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Posted: 5/5/2008 8:43:23 PM EDT

Stupid but I need to know. Are the rear hand guard clips on an M1 interchangeable with the handguard clip of an M14 and vice versa?

TIA

Posted: 5/5/2008 8:43:59 PM EDT

[#1]

yes

Posted: 5/5/2008 8:44:45 PM EDT

[#2]

I don't think they are. M1 Garand has a wood hand guard that is thicker than the M14/M1A.

ETA: Or were you talking about M1A and M14?

Posted: 5/5/2008 8:50:39 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
I don't think they are. M1 Garand has a wood hand guard that is thicker than the M14/M1A.

ETA: Or were you talking about M1A and M14?

no, they are the same part. I've interchanged many a hand guard clip. The following parts are all interchangeable between the M1 and M14 (might not be all of them, this is from memory):

rear handguard clip
extractor
extractor spring/plunger
ejector spring/plunger
hammer
hammer spring/plunger
hammer pin
trigger pin
trigger/sear assembly
safety
rear sight (whole assembly), though M14 sights will be metric, and M1 sights will be imperial

might be more I'm missing

Posted: 5/5/2008 8:54:57 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I don't think they are. M1 Garand has a wood hand guard that is thicker than the M14/M1A.

ETA: Or were you talking about M1A and M14?

no, they are the same part. I've interchanged many a hand guard clip. The following parts are all interchangeable between the M1 and M14 (might not be all of them, this is from memory):

rear handguard clip
extractor
extractor spring/plunger
ejector spring/plunger
hammer
hammer spring/plunger
hammer pin
trigger pin
trigger/sear assembly
safety
rear sight (whole assembly), though M14 sights will be metric, and M1 sights will be imperial

might be more I'm missing

Thanx! I have a DGR stockset coming for one of my M1's and have a handguard clip that I got in a bag of M14 parts from a gunshow and was unsure if it would work.. the clip installed on my M1's looks larger in span but i guees that is because it is, well, installed.

Thanx again!

Posted: 5/5/2008 9:05:13 PM EDT

[#5]

i hope you've got a pair of handguard clip pliers. it would be a shame to fuck up a nice DGR stock set

Posted: 5/5/2008 9:06:04 PM EDT

[#6]

I have a large pair of snap ring pliers. I dont plan of messing it up

And they are nice wood. I have them on my other two M1's. this is a build up from a stripped barreled reciever I got a couple years ago. Its gonna be a looker for sure.

Posted: 5/6/2008 2:11:36 AM EDT

[#7]

I believe the M14/M1A ejector is different than the M1 ejector. The rest of the list looks right.

http://www.m-14forum.com/upload/showthread.php?t=39860

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