Full Auto M1 Garand?

[gunselman]

While attending the always enjoyable Knob Creek machine gun shoot this past weekend i saw something strange.

I saw a few guys on the main firing line with what looked to be full-auto M1 Garand.

Do these exist? There was a lot of people circling around it as it was something special.


Any thoughts?

 

[SaintsNSinners]

Was it a Garand or an M14?



Im guessing it was probably a full auto M14...

 

[gunselman]

Was it a Garand or an M14?



Im guessing it was probably a full auto M14...

There were some full-auto M14's there as well. But this looked like an M1 Garand. It used clips instead of magazines.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Did you see a T or did you see a conversion?

There are sea stories from WWII of full automatic M1s. These later would become the bridges between the M1 and M14, e.g. the T22, T27 or the T44.

 

[gunselman]

Kirk thanks so much!

From your information it looks to have been a T27 M1 Garand. See link for more information. Forgotten Firearms: Bizarre Offspring of the M1 Garand. T27 is right above the bull-pup conversion about 2/3 of the way down.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

No problem.

A lot of people forget that there are many firearms out there lost to history (look up the Browning designs that Winchester did not make, really cool). Just strange birds like me and my buddy Ian (Forgotten Firearms) pay any attention to them.

I hope you had fun at Knob Creek. It is a museum in action.

 

[mms]

also check out the bm-59, basically an italian garand converted to FA, 308 and mag fed. they are supposedly very controlable due to big muzzle break compenator that come installed

 

[Kirk Freeman]

mms, true but the BM-59 and the Title I clone were magazine fed.