The Garand Collectors Association

Limited number of various issues of The GCA Journal are now available.

Click here to learn how to purchase

We have enabled the Check Feature on the GCA online store.

But only the manual form of it.

You can place all orders through the GCA online store, and choose the payment type of “Check”.

Print out your receipt twice, one for your records, and one to send in with your check or money order.

Please put your order number and GCA # on your check or money order.
(If a new member, just joining, no need to put your GCA member # on the payment)

Orders will be shipped after personal checks have cleared.

Please mail your check or money order with a copy of your order receipt to:

Garand Collectors Association
P.O. Box 7498
N. Kansas City, MO 64116

We will soon by doing away with all the PDF Order Forms on the website.

As we work our way through the pages of the GCA website, all adverts on the website will be changed to point to the particular page in the GCA online store.

PDF of the  Table of Contents for  “ Best of the GCA Journal Book 3 ” is now available.
Click here….

Updated: Results posted on the CMP Website.

Click on the link to view the posted results.

http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/report_eventAward.cgi?matchID=7546&eventID=1&awardID=1

Brad Campbell, California (L) shoots in the GCA Match at Phoenix, Arizona.
Scoring is Jake Spawn, Goodyear, Arizona (R).
Photo by Jim Spawn

CMP sales booth at GCA Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
Photo by Jim Spawn

2011 Garand Match winners.
L-R:
GCA’s Steve Rutledge, Chairman of the CMP Board of Directors Judith Legerski, Michael Miller, High Senior, Robert Rathburn, Garand Match Winner, and Orest Michaels, COO of CMP.
Photo by Jim Spawn

Winner of the GCA Rifle Raffle.
L-R:
GCA Directors Jim Adell, Steve Rutledge, winner Mark D’ Aversa, and Tony Pucci.
Photo by Jim Spawn

GCA Founder Daniel Richard “Dick” Deane passed away on Monday, September 19th, after a long battle with cancer.

His family held a memorial service on Monday, September 26th at 5:00 PM at the First Christian Church in Richmond, KY.  A celebration of his life was held in the Fellowship Hall following the service.

You can now purchase the  ” The Best of the GCA Journal Book 3  “  via the GCA’s online store.

Book 1 and 2 are still available as well.

http://www.thegca.org/store/botgcaj.html

Renew online in the GCA Store…

http://www.thegca.org/store/membership_renewals.html

Or download the forms to mail or fax in…

http://www.thegca.org/membership

It’s time to renew your GCA Membership!!  Here are some tips to speed up the process for everyone.

As you all know, GCA Memberships expire on September 1. Renewal forms are distributed with the Summer edition of the GCA Journal each year, so if you’ve received your Summer ’11 GCA Journal, you should have received a renewal form. Or, you may renew your membership online at our website, www.thegca.org, under The GCA Store tab. Either way, you will receive a paid invoice (receipt) with your new membership card at the bottom via first class mail. If you renew online, you will also receive an email confirmation when the transaction successfully processes.

With close to 15,000 members now, renewal season has become quite a task. This is part of the reason renewal notices are sent out early – to help spread out the incoming renewals and improve the overall work flow. Here are some steps you can follow to help make things go more quickly for everyone!

1) If you are mailing in your renewal with a check, money order or credit card payment, be sure to submit a completed and signed official GCA renewal form with your payment. You should have received one with your Summer GCA Journal or you can always print one from our website listed above.

2) Credit Card payments must include the CVV (Card Verification Value) code. That is the 3 digit code from the back of your credit card next to the signature line. We cannot run your credit card without this code! If the billing address is different from the mailing address, the billing address must be included as well to avoid your card being declined. We can only accept Visa and Mastercard.

3) Be sure to complete and sign your renewal form even if you are paying by check. Checks are separated from envelopes early on during processing and cannot be used as a reference. If you do not fill out your renewal form you will go to the back of the line until the rush subsides and someone has time to correspond with you.

4) Please do not tape your envelopes closed. Every envelope is opened by hand, one at a time. Remember….we have thousands of these envelopes to open. If we have to “fight” with tape we will most likely just go on to the next envelope and come back to yours when we have more time.
5) Please remember that we have a small team in our office. It will take some time to get through all of the renewals, plus process new memberships and orders coming in simultaneously. Please be patient….it might take a few weeks to get to your new membership card back. But rest assured that we won’t let you miss a single issue of the GCA Journal!!

We look forward to processing your GCA Membership renewal and as always….Thank you for your continued support of the GCA!!

Two new M1 Garand National Match articles have been authored by Robert W. Seijas and posted on the GCA website.

M1 National Match Summary

and

Evolution of National Match Rifles – Springfield Armory Production

Click on the links above to go to the articles, or find them in the navigation menu on the left of the page.

The GCA grant to the M1 for Vets organization this year:

Left to right:Jim Adell, GCA Camp Perry Director of Events; Andrew Hall GCA Financial Aid Director; John O’Shea M1 for Vets founder.

Jim Adell is a GCA Board member, a Distinguished High Power shooter and former OIC of the US Navy Reserve Shooting team. He still actively competes and coaches the GCA teams at Camp Perry. Middle is GCA board member Andrew Hall, who chairs the GCA Grant Committee. Right side is JJ O’Shea, founder of M1s For Vets. Steve Rutledge and Andrew Hall traveled to Camp Perry to present the check as well as compete in the JCG match.

Left to right:Kedrick Doezema, USMC, M1 Vet Awardee;John O’Shea, M1 for Vets founder.

Left to right:Jim Adell, GCA Camp Perry Director of Events; Steve Rutledge, GCA President and Managing Director; Andrew Hall GCA Financial Aid Director.

Renewal Policy, Updated Summer of 2010.

The September 2008 American Rifleman magazine features a major article on the “Top Ten Infantry Rifles” of all time.  It comes as no surprise to us that the M1 Garand was Number 1.  The article concludes the M1 description with:

” … it was John Garand who caught lightning in a bottle and harnessed into an earthbound version of the hammer of Thor, the M1.  And it was this, the greatest infantry rifle of all time, that helped change the course of human history.”

The rest of the list was:

2. Kalashnikov AK-47

3. Mauser 98

4. M16

5. 1853 Enfield Rifle-Musket

6. Lee-Enfield

7. StG 44

8. FN FAL

9. Dreyse 1841

10.  Henry Rifle

Click here for the Writers Guide for some good tips.