Ammo for M=1 Garands?

[Thomasss]

Our club has a Garand shoot several times a year. We use to buy large quantities of 30.06 ammo from the CMP for our members that wished to participate.
We also have a few rifles that could be rented for such purposes. The available ammo from the CMP is long gone. Anyone have suggestions on other sources for low power, relatively cheap Garand ammo?

 

[troy fairweather]

Hornady has the ammo made for the grarnds

Our club has a Garand shoot several times a year. We use to buy large quantities of 30.06 ammo from the CMP for our members that wished to participate.
We also have a few rifles that could be rented for such purposes. The available ammo from the CMP is long gone. Anyone have suggestions on other sources for low power, relatively cheap Garand ammo?

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[NIGHTLORD40K]

PPU makes batches of cheapish Garand safe ammo, if you can find it in stock get as much as you can.
Federal American Eagle is GTG too.

 

[snowman357]

Reload?
or
https://www.freedommunitions.com/30-06-m1-garand-147-fmj-new.html $1.09/round

 

[cfullgraf]

Yes, Hornady and maybe one or two of the other major ammunition companies have Garand safe ammunitiion.

Reloading is another way to get Garand safe ammunition. There is lots of reloading data out there. IMR4895, H4895, Varget, W748, and other powders are suitable. (H4895 and Varget are my "go to" powders) The loads are not near maximum pressures so they are easy to load and adjust to get great accuracy from your rifle.

You are not lookig for max pressures or velocities. These are not Garand friendly. Approximating matching the military velocities with powder similar to what was in use at the time is best plan.

 

[Random 8]

https://www.sgammo.com/product/30-0...fmj-m2-ball-winchester-m1-garand-ammo-win3006 It's not cheap, but it's the cheapest I presently found from a reputable manufacturer. Unless you wish to hold out for a run of PRVI or God Willing another import of NC surplus, this is it.

As CF posted, reloading is really the way to go these days. I've gotten improved accuracy over M2 loadings with the Hornady FMJBT or 155HPBT. The load is almost universally 46-48 grains of IMR or H 4895 or IMR 4064. I've found ball powders to be erratic in the M1 due to the poor case fill with the lighter charges required.

I've recently worked with AA 2495 and AA 4064 as substitute standards for my dwindling IMR4064. Pricing and availability of these 2 are favorable . I found normal Garand performance in the 45 grain range of AA 2495 ( I believe it is a bit faster than advertised) and 47 of AA 4064 (identical to IMR 4064) with 150 and 155 grain bullets. Accuracy was superior with the AA 4064 in my rifle. I did not have a Chrono at the time, and was comparing ejection pattern and POI at 300m with my known load of IMR 4064.

 

[Jeremy2171]

Don't be afraid to find bulk deals on regular hunting ammo.

150-180gr corelokts run great and can occasionally can be found on sale.


The garand isn't as fragile as the internet leads you to believe.


Ensure the oprod spring is at least 19.5" long and the rifles are properly greased and you won't have any worries.

 

[Chief TC]

PPU is about the cheapest best quality ammo I have found for the Garand. Works well in mine but I reload for mine now.