Garand and M14 Bolt Tool

[Allen Humphrey]

I more typically post in the 1903 section on this forum, but I am a frequent competitor at matches with Garands and even more frequently with M14s. Both rifles are challenging and enjoyable in their own ways as you all know. One common challenge that both rifles share that I don’t enjoy, is getting the bolts disassembled for cleaning and then put back together. I’ve been a machine design engineer for 30 years and I’ve recently been focused on additive manufacturing at my paying job as well as my personal interest. The combination of interest/needs finally allowed me to produce an assembly/disassembly tool that hadn’t really been practical/affordable to consider for low volume manufacturing. I’ve shared the tool in a few other places, but thought that it might be of interest to this crew too.



Tool Pic 1

Tool Pic 2