Any of you know what this/these may be?
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AlexanderA
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Late-type Garand cleaning kit to be carried in the buttstock.
P5 Guy
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My 1903A3 had a similar maintenance tool in the butt, but the container was brass, nickel plated.
NIGHTLORD40K
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Mine had leather anti-rattle pads on either end.
Some Springfields had cleaning kits and some had a spare parts kit.
AlexanderA
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The plastic tube-like appendage in the OP's pictures is the successor to the nickel-plated oiler of WW1 and the early part of WW2. When used with bolt-action rifles, the non-oil compartment contained a string pull-through. When used with the Garand, that compartment contained the cleaning rod handle, which was also a tool for disassembling the bolt and the gas cylinder.
The Garand has two holes in the butt -- one is for the oiler and the other is for the cleaning rod sections. (That's the second type of Garand layout -- the first type retained the pull-through and had a long combination tool instead of the cleaning rod.)
Springfields and Enfields have only one hole in the butt, and the oiler / pull-through suffices.
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It's the M10 cleaning rod and maintenance tool/handle
The tool can be used to disassemble and reassemble the bolt while the bolt is in or out of the receiver, disassemble the gas system, and adjust the rear sight.
The handle is put in the rear compartment of the nickel plated or amber plastic oiler. Patches are wrapped around the M10 handle to prevent rattling.
Some M1's users put the M3-A1 maintenance tool in the lower butt trap hole instead of the oiler. That's the better maintenance tool that has a chamber brush on the tool and a stuck case extractor.
The tool can be used to disassemble and reassemble the bolt while the bolt is in or out of the receiver, disassemble the gas system, and adjust the rear sight.
The handle is put in the rear compartment of the nickel plated or amber plastic oiler. Patches are wrapped around the M10 handle to prevent rattling.
Some M1's users put the M3-A1 maintenance tool in the lower butt trap hole instead of the oiler. That's the better maintenance tool that has a chamber brush on the tool and a stuck case extractor.
Dave DeLaurant
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This guy does a pretty good demo:
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M1 Rifle (Garand) Cleaning Kit, M10 (TF 8-05E)
This training film covers the final individual cleaning kit for the US Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 (Garand), including the M10 Cleaning Rod (Combination tool).For...
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