{"id":7842,"date":"2016-04-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/t3e2-trials-276-caliber-garand\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:31:15","slug":"t3e2-trials-276-caliber-garand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/t3e2-trials-276-caliber-garand\/","title":{"rendered":"T3E2 Trials .276-Caliber Garand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AwntZVIoPpI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/>\nSold at auction for $172,500.<\/p>\n<p>By 1932, the competition for the new US semiautomatic service rifle had been narrowed down to just two designs: John Pedersen&#8217;s delayed blowback toggle action and John Garand&#8217;s gas-operated action. Both rifles were chambered for Pedersen&#8217;s .276 caliber cartridge, and used 10-round en bloc clips. Twenty samples of each were made and sent out to infantry and cavalry units for field testing.<\/p>\n<p>This rifle is one of those Garands &#8211; serial number 15, to be specific. The results of the trial was a preference for the Garand rifle, and the testing board got as far as writing a formal recommendation for its adoption before General MacArthur vetoed the whole .276 caliber idea for economic and logistical reasons (the US Army had a whole lot of .30-06 ammo and not a lot of spare cash). The result was ultimately a .30 caliber Garand rifle becoming the M1, but this T3E2 trials rifle in .276 sure is a sweet-handling piece of machinery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Sold at auction for $172,500. By 1932, the competition for the new US semiautomatic service rifle had been narrowed down to just two designs: John Pedersen&#8217;s delayed blowback toggle action and John Garand&#8217;s gas-operated action. Both rifles were chambered for Pedersen&#8217;s .276 caliber cartridge, and used 10-round en bloc clips. Twenty samples of each&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/t3e2-trials-276-caliber-garand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T3E2 Trials .276-Caliber Garand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15361,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/15361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}