the 20th century and while it did not see much combat during World War 2, it did see combat during the Korean War and was tested out and used sparingly during the early years of Vietnam.
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