bamaranger
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carbines and chopped garands
Jeep Hammer,
I have not been to the Marine Corps museum, if you say you saw a chopped Garand with a forward mounted optic, maybe you did.
But all reading and sources I have ever examined state that the shortened Garand was an experiment, with only a few ever made, and I've never seen mention of one scoped in "scout" style. One M1 authority says the only true example is in the West Point museum (Scott Duff I think).
But, Navy machinists and Marine Corps armorers are an enterprising lot and who knows what was cooked up unofficially, and displayed for unknown time period in museums. The M1 Garand was scoped in several variations, with a base that attached at the forward part of the receiver, but the optic extended rearward in more conventional fashion. I suspect you likely already know this, but I thought I would bring it up. These rigs were offset left (not forward), to allow loading of the "en bloc" clip (not end block).
I was not aware that the USMC had fielded an infra red optic in WII for the M1carbine, so I found your post very interesting. In checking further, the T3 version did have provision for a day scope, but the pics I've seen put the scope over the receiver in conventional fashion. I believe there is a US outfit producing a repro of the T3 carbine with repro day scope at this time (new Inland).
Jeep Hammer,
I have not been to the Marine Corps museum, if you say you saw a chopped Garand with a forward mounted optic, maybe you did.
But all reading and sources I have ever examined state that the shortened Garand was an experiment, with only a few ever made, and I've never seen mention of one scoped in "scout" style. One M1 authority says the only true example is in the West Point museum (Scott Duff I think).
But, Navy machinists and Marine Corps armorers are an enterprising lot and who knows what was cooked up unofficially, and displayed for unknown time period in museums. The M1 Garand was scoped in several variations, with a base that attached at the forward part of the receiver, but the optic extended rearward in more conventional fashion. I suspect you likely already know this, but I thought I would bring it up. These rigs were offset left (not forward), to allow loading of the "en bloc" clip (not end block).
I was not aware that the USMC had fielded an infra red optic in WII for the M1carbine, so I found your post very interesting. In checking further, the T3 version did have provision for a day scope, but the pics I've seen put the scope over the receiver in conventional fashion. I believe there is a US outfit producing a repro of the T3 carbine with repro day scope at this time (new Inland).