Subdeacon Joe Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Winchester employee with an M1 Garand Receiver after forging prior to the machining process at the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Factory in New Haven, Connecticut during WW2 Winchester was contracted to produce the M1 Garand in 1940 with the first completed rifle rolling off the production line on January 10, 1941. By the time Winchester ceased M1 production in 1945, they had produced a total of 513,880 M1 Garand Rifles. Winchester Repeating Arms Company Archives Buffalo Bill Center of the West - P.20.3019.1 6 1 Quote
Pat Riot Posted February 7 Posted February 7 I thought this thread was going to be about M1 Tankers… 2 Quote
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted February 7 Posted February 7 23 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: I thought this thread was going to be about M1 Tankers… Me too. 2 Quote
Alpo Posted February 7 Posted February 7 M1 forgery? That would be the Japanese Type 4. During the end of the war the Japanese had many captured M1 rifles, and they attempted to reverse engineer it to make it work with 7.7 arasaka. 2 1 1 Quote
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