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Garand M1924
Which was a semi automatic tested by the US army, which was John Garands one of several prototypes, made before finally ending up with the M1 Garand.

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Note links provided will go into more about the gun and history

How it functions
(From milsurp forum which is linked)
primer-actuated. Unlike the Model 1920, however, which operated with a rotating bolt with front locking lugs, the Model 1921 bolt didn’t rotate but locked in place at its rear which pivoted and rested before a locking shoulder in the frame.

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It uses 5 round clips, where you pull back the bolt, put the clip in and bullets and close and shoot .30-06/7.62×63mm.

Squad which gonna get the gun
65th Infantry Regiment
The 65th was mostly from the US territory of Puerto Rico also they should have Spanish voice lines

And they fought at Italy and the Bulge

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One of John Garand’s earliest designs for U.S. Military trials was a primer-actuated prototype rifle that laid the groundwork for the famous M1 Garand.

Milsurps which I used to explain the mechanism also were I first found put about the gun it talks about other guns

Also forgotten weapons talking about the gun

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Interesting it’s chambered in 30-06 instead of .276 Pederson, but maybe this prototype was made before the military expressed interest in the cartridge

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This gun was made for .30-06 round Ian video go further but the gun was pretty good issue powder that got it to fail

But it wasn’t made by Pederson so there’s that but Ian explains it great and how it went

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Ah, yep this rifle was made before Garand switched to .276

In April 1928 came the Infantry Board test report on the T1E3, and it was a solid endorsement of the rifle. The Board called for adoption of the T1E3 rifle to replace both the Model 1903 Springfield and the Browning Automatic Rifle. The Cavalry Board was also positive in its own evaluation of the T1E3. To soldiers used to the heavy recoil and exhausting manual operation of the Springfield rifle, the moderate recoil and self-loading functionality of the T1 rifle clearly must have made an impression. Due to problems with primer-actuation, John Garand gave up work on a .30-06 semiautomatic rifle and also focused exclusively on caliber .276.

Side note
T1E3: Pedersen Rifle
T3E2: Garand Rifle chambered in .276
T1E1: Garand Rifle, to become M1 Garand

And yes, these are listed in chronological order. We gave Pedersen’s Rifle the designation T1E3, then Garand made the T3E2, and later the board asked him to make a 30-06 version of the T3E2 which was then designated the T1E1. I can only assume this is due to the caliber change. The first two being .276 prototypes and the reset occurring for the new 30-06 rifle in the tests

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