Bought a complete set up National Match "Everything" Rare

[Rick B]

[Roadkingtrax]

HRA M14 Hammer?

[Chaz]

And here I thought the NM/2 I recently acquired was the cat's meow. I am envious. But to more important things: Rick, I find your photos excellent and crisp. Are you using a tripod and lens/tube extenders for those closeups?

[da gimp]

Congratulations on picking up both rifles Rick, ya done good kid.

[Rick B]

Thanks guys and Chaz, I use Macro on a Cannon S3IS Powershot that is about 6 years old. No tripod on these just steady hands today. Rick B

[Cosine26]

Rick B.
I raised the question about the Front Sight being marked “NM over .062” on the left side. Now that I have Canfield’s book, THE M1 GARAND RIFLE, I see a picture of similarly marked front sight on page 562. I never saw one but it seems to be authentic. The marking in the picture looks like the marking on your front sight.
FWIW

[2111]

Rick B.
I raised the question about the Front Sight being marked “NM over .062” on the left side. Now that I have Canfield’s book, THE M1 GARAND RIFLE, I see a picture of similarly marked front sight on page 562. I never saw one but it seems to be authentic. The marking in the picture looks like the marking on your front sight.
FWIW

I had never seen a front sight marked like that either. The one pictured in Canfields book is a bit different in that the stamping is much crisper. On Ricks the tops of the N & M appear rounded and no decimal point before 062. I suppose it is just a different contractor. Guess I just have not seen enough SA built NM rifles.

[John Rippert]

That NM is Be-you-ti-full!


The gas trap ain't bad either.

[Cosine26]

Just as a matter interest,, what is unusual about the HRA hammer?

[2111]

Other than it is for an M14, nothing. It works just as well with the M1 but I doubt SA would have installed it on a NM rifle in 1962. An armorer at Perry or someplace, at a latter date, may have when doing some trigger work.

[Cosine26]

Hi 2111
How do you identify that as an M14 Hammer? Just curious.
I have a NM M1 Trigger group that came off a 1962 or 1963 NM M1 that has a HR hammer. It is the TG that I asked about in another post.
The big difference that I see is how it is annotated.
On the NM TG it is marked :
HRA 5546008
The spare M1 hammers that I have are marked:
5546008 HR A or G
In the first case the HRA is before the part number and in the second case the HR follows the part number with either an "A" or "G"
FWIW

[2111]

Based on everything I have read HRA produced two hammers for the M1 Garand that were used in regular production. HRA 5546008 which is the most common and 5546008 HRA N usually found on late HRA rifles along with the HRA 5546008.

Those marked HR A or G were made after M1 production had ended and were used by HRA in the M14's they produced. I would suppose that HRA also had a contract for spare parts, hammers included, but I don't know that for a fact.