Loading for the Garand

[cheygriz]

Remington or winchester 147-150 GR FMJ bullets

Remington 9 1/2 large rifle standard primers. (The Remington 9 1/2 primers are MilSpec, the others aren't, except for some special order CCIs.)

IMR 4895

G-I brass

And you'll have the rifle and ammo we carried onto the beaches in WW-2!

 

[Sport45]

I was looking at mosquito netting. Not as stiff as window screen. Plus if you fold it up towards you so there is a trough at the bottom, you should be able to catch the brass in it.

I don't know if mosquito netting will hold up very well if you're trying to catch the brass. That stuff is pretty hot for a while. Might be better to deflect it into a confined area.

 

[Warpt762x39]

I don't know if mosquito netting will hold up very well if you're trying to catch the brass. That stuff is pretty hot for a while. Might be better to deflect it into a confined area.

Well not so much catch it as in stop it and hold it but stop its forward momentum so it drops down to some sort of bucket. Like the batting cage nets. Same basic principle, different projectile to stop.

 

[Warpt762x39]

On a similar note, I know reloading surplus brass is tougher than commercial brass and that it doesn't usually last as long.

Seeing as a 1903 is towards the top of my to buy list, would the surplus brass originally fired from a Garand and full length resized before being reloaded, last longer in a bolt action when it's only neck sized?

I know the brass from surplus is generally thicker, but would trimming the brass for case neck thickness, i.e. slightly thinner but more uniform all around, keep the brass usable longer?

Also, what might annealing the case do for brass life in either the Garand or the 1903? I've heard that annealing the case neck after a few firings and resizings can help extend the life of the brass in regards to cases splitting at the neck.

If I can reuse the surplus brass later, it would keep my component brass costs down a bit and make it easier to distinguish between the loads for the Garand and the ones for the 1903.

 

[rscalzo]

M-1 lubrication..
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=6525/Product/LUBRIPLATE_130_A_MIL__SPEC__GREASE

Found this data at http://loaddata.com/loads/30-06caliberloads.html

No use without the powder weighs.