Newest addition to the gun safe: World War 2 Garand

[Razor]

Picked this up as a barreled receiver, and finished it up last week. Took it to the range Sunday and it shot lights out. Only took a couple of enblocs to zero too. It's a 6 digit mid 800,000 serial numbered Garand. Serial number puts it's production somewhere in September of 1942. I always wanted to add a World War 2 Garand to the collection, and I'm glad I did. I was ringing my 10 inch steel gong at 175 yards with the irons 7 out of 8 times most every enbloc.

[Hellbat]

Ping!

Sweet gun.

[straycat]

Damn that is nice.

[xenophobe]

Awesome!

I'm not the hugest Garand fan... but one of my favorite all-time rifles is the Beretta BM-59, which is basically a shortened Garand with a detachable mag!

Patton sure loved it!

[DRM]

As a Paratrooper, the Garand will always have a special place in my heart.

Just an iconic rifle. Congrats on the purchase.

[Razor]

It's my second one. I also have a 5.4 million '54 Springfield too. Hands down they're my favorite guns to shoot at the range. I'm a decent shot, not great, but for whatever reason when I shoot them they make me look like I'm better than I really am. Great confidence guns for me!

[Nightbat]

Probably has to do with having such a big piece of wood in your hands

[bratfink]

Are you re-loading your own ammo for that? My old boss has a few of these which I have shot a few times. He always told me that the grain count in modern 30-06 is too high for old M1's thus he always loads his own. I don't know how much truth there is too that, but I saw no reason not to believe him.

[Razor]

Are you re-loading your own ammo for that? My old boss has a few of these which I have shot a few times. He always told me that the grain count in modern 30-06 is too high for old M1's thus he always loads his own. I don't know how much truth there is too that, but I saw no reason not to believe him.

I shoot surplus Greek HXP M2 ball from the Civilian Marksmanship Program. I'm too chickenshit to reload. I'm scared I'd get sidetracked and either blow up my house or make a much too hot load and kaboom a gun. Most of the ammo I shoot in my old rifles is old military surplus. I really like the Greek HXP for 30-06 and 303 British.

Prvi Partisan is also making a Garand load that's supposed to be real good. I haven't tried it yet. If I remember right 150 grains and under is the rule of thumb for what you should use for the Garand to keep from bending operating rods.

[bombtek]

Yup...THAT right there, is the gun I would have started my connection with...LOVE Garands......but 6 Mosins into it and still not 3/4 of the cost of one Garand, later...Not to mention ammo cost...I'm satisfied...jealous of you, but satisfied LOL

[bratfink]

I'd love an M1 too, but CMP isn't an option for us non-citizen green card holders.... so I have to pay top dollar at a gun show to get one. I too have a Mosin, lovely rifle to shoot.

[MartinBarre]

That's cool. As a Brit I'll never see anything like that never mind fire it, but I've used those exact guns in plenty of WW2 games on the PC and Xbox over the years!

[themisfit138]

What manufacture is your WWII M1. I have a Winchester that I got about 10 years back. They are awesome guns and accurate as hell.

[Razor]

What manufacture is your WWII M1. I have a Winchester that I got about 10 years back. They are awesome guns and accurate as hell.

Both of mine are Springfields. I used to have a Win-13 Winchester Garand that was a Korean import, but I bought it purely as a piece to flip for a profit to fund other projects. I probably should have kept it, but the barrel was pretty much shot out on it. I'll post some pictures of it. I replaced the stock on it, and had to recrown the muzzle to get some type of decent muzzle wear readings. I also reblued the muzzle to get the finish to match. As you can tell by the photo's, I had to take the barrel down significantly to get to decent rifling. Just goes to prove that overexcessive cleaning with cleaning rods can wear down a muzzle. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that's what happened to it.

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After pictures.