Unknown/Fake/User made M1 Garand flash hider

[Jason60chev]

Hello Milsurpers, In searching for an M1D flash hider, I came across this........looks like it was made with the grenade launcher mount. Has anyone seen one of these before? Know anything about them? Thanks, Jason

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[blfuller]

Not USGI. USGI was a cone type and used on the M1C.

[Jason60chev]

Not being USGI is understood. Just wanting to know if anyone has been anything like this.......offered as a "substitute"......or maybe up by some guy in his basement or garage.....or just a "one-off" modification.

[browningautorifle]

.or just a "one-off" modification.

No, these have been around for years, a fantasy piece I fear. Yours isn't a one off...

[cplstevennorton]

I have one. Exact same thing. I know I've asked around and no one really knew where they came from.

To be honest I have seen a lot of prototype flash hider designs in the Army and Marine Docs. They were constantly messing around with this stuff, trying to find ones that worked better than what already existed. Heck there is one in the Marine Corps docs that Andrew Stolinksi found, that actually was drawn up by a Marine Corporal and submitted to the Marines that allowed a bayonet to be attached to the rifle with the flash hider. It probably never made it past maybe a few being developed, or maybe never made it past the drawing stage, but still if one was found today and posted online people wouldn't believe it was actually Marine.

But yeah honestly I have no clue what these are. They might be some that were made up in small number for the military, or maybe something foreign, or could totally be a fantasy piece dreamed up in the commercial market. But one thing I have learned in the past couple years digging in the actual documents. There is a lot of stuff that we as collectors consider bubba'd, that was 100% legit military. It's really made me look at things differently.

I mean a flashhider, that could also mount a bayonet, on a sniper rifle? lol

[jimmieZ]

Federal Ordnance (a California company) sold many of those in the late 1960's (and later. I think they were made specially to go with the cobbled-together BM 59 kits Fed Ord was selling at that time - I guess as a substitute for the unobtainable (at that time) real BM 59 flash hiders.

[Mark in Rochester]

Originally GI grenade launcher manufactured in to flash hider

Note cut off pin in both examples - if new made there is no reason for this feature

[browningautorifle]

And there were enough to choose from to make these after all...

[Jason60chev]

I bought that flash hider, anyway......was less than $40 shipped. Just the "WTF is that" comments/Conversation starters it will bring is worth it. It looks decently made.

[browningautorifle]

I bought that flash hider, anyway

Absolutely, why not?