If you could...M1

[RevolvingCylinder]

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[Badger Arms]

4) clip-ejection cutoff lever that keeps your clips in the gun for range work

There is a "Holbrook Device" that does that now. It's quite handy at the range and works great. Only $45.00 I believe.

I've got the Holbrook Device. IF memory serves, I bought it from Holbrook himself at a gun show in Puyallup, Washington. Then again, I could be wrong. Works alright, but it's only a workable modification. I'd love a lever like the 1903 magazine cutoff. Rock it to one side, your clip auto-ejects. Rock it to the other side and your clip stays in the gun. If the gun is locked open with a clip loaded, operating the lever ejects the clip. Cool, eh? It worked in my mind, but I'm not a designer, just a theorists.

 

[eclancy]

Gentlemen,
Some great comebacks. I said NO Detachable Mag. I would have setup a 20 round mag that was NOT Detachable but like the Garand's son the M14 loading from a stripper clip. For ready load and toping off you mag.
Thanks again guys some great input.
Clancy
ps losing ground support

 

[Eightball]

Instead of the 'one size fits none' stock, lengthen the length of pull by at LEAST one inch.

That is the ONLY thing that I would change about this GRAND old Garand!

The stock fits me perfectly.

That being said, maybe rework the stock to have a pistol grip/align the barrel directly with the stock, and give the thing a muzzle brake at the end. And maybe put it in .276 Pederson (and modify the parts that need it for that purpose).

Other than that, nothing.

 

[SoCalShooter]

change!! change!! WTH are you serious? Well then I would have asked for a pistol grip and a detacheable magazine!

 

[Neo-Luddite]

.300 Win Mag

 

[ReadyontheRight]

Knowing what we know now...a scout scope mounting platform. Such as an integrated Weaver rail.

Knowing what they knew then? A true "tanker" or carbine version. Because they are so darn cool.

 

[Limeyfellow]

Knowing what they knew then? A true "tanker" or carbine version. Because they are so darn cool.

They did this at least twice. One was a paratrooper model trialed out in the summer of 1944 which 150 were made. The other the T26 only two were made and trialed out but WW2 ended before Patton and McArthur could get ahold of them into service.

What I would change? An adjustable or self regulating gas system. A different loading method involving stripper clip fed rounds. Oh and yes the .276 Pederson would have been nice. So would one in the 50s experimental British .280 round.

 

[GarandOwner]

Id make it so when I leave 2 of them in a room together unsupervised they COULD get pregnant and produce another M1 Garand..