J.D. Steele: I will order up the Rifle back issue discussing the Springfield firing pin modification, my collection from the 1980's is incomplete.
mkbenenson: Thanks for the tip about 1922 parts, I think I have a spare bolt around here someplace, but it may not have all the internals.
I don't want to burn bandwidth by posting them here, but if you go to
http://www.google.com/patents and enter the following patent numbers you will pull up both the Garand speedlock and a slightly later Sedgley multi-piece safety pin.
Garand: 1780521
Sedgley: 2089581
If one of our modern good metalsmiths could be persuaded to run off a batch of the Garand type, I would probably buy several. I am not looking for historical authenticity, something like the David Tubb pins would work for me. I just hate the idea of building a custom rifle around an action with AWFUL lock time. I understand the game doesn't know the difference...
