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The rifle’s trigger assembly (left) features radical changes from that of a standard M1 Garand (right). You can also see the receiver is drilled and tapped for a scope side-mount. On the rifle’s left side, we can see the clip latch has been fitted with a curious projection, a thumb piece that activates the clip latch now serving as a bolt release and bolt hold-open, necessary because the Garand’s follower and associated parts are deleted. The Garand’s clip latch has been modified to act as a bolt release and bolt hold-open. A closer look reveals an unusually figured walnut stock under a bright finish, a stainless steel barrel, and a magazine catch and forward guide protruding below. Without the magazine in place, this “T20” or “M14 Garand” appears at first glance no different than any other M1, except for the recoil pad. A long magazine catch and forward magazine guide are visible on the converted Garand. These converted rifles represent Garand’s T20 concept surviving, like the M1A, as semi-auto-only rifles, and the rifle presented here is apparently one of that commercial family. Beginning in the 1950s, a few enterprising gunsmiths like Juan Erquiaga converted customer-supplied M1s to accept 20-round box magazines and shoot the new 7.62 NATO cartridge. The post-war surplus of M1 rifles soon became available to NRA members through the Army’s Director of Civilian Marksmanship program. Sorry, an error occurred and we could not sign you up. Garand went on to convert his rifle in 1944 to select-fire and accept a detachable box magazine this T20 model eventually morphed into the M14 and fired the new 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge decades after he first offered a box mag design. At first glance, the modified Garand looks much like a standard model - except for that magazine. 276 caliber cartridge and ordered the eight-round en bloc clip M1 rifle for the then-current M2 Ball. Army eventually declined Garand’s superior firepower box magazine design and a proposed. In design and testing of many prototypes that would occupy Garand and Springfield Armory for 17 years, a vacillating Ordnance Department and U.S. His T1919 model (“T” indicates “Test”) of that year had a detachable magazine, and a version of his T1920 model could also take detachable magazines. Garand and the development of the M1 Garand rifle, click here.) M1 Garand at top, Springfield Armory M1A at bottom, and the T20-style Garand in the middle. 30, M1” for the government’s Springfield Armory indeed featured detachable box magazines. Garand’s first prototypes of his now iconic “Rifle, Caliber.
FED ORD M14 RIFLE UPGRADE
Most shooters familiar with the subject view the M14 rifle as a 1950s-era 20-round box-magazine upgrade over the 1936 M1 Garand’s eight-round en bloc clip. With Garands flooding the market in the post-World War II years, skilled gunsmiths set up a cottage industry of modifying them. Government’s Springfield Armory, perhaps only a few hundred (or at most, a few thousand) commercial M1 rifles modified to include M14 features are in the hands of individuals today. However, the most obvious change was the switch from the Garand’s en-bloc clip system to the M14’s detachable box magazine system.Ĭomparatively few rifles representing the intermediary steps between the M1 and the M14 exist today while museums have a handful of examples from the U.S.
FED ORD M14 RIFLE UPDATE
The M14 represented a modernized update to the M1 Garand, with numerous upgrades and enhancements. and adapted to use detachable box magazines. Shown here is a gunsmith-modified M1 Garand converted to. The T20 was a magazine-fed modification of the M1 Garand. While the M1A is a direct, semi-automatic-only version of the M14 military rifle, the M14 evolved from the M1 Garand in an unusual process - both military and commercial. M1A, there was the M14, and before that there was the M1 Garand.