30.06

Another adjustable vent screw is the Schuster.
Same idea , just a slightly different method. I got mine from a fellow CGN'r.
I'm also always in search of 30.06 but any deals are older sporting ammo that somebody no longer wants. That Schuster allows me to shoot anything out there.
 
Timberlord said:
Another adjustable vent screw is the Schuster.
Same idea , just a slightly different method. I got mine from a fellow CGN'r.
I'm also always in search of 30.06 but any deals are older sporting ammo that somebody no longer wants. That Schuster allows me to shoot anything out there.
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I am told that virtually any original M2 ball ammo you'll find is corrosive. Personally not interested in firing any corrosive in a Garand.
The gas regulators are a really good idea to protect your rifle from modern ammo. I wouldn't fire one without one.
 
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i have a very good 5 page article on reloading ammo for the m1 garand .

it speaks to what powder /bullets to consider, and info on what to avoid .
i will pm it to any interested members .

simply send me/pm your email ill send you the info.
from don
 
NB.nagantsniper said:
i have a very good 5 page article on reloading ammo for the m1 garand .

it speaks to what powder /bullets to consider, and info on what to avoid .
i will pm it to any interested members .

simply send me/pm your email ill send you the info.
from don
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i recommend this article, its fun to read and also provides some M1 bullet recipes, thanks for the scan! :D
 
I was going to put my own 2 cents' worth in here, but I don't have to. Purple said what needed to be said. See Post 19, this thread.

I can't speak from experience, as all I shoot is handloads.... and I handload with IMR-4895, which was the factory powder for God-alone-knows-how-many-billions of rounds of this stuff.

ALL US WW2 production of .30-'06 was corrosive primers, as well as a bunch after the war. Lake City finally changed over their primers in late 1953, so any US military '06 ammo bearing a "54" or later headstamp is NC and NM to boot. That "LC 69" M2 Ball that was sold here a few years ago was just wonderful stuff. I still have a bit, just enough to feed my Garand a clip whenever it feels 'left out' of things. I keep the handloads with the slow powders for my bolt rifles only.

Hatcher's "Book of the Garand" is the best single sourcebook on design, development and history of this rifle. Too bad it seems hard to get these days.

Good luck!
 
Both IMR4895 and IMR4064 are excellent in the Garand, both for accuracy and functionality. I've fired a pee-pot of handloads with both propellants in my Garands over the yrs, and I think that 4064 is the more accurate of the 2 by a proverbial c*nt hair.

One plus for 4895 is that it is less coarse, and thus works better thru a meter than does the more "loggy" 4064. I throw all my charges a bit low and trickle up to the desired weight, so this really is'nt an issue.

These powders are both 1930s vintage, but I think that 4064 is probably still the most universal powder going for a whole range of MILSURP ctgs. I've used it successfully in all of the .223 Rem/5.56, 7x57 Mauser, .308Win/7.62, .30-06, 7.62x54, and .303. If forced to live with only 2 rifle powders for everything except the magnums, I think a person would be in very good shape with IMR4064 and IMR4350.
 
Speaking of the proverbial c*nt-hair, a machinist/millwright friend of mine once tired of the expression and actually did something about it. Obtaining specimens of same from 3 brunettes, 2 blondes and a single redhead, he measured them with his nice Starrett mike, added and averaged and proclaimed the precise calibration of the WWSCH: the Welbanks World Standard C*nt Hair.

It came out at precisely .0035".

After that, any time somebody said "tighten her up just a c*nt-hair" or "mill it down just a c*nt-hair", he would work to a very precise three-and-a-half thou.... and he was generally very, very close to precisely what was desired!

BTW, the word "c*nt" is not a vulgarism: it is the correct name for that part, in Anglo-Saxon English. The "polite" word used currently is Latin, meaning "sheath" and was brought into the language in the 18th Century by some frustrated classicist who thought that anything 'common' was unfit for a 'gentleman' to utter. They "cleaned" the whole dictionary at that time, rewrote it, leaving out all the "impolite" words..... which were actual ENGLISH..... and substituting Latin words (generally meaning exactly the same, or else euphemisms which can get downright funny at times) that the common clay didn't understand.

Sound silly? Only until you remember that the Imperial Russian upper class spoke French because Russian was too common, and the upper-class Romans spoke Greek because ordinary Latin was 'vulgar'..... which actually means 'common'.

Oh, it's fun!
 
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Further, quite agree as to the powder selection; if you have those two, you can load just about anything that we will be playing with.

A friend has a rack of the most accurate rifles I have ever seen; if it won't shoot sub-MOA he sold it.... 20 years ago. His standard powders are 4064 and 4350. I take his word on things. Of course, I have to: I once borrowed a quarter from a girl so I could measure one of his 2-shot called groups; it came in at just under POINT NINE INCH at 598 chained yards. That was with a custom 7mm Rem Mag on a pre-'64 Model 70. Fred Jensen did the work, of course.

BTW, his loading for my best P.-'14 is precisely 40 grains of 4064 under a 150 bullet, seated slightly out. It isn't MY standard load, but it certainly is the RIFLE's standard load! Half an inch ain't bad at all with a resurrected Bubba'd war-weary Winchester Enfield!
 
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DA is Dominion Arsenal, which was the Canadian Government plant in Quebec. The C likely has a little arrow in the middle, indicating Canadian Government ownership. This will be Canadian-made ammo for the various Browning machine-guns that our military used, beginning in World War Two and continuing until quite recently.

By 1955, I am pretty sure they had switched over to a Boxer primer, non-corrosive and non-mercuric. A bunch of this ammo was sold in the last few years in the USA, where it got quite a following. The Government of Canada exported it rather than sell it to the Canadians who actually PAID for it. Too dangerous, you know. We're Canadians. We don't like guns.

We shot off just bags and bags of this stuff in the Brownings on our Fireflies, but all our big stuff was older than we were!

This was really decent ammo, too. It was made to the US M-2 Ball standard with a 152-grain flatbase slug.

Hope this helps.
 
DAC 55 headstamp is Cdn military M2 ball made by Dominion Arsenal. It is very good ammo and functions well in Garands. This was made for the 1919 Browning MGs that we used in armoured vehicles and on ground mounts. It was put up in disintegrating links,4 ball,1 tracer. I got a pee-pot full of this from military stocks back around 1972 and still have a small stash of it.:dancingbanana: We used the .30 cal tracers for a sub-caliber trainer in the 106mm recoilless rifle anti-tank weapon. Tracers were't available separately, so we had to get the belted ammo and pull out the tracers. And what to do with the left over ball rounds?;) It is also good for reloading(must remove primer crimps first).
 
Excellent point on powder selection for the Garand...a side not to add here is to avoid the heavier 30 caliber bullets, over 170 grain...they also produce elevated pressures which can damage the firearm in prolonged usage. I have been using the 155 Palma match with amazing results...another piece of advice is to avoid the VLD (Very Low Drag from Berger) bullets...they work awesome in bolt guns and single shots but not so good in a milspec semi.
Cheers
 
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