Name that tool: shooter's edition

[Bugeyed Earl]

I found this great homemade aluminum box at an estate sale a few years ago, and it contained a bunch of bore brushes and other gun cleaning stuff, and a mystery tool that I couldn't figure out. Along with these cool old containers of oil and solvent, the black tool seems to be a multi-tool of some sort, with a slotted pivoting cylinder on one end that looks like a short chamber cleaning implement (measures about .430" OD,) a screwdriver or pry tool, and a more specialized tool that I can't identify. The only marking on the tool is a "63" cast into it.

I'll say one thing for gun oil, it's a hell of a preservative, not a speck of rust on anything in the box!

Does anyone recognize what this tool is?

 

[Provincial]

M1 Garand multi-tool Model M3.

https://cdn3.volusion.com/nnpdk.eydaw/v/vspfiles/photos/M1G-200-2.jpg

 

[Bugeyed Earl]

M1 Garand multi-tool Model M3.

https://cdn3.volusion.com/nnpdk.eydaw/v/vspfiles/photos/M1G-200-2.jpg

Thanks, that didn't take long at all!!

 

[bonneyman]

What's that bulb looking thing on the one end? I believe the other tools are the gas plug remover/screwdriver and a bolt disassembly tool. (My dad was a Garand fan so I'm thinking back to one of his "speeches"). The Garand tools I've seen have a chamber brush where that bulb attachment is. Is it a broken case extractor?

 

[MR.X]

I think that's an old .50 cal ammo can too.

 

[Bugeyed Earl]

What's that bulb looking thing on the one end? I believe the other tools are the gas plug remover/screwdriver and a bolt disassembly tool. (My dad was a Garand fan so I'm thinking back to one of his "speeches"). The Garand tools I've seen have a chamber brush where that bulb attachment is. Is it a broken case extractor?

Apparently it's for chamber cleaning with patches instead of the brush (it's slotted, but that doesn't really show in the pic.)

 

[Bugeyed Earl]

I think that's an old .50 cal ammo can too.

Yep, you're correct. I didn't realize they made them out of aluminum, but in the period before aluminum was being conserved for the war effort, the aluminum cans were common. I also learned that the lining is just linoleum, and not something more hazardous as I suspected.

 

[bonneyman]

Apparently it's for chamber cleaning with patches instead of the brush (it's slotted, but that doesn't really show in the pic.)

10-4 Thanks for that info.

 

[gpw_42]

Apparently it's for chamber cleaning with patches instead of the brush (it's slotted, but that doesn't really show in the pic.)

This is an M3 multi-tool. The tool with the brush is an M3A1 multi-tool (modified/improved version). Broken shell extractors were carried by BAR men and machine gunners (IIRC)...at least that was the basis of issue.

Nice score, Carl! That early ammo can is probably less common than the M3 tool.