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Old 11-16-2017, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by AFJuvat View Post
It is using a m14 upper handguard.

The records concerning actual serials used in the T26 program are not recorded. Experemental ones wouldnhavw has a T prefix for a serial.

There were only 200 real ones made, and most of them were changed back into regular Garands or they were destroyed.

There have been far more 'fake' tanker garands made then the number of real ones that ever existed. Assume any tanker garand you see to be a reproduction without documented paperwork from the original springfield armory.
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