Springfield Armory's continuing efforts at advancing military rifle designs yielded a series of improvements to the M1, culminating in production of the 7.62mm NATO caliber selective-fire M14 rifle, which replaced the Garand in the Army's inventory.

Later, Harrington & Richardson was awarded the contract to produce 500 of these rifles, designated the T48. Concurrently with the T48 project, the Army decided to produce 500 of the redesigned T44 (designated T44E4). In further rounds …

Sep 26, 2011 · Two Springfield Armory-designed guns in trials at Ft Benning were reportedly doing very well. The T161 machine gun and the T44 rifle were both undergoing user tests there. These two would later be designated the M60 machine gun, and the M14 rifle, respectively.

Apr 28, 2022 · This goal of this project was to build a reasonable replica of a T44E4 rifle as made in 1955 at Springfield Armory, and on occasion, use the rifle in CMP Modern Military matches or local/informal 'vintage service rifle' matches.

Object Name: Rifle rifle, semiautomatic Other Terms: Rifle; Firearms; Center Fire; .30 (7.62Mm Nato) Physical Description: metal, steel (overall material) wood (overall material) Measurements: overall: 112.5 cm; x 44 5/16 in barrel length: 63.7 cm; x 25 1/16 in overall: 44 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 113.665 cm x 7.9375 cm. Metadata Usage: CC0.

Measurements: overall: 44 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 113.665 cm x 7.9375 cm. Metadata Usage: CC0. Guid: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-232f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa. Record Id: nmah_415941. sharing our collection online. Terms of Use Rights and Reproductions.

Object Name automatic rifle rifle, automatic Other Terms automatic rifle; Firearms; Center Fire; .30 In; Rifled; 06; 6B; 10 Measurements overall: 42 1/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 107.315 cm x 8.5725 cm place made United States: Massachusetts, Springfield See more items in Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military Military National Museum of American History Record ID nmah_417672 ...

Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Headquarters, U.S. Army Weapons Command. Rock Island Arsenal ca 1952 ID Number AF.67998M catalog number 67998M accession number 247767 serial number 1315 Object Name automatic rifle automatic rifle rifle, semiautomatic Other Terms automatic rifle; Firearms; Center Fire; .30 In; Rifled; 06; 6B; 10 Measurements overall: 44 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 113.665 ...

May 12, 2020 · The lineage of the T44 traces back to the T20, a simple conversion of the M1 Rifle to fire fully automatic from a 20 round box magazine. After the development of the T65 Lightweight Rifle Cartridge, the T20 was modified to use this new round resulting in the T36.

Mar 12, 2016 · Several different scope mounting bosses were included on some T44 rifle prototypes without any serious attempt to come up with a standardized scope mount. The …