Garand turned into a bm59 clone. Almost

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So I finally decided, after 5 years of this project collecting dust, to mock up the parts I had. Wanted to see what it's going to look like. I guess I have to decide how close I want it to look. Maybe ill butcher an m14 mag and a trigger housing to get the look. This will still be a top fed garand so I need to keep the garand trigger group to eject the enbloc. The m14 trigger group looks like a bit of work to achieve that. Then there's getting a bm59 housing but I don't know what they look like up close. Ill have to carve out the barrel channel a bit to accommodate the follower rod and catch. Anybody know what other parts are direct drop ins to get it to look proper. The gas system looks a bit fun to achieve. Here's the mock up with all garand parts.




 
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I have one of those and it will not fit. The action of the m14 is very different below the woodline. The bm59 action is much closer to the garand by comparison. The garand slips right into that stock and the trigger group fits in perfectly as well. I could fire it as is right now with about 15 minutes of wood work.
 
No I got it from Andy in Italy years ago. I wish I'd got a trigger group from him then but because of the selector switch for FA I passed. Just a housing may be a different story.
 
The bottom is an M1A in an M14E2 stock - at the top is as close to a unrestricted BM as you can get - but uses M14 mags.....
 
Jeez, I recall looking at a Springfield Armory catalogue that offered NEW BM59's. I did seriously consider buying one, but we were raising a family back then, so I passed. I should get back to work on my time machine. So far, all it does is go forward, one day at a time!
 
I've shown this pic before and the parts are still sitting in the basement, courtesy of Reese's Surplus 20 years ago. Some day I will build this little monstrosity.

7.62, short barreled, folding stock "Tanker" garand.....just like the ones used by Special Forces on the D-Day landings........

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I've shown this pic before and the parts are still sitting in the basement, courtesy of Reese's Surplus 20 years ago. Some day I will build this little monstrosity.

7.62, short barreled, folding stock "Tanker" garand.....just like the ones used by Special Forces on the D-Day landings........

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Cough....cough......b@llsh@t!

Otherwise that is a very nice future project you have there.
 
4b1t said:
I've shown this pic before and the parts are still sitting in the basement, courtesy of Reese's Surplus 20 years ago. Some day I will build this little monstrosity.

7.62, short barreled, folding stock "Tanker" garand.....just like the ones used by Special Forces on the D-Day landings........

garand.jpg
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D-day landings? special forces? um no. Dont make people dumber by posting false history. The Garand was used during d-day in its normal configuration only.

When on the internet folks, use smilies and similar characters to denote sarcasm. I know its hard because typewriters never had them :) <--- like this
 
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The so-called "tanker" Garand is a persistent myth which won't go away. The fact is that there never was such a weapon produced or used by the US Army. There were a number od short-barrelled Garands made up in the Pacific to examine their feasibility as a lighter and more hard hitting weapon than the M1 carbine for paratroops. Tests found that, while handy to carry, the shortened rifle had an unacceptable amount of muzzle blast. The only 'tanker' Garands that exist are various civvy conversions done up for sales post WW2. Space in a tank is at a premium so the use of a 'bobbed Garand' made no practical sense. Tank crews are armed with a short, compact, easily stowed weapon, such as an SMG, to provide local security and to protect themselves in the event of their vehicle being knocked out or disabled. US tank crews in WW2 were armed with M1911 pistols, Thompson SMGs, or M3 SMGs.
 
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