The greatest battle implement ever devised.” General George S. Patton’s famous praise for the M1 Garand set a towering ...

A loaded 20-round magazine weighed 1.07 lbs ... durability and inaccuracy. Also, the .30-cal. cartridge of the M14 was viewed by some as being unnecessarily powerful for many of the combat ...

A U.S. soldier with an M14 in 1967 during the Vietnam War ... The T25 was made around a new, light .30-cal. round, the T65 (7.62x49), that was a modified .300 Savage cartridge and designed ...