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.

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Great pic Now thats a 3D printer

513000 doesnt seem like a lot considering there was 9 million in the army and marines combined

I fired the M1 back in the day. The clip would fly out after the last round was fired. That rifle actually had a true clip which many folks erroneously call a rifle magazine sometimes. We explain the difference in our firearms training classes every session. Interesting photo.

I like the turtle shell hard hat.

Nice Photo

That's just Winchesters total, near 5 1/2 million were made in total.

It was a lot of Rifles!!!

Everyone got in on military contracts. Winchester, Remington, H&R, US Postal Meter, Singer, International Harvester, IBM, etc.

How many different Companies made M1 rifles?

That was back in an era went men were men and girls were girls. Got a smoke.?

M1 was the rifle used in WW2 mostly. The clip was awkward to load and put into the rifle.

I love watching guys push the follower down with the bolt open and watching them get "Garand Thumb". The rifle made a very distinctive PING on the 8th shot as it threw the empty enbloc out the top.