My brief encounter with two amazing WWII rifles
Seeing Tuna's comment in another thread, about the first production Winchester carbine being S/N 1000000, reminded me of when my family (my grandfather, actually) owned that very gun for a short time. He earned it as payment for some landscaping work he did for a widow somewhere in or around New Haven, CT. Actually, she paid him with two rifles (the second was a very special Garand, as you can see), in a wood presentation box. My grandfather, an airman in WWII, didn't know much about these weapons. But my uncle did, and soon afterward they sold them at a gun show to a collector. This was in 1986, when I was 16. I remember being allowed to hold each of them before they were sold. Here are the photos they took of the serial numbers. These photos were the only things on the table they rented at the gun show where they were sold. I figured some of you on this forum might be interested in these pictures.
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