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Then probably decided it was a bad idea for the same reason it was a bad idea for the L1A1 and M14 There is a good reason why the BAR and the BREN are a lot heavier.;)
 
Oh yeah, that was safe.

BTW

Bumping is the fastest way to get kicked off of a range any where. I'm a firm believer the more popular this topic is and goes around, the faster semi's get banned..........

Hot linking is not a good idea.

Pete
 
The M1 was a successful selective fire rifle in .308 - and it took the Italians to do it - as the BM59. A wee bit off topic from the WWII version....
 
I think the recoil would have been detrimental to good accuracy, the increase in ammunition use would have been only hampered by the fact that the rifle held 8 rounds.....think Vietnam Spray-n-pray with a .30-06 battle-rifle.

NS
 
I don't see a full auto Garand being too practical for a number of reasons; not the least being the 8 round clips. Unless you changed how it was fed , you would spend more time loading it then firing it.
 
As was already pointed out, when the M14 which evolved from the M1 was required to have full auto capabilities, it got heavier, and still wasn't a success. Most were modified to semi-auto only. It is very difficult to make a rifle serve as a full auto squad weapon unless you go to a reduced power round. That is a big reason why the Russians went to 7.62 X 39 and the U.S, to .223 and eventually the eastern block followed. The Germans were the first to use a reduced power round to fill in between submachine guns shooting pistol cartridges and machine guns using full power 8mm.
 
There was no need for it. Every squad already had a leader armed with M1A1 or M3 and a BAR man to provide FA fire.
 
A friend of mine made a bet that he could hit the target with a M14 in full auto.
The way he did it was to lay the rifle on a sand bag and put another sandbag on top of it!
Otherwise the thing climbs like a homesick angel. the first round will be on targer, but the rest????????
 
Heres some pics of the F/A Garands. According to the curator at springfield these were also used near the end of WW2 by the troops against the Japanese.

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I note with interest the way that the comb on the stocks on the F/A Garands has been raised significantly so that the line of the bore is better lined up with the shoulder (straight line recoil, similar to the AR-15)

Tells me that they were at least trying to make it controllable.

Note the height of both the front and rear sights, tells me that the line was raised over an inch.

NS
 
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