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Post by roadwarrior on Feb 8, 2013 13:57:24 GMT -5
Alright so It's a pain in the butt to find these, so I was wondering if any of you had one you could measure for me. I need the rear handgaurd's total length and the wood stock's total length. I'm trying figure out if my plastic stock is too long and needs to be filed down some more or my guard is too short. Thanks in advance
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Post by connerjones96 on Feb 8, 2013 17:12:31 GMT -5
M1 garand?
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Post by roadwarrior on Feb 8, 2013 20:23:44 GMT -5
Yeah, sorry I thought it was kinda obvious lol.
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Post by connerjones96 on Feb 9, 2013 10:34:44 GMT -5
Haha I have to apologize as well. Now thinking about it is pretty obvious lol. I have an M14 to full wood M1 conversion with a real m1 stock that that my father and I carved out to fit the m14 reciever. If you want I can send you some photos, but ill have to do it from my phone because I can't figure out how to post photos on here yet lol. So PM me your phone number if your interested.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Feb 9, 2013 16:38:51 GMT -5
The m 14 butt stock if you look closely is a bit longer that the m1 Garand butt stock. Hence if you keep the same dimensions on both the upper and lower handguards while using the M14 lower stock you'll end up with a rifle that is a bit too long. On most (but not all) of the M14 to M1 Garand conversions, the upper (bigger) hand guard is shaved down a little bit and the lower (skinny) hand guard is likewise shortened with the charging handle channel moved forward a bit to offset it accordingly.
I will go out and get the unmodified dimensions and get them posted. In my case i reduce the handguard length a tiny bit to keep the overall length right and to allow the m14 barrel to work without the tiny extension that would be required. The brass inner barrel tip still extends slightly beyond the gas assembly below the front site. I then add a very small muzzle tip that extends beyond the gas locking lug. ( i didnt do this however on perhaps the first 60 rifles or so fearing it would interfere with the flight of the bbs). As it turns out it doesn't.
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Post by roadwarrior on Feb 10, 2013 13:03:13 GMT -5
The m1 garand butt stock if you look closely is a bit longer that the m1 Garand butt stock. Hahah, You may need to clarify Well my front(Fat) handguard only has the part that would insert into the ferrule removed, and the rear guard I cant tell if it's been modified. The person I bought it from said it was one of your conversions with original parts. It has the piece that beefs up the magwell and the barrel extension. I'll post a picture of the RHandguard later.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Feb 11, 2013 15:39:56 GMT -5
Sorry this took so long to post. I had to dig some parts out. To clarify the way the Army designates parts on a rifle is to describe the location as though the rifle were standing upright with the butt plate on the ground.
The stock itself (without the butt plate) is 29 3/4 inches from base to tip. The upper handguard (fat one) is a tiny tiny bit shorter than 7 1/2 inches and the lower (skinny) handguard is 9 3/4 inches. Shorter on the M1C or D sniper variant to accomodate the scope hardware. the distance from the back of the Garand receiver to the butt plate is 3/4 inch shorter than on an M14. For my custom conversions I shorten the upper handguard by 1/8th of an inch and the lower handguard by a tiny bit more than a half inch.
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Post by roadwarrior on Feb 15, 2013 1:02:28 GMT -5
Ahh Thank you so much 2nd Bat
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