Early designs for the M1 Garand used 10-round clips and were chambered in .276 Pedersen. .276 Pedersen patent drawings. The M1 Garand went on to serve through World War II, Korea, and the phase-out ...

Few weapons share quite the same notoriety as the M1 Garand—used by the U.S. Military from 1936-1957, ... Here is how the M1 rifle evolved from the drawing board to the battlefield.

On June 15, 1951, the Ordnance Dept. granted a contract for 100,000 M1 rifles to the International Harvester Co (IHC). The rifles were to be manufactured at the firm’s Evansville, Ind., plant ...

Finally, Garand was able to successfully go back to the drawing board and redesign his rifle to accept .30 caliber ammunition, which had already been proven in the World War I-era rifle, the M1903 ...

The M1 Garand was named for her inventor, John Cantius Garand, who was born in Quebec, Canada, but moved to the United States along with his father and eleven siblings after their mother passed ...