17-6-18 M14 Picture of the Day - New Army Rifle M-14

[Mark in Rochester]

New Army Rifle M-14

Photographer: Andreas Feininger

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[mmppres]

think we all would love to have one of each in that picture to play with.

[RASelkirk]

Dibs on the BAR! What's the rifle on the far right?

Russ

[Bob Seijas]

That picture was meant to illustrate the weapons the M14 was going to replace.

[CINDERS]

The rifle on the right with the shoulder hook and bi pod is that a full auto version of the M-14 did they have that version......!

[fjruple]

Folks--

The rifle on the far right is the heavy barrel M15 which did not go into series production. Note; the bipod is different from the later M14A1 M2 bipod.

--fjruple

PS-- Many of the left over heavy barrels from the M15 rifle were used to prototype the heavy barrel M14 National Match rifle.

[CINDERS]

The heavy barreled M-15 roughly like the SLR L2A1 version given to our troops in VN.

[RCS]

Very rare to find an M15 heavy barrel outside of a military display, Neither the HRA T48 nor the HS T48 were ever manufactured with the heavy barrel like the FN T.48

Carry handle for the Model 1918A2 authorized towards the end of WW2 but seldom seen on BAR's until the Korean War was well underway

[Mark in Rochester]

Here is a nice picture of the T44E5 Rifle, otherwise known as the M15 Heavy Barrel Rifle. The rifle was given a standardized classification, but never made it to general production. The reference of "heavy barrel" is a misnomer. It actually is very different than the M14, having a different gas system, bipod, front sight, flash suppressor, and an extremely different stock and hardware.



Aside from the stock what are the differences between the two?