Garand loads?

[Nhsport]

What are you folks useing for Garand loads? Thanks

 

[ocabj]

Military surplus 4895 and M2 pulled bullets from gibrass.com.

But I mostly shoot Greek HXP right now since that's the ammo we're issued for CMP matches so I like to practice with it.

 

[Rico567]

+1 on 4895 or something with a similar burn rate. The Garand is a gas-operated rifle, and so the volume and intensity of the gas tapped off from the barrel to operate the mechanism is important. Color too far outside the lines and you can bend an op rod, or worse. You can look upon the Garand as being "made" for 4895. There are other powder makers that have offerings that work well, though. Hodgdon's Varget is an excellent performer in the Garand.

 

[91Bravo]

47.0 grains H4895, 150 grain FMJBT bullet, winchester large rifle primers.

 

[Grumulkin]

The most recent Hornady reloading manual has a section devoted just to the Garand if you you want other ideas. According to that manual, Vihtavuori N-150 is probably the way to go with the 168 grain Hornady A-Max match bullets.

 

[Bluehawk]

I use WW 748 (46-50 grains) with 147-150 grain .308" FMJ military surplus bullets and WW large rifle primers in my Springfield 1943 Garand.
Works well.

 

[M1Garandfather]

Garand reloads

http://masterpostemple.bravepages.com/M1load.htm

Hello!...Here is a fabulous website with a repint of M1Garand reloading data courtesy of the NRA...
You'll want to bookmark this site , as there are many other relaoding pages as well...
I've used several of the suggested Garand loads here with satisfaction...

Thanks,
Bob

 

[johnmcl]

150 gr and 4895

Hi all,

I'm using 47.5 gr of IMR 4895 and 150 gr FMJ bullets. There's a problem here in that this load is so good that both of my Garands should an order of magnitude better than I.

Were all my problems of this nature...

John