Looking at getting a all numbers matching with paperwork from CMP with the crate and bayonet.
First time buying something like this can someone tell me what I'm looking at?
At the OP:
IMHO - if it’s a single rifle crate - it’s a recent display case with NO historical value, it’s nice but not authentic WW2. James River Armory, the commercial Springfield Armory have offered “rebuilt” Garnds in the past twenty years with a display crate for the rifle.
“Numbers matching” generally means the receiver serial number and the barrel date are in alignment with the age of both. Everything else on the rifle has a drawing number that changed over time as mods were made - most parts had a manufacture name on them, but that doesn’t equate to “right” in all cases - as many times as these rifles were leased and sold - odds of a fully correct rifle are lottery winning high.
