Official M1 Garand Pic/Vid Thread

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The below rifle is a later SA rifle with the birch wood, commonly called the orange wood. The rifle is 30-06 and on this one I especially like the metal.
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The next rifle is one I built about 25 years ago while taking an M1 Garand NRA armorer course at Montgomery Community College in Troy, NC. The rifle has all the accurizing tricks made popular over the years including the NM2A sights and a match Douglas barrel. The oddity of the rifle is the chamber is cut in the 7mm-08 Remington cartridge. Before the course I ordered two 308 Winchester barrels from Brownell's. The barrels showed up a day before I was leaving for the course. They were 7mm-08 barrels (short chambered). I ran with what I had and later Brownells made good on the 308 barrels. The rifle is a great shooter but not legal for Garand matches being far from as issued. :)

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These are my only two remaining Garands. If I get a good receiver I have enough parts to build another one in 308 as I have the remaining Douglas match barrel with a full contour Brownell's sent me about 25 years ago. :)

Ron
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
She's a beaut! How is the wood stained/finished?
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......... Thanks. The gun came from the CMP in Oct. 1996 and my only complaint was the wood that it came with. That's new, replacement wood that I ordered shortly after I got the gun and now I can't recall what finish I used on it. IIRC it's nothing special and I was only looking to keep an original "as issued" appearance. Probably a semi-transparent stain based on my research back then into duplicating that sort of thing.
 
Sarge said:
Well, I've got a Garand or 2 - or 3!
Here is the heard. Winchester, Springfield, H&R(1) & IHC(1) & Beretta(1). Along with an 03. The Beretta & a couple of the US rifles are in 7.62 Nato. View attachment 779278
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OMG, reminds me of the early 90-s when my wife and I had a brick and mortar gun shop and Garands were a niche for us. Typically there were 25 to 30 of them in the Garand rack. :)
I guess one can never have Too Many.

Ron
 
Cooldill said:
They're a good stopper. The '06 blows away most rounds such as the .223 and .308.
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I think that claiming the 30-06 Springfield blows away the 308 Winchester is sort of pushing things a little, maybe even a lot. That would be especially true in a gas gun like the M1 Garand for example. While the 30-06 Springfield cartridge can push heavier 30 caliber bullets like 190 and 220 grain those bullets are not recommended in an M1 Garand. Matter of fact in the M1 Garand rifle the GI match loads were a 173 grain FMJ bullet shot at about 2640 FPS. I doubt you will find any suggested M1 Garand 30-06 Springfield loads exceeding a 180 grain bullet being pushed more than 2550 FPS. Using 150 / 155 grain bullets we can get around 2700 to 2750 FPS safely and pushing a 168 grain bullet we can get safely to around 2550 to maybe 2600 FPS.

Using the same rifle in 308 Winchester I can get a 150 / 155 grain bullet 2650 to 2700 maximum, and to around 2500 FPS (with a few powders we could push 2600 FPS) with a 168 grain bullet and a 178 180 grain bullet around 2350 to 2400 FPS.

So really when it comes down to the muzzle the 30-06 Springfield doesn't quite blow away the 308 Winchester. What it gives you is literally a few hundred feet per second more muzzle velocity. You have guys shooting 1,000 yard F Class using both cartridges, the 30-06 Springfield and the 308 Winchester so between the two, both cartridges will reach out and touch.

Ron
 
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Shot a UML multigun match with my "beater" Blue Sky import M1 Garand today. Snowed like crazy for the first bit and some people left. Too bad because it got a lot better later. Fun stages. I did pretty ok on the long steel with this rifle, surprisingly (after I dialed in a lot of elevation). I like this pic because it showcases 1937-era technology and 2018-era (or maybe 1968-era if you want to pick nits). Click for larger image.
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for any interested here's the video. Like/share/subscribe if you want

Edit: First place! LOL

100 seconds ahead of 2nd/last place ;)

 
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Very cool, ( no pun intended ).... Thanks for posting that. Always wanted to try one of those matches. I had one of those "Blue Sky" Garands back in the early 1990's but it was in bad need of a re-barreling job and I traded it off to a gunsmith/ gunshop owner who had a new M-1 barrel in his shop and was looking for something to put it on.
 
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