competition Garands

[sailor]

I've heard that a glass bedded Garand(or any rifle for that matter) will over time need to be re-bedded. I'm contemplating getting a Garand. Since the price of them has jumped and the CMP is out of service grade rifles, Ive been thinking about going whole hog and getting a nice match grade bedded and the whole nine yards M1. Paying $2000.00 for a <1MOA does not bother me, but if it only lasts a few thousand rounds that would. Anyone have experience with these care to advise or comment? TIA...S.

[MutinousDoug]

Sailor;
I have a bedded Garand with over 3000 rnds through it since bedding and no disernable loss of accuracy. It is not, however a 1MOA gun; more like 2MOA. I had it bedded to use an otherwise unusable stock.
Once you have bedded a garand, they can be re-bedded or "skim bedded" for less than the cost of the original bedding as no routing of the stock is then required.
Garands and their decendents require more maintenance than more modern GI guns (read: M16 family) to keep them shooting to their potential.

[Jon Coppenbarger]

the CMP is NOT out of service grade rifles. They have them and you can go to their web sight and check them out. they ran out of the greek or danish ones which ever they were. But they have springfield ones for $550 right now. From what I understand on the web sight its about a 2 month delivery time but that should change to a speedy one in a week or two.

Remember if you wish to compete in cmp garand matches like at the nationals you rifle MUST not be modified except as they state in the rules! NO bedding and No NM parts like sights and op rod.

Find the rules and what you want to do before you go out and spend big bucks on it.
A lot of local matches do not care if you modified them to match specs but I would ask first.

If you want to compete buy a service grade and tighten it up and go shoot it. Lots of things to do that are legal for those matches.

If it is your ideal to get into highpower and compete (did not really read that from you but wanted to mention it) but still want to shoot a few garand matches buy a match ar15 and a service grade garand and you will not be off much from what it would of cost you to up grade that garand to make it compete at a highpower match.

Good luck