shown here with my CMP Rack Grade M1.
It was built on a CMP M1 receiver that I bought at CMP's Camp Perry store. I had Tim Shufflin build it with a Numrich Tanker Kit; Shuf also parkerized the whole gun.
Altough regarded as a "fantasy" gun, in addition to the few "officially" built tankers, in the Pacific Theater some M1 Garands were built in theater but like the others, they didn't make it either.
For the record, using CMP .30 M2 Ball it is a good shooter and recoil/muzzle blast isn't an issue.