Always check your Ammo!

CeeJay

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Good Day folks!

So I went out today for a little fun with the Garand, and look what I discovered! this mangled round is a factory loaded round, as I do not do my own re-loading yet. Now I'm not here to bag on Remington, this is but 1 faulty round in the hundreds and hundreds of their 30-06 ammo that I and my Garand like, not sure how this made it out of quality control mistakes happen and no body is perfect, but like I said I prefer their ammo and I will continue to purchase it. I did not see the defective round when I took it out of the box, I did luckily enough see it in the enbloc clip (bottom pic is what its supposed to look like) just as I was about to load in it the rifle, could have been bad news if I didnt see it. All in all still an excellent range day, and just a reminder to all the good folks on here check your ammo and everything else and be safe!

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As long as it would chamber, it would fire fine. Discard the case after.
I have had a few QC issues with ammunition and components over the years. Send it back to Remington and see what they will send you.
 
wbaad said:
Remington strikes again... It appears they cheaped out on the soft point on your ammo too
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I prefer the smaller soft points, the winchester 30-06 soft points were too big and sometimes had small clumps hanging off them, the Remington ones seem much cleaner, and seeing as how the only thing I hunt is paper its not a huge issue for me.
 
snoopycda said:
As long as it would chamber, it would fire fine. Discard the case after.
I have had a few QC issues with ammunition and components over the years. Send it back to Remington and see what they will send you.
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I was thinking about doing that, maybe they will give me a nice 1000 round crate of 30-06! :D
 
yomomma said:
Yah two pics would have been enough. :)

With today's automated process there is bound to be the odd imperfection.
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You would be the same guy to tell him that "this thread is worthless without pics". Highly detailed equals highly informative.
And he's not on here complaining how crappy Remington's ammo is" .....mistakes happen and no body is perfect, but like I said I prefer their ammo and I will continue to purchase it." He is just warning and reminding fellow shooters to check their ammo because sometimes stuff gets missed.
 
snoopycda said:
As long as it would chamber, it would fire fine. Discard the case after.
I have had a few QC issues with ammunition and components over the years. Send it back to Remington and see what they will send you.
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Unless the neck and shoulders detached and stuck in the chamber and the the next round tried to load. A floating pin into the primer with an unlocked bolt could be unpleasant.
 
Once you get of your soap box, go and try to find your since of humour.


L42A1 said:
You would be the same guy to tell him that "this thread is worthless without pics". Highly detailed equals highly informative.
And he's not on here complaining how crappy Remington's ammo is" .....mistakes happen and no body is perfect, but like I said I prefer their ammo and I will continue to purchase it." He is just warning and reminding fellow shooters to check their ammo because sometimes stuff gets missed.
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Garand shooters should be aware that the rifle requires the use of ammo which will generate the correct gas port pressure to cycle the rifle w/o risk of damaging the op rod. Other than US MILSPEC ammo, which has pretty much dried up, the only Garand specific ammo which is commercially produced is made by Hornady and Federal/American Eagle with packaging noting that it is certified for use with Garand rifles. Other commercial .30-06 ammo is loaded with slower burning propellants which do not meet the parameters for the Garand.

You can handload to produce ammo suitable for the Garand with the following caveats;

- only use IMR4064, IMR4895, and H4895 as these do generate the correct gas port pressure. As a bonus these all produce excellent accuracy
- stick to 150-168gr bullets
- always FL resize
- keep brass trimmed below max OAL
- seat primers below flush with the casehead
- don't try to get more than 5 firings out of a piece of brass
- use a reloading manual

Some people do use commercial .30-06 ammo in their Garands with an adjustable aftermarket gas cylinder screw. There are several makes of these available on the market.
 
purple said:
Garand shooters should be aware that the rifle requires the use of ammo which will generate the correct gas port pressure to cycle the rifle w/o risk of damaging the op rod. Other than US MILSPEC ammo, which has pretty much dried up, the only Garand specific ammo which is commercially produced is made by Hornady and Federal/American Eagle with packaging noting that it is certified for use with Garand rifles. Other commercial .30-06 ammo is loaded with slower burning propellants which do not meet the parameters for the Garand.

You can handload to produce ammo suitable for the Garand with the following caveats;

- only use IMR4064, IMR4895, and H4895 as these do generate the correct gas port pressure. As a bonus these all produce excellent accuracy
- stick to 150-168gr bullets
- always FL resize
- keep brass trimmed below max OAL
- seat primers below flush with the casehead
- don't try to get more than 5 firings out of a piece of brass
- use a reloading manual

Some people do use commercial .30-06 ammo in their Garands with an adjustable aftermarket gas cylinder screw. There are several makes of these available on the market.
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I got the adjustable gas plug from brownells and after some experimenting found the right setting, I found the "garand" loads from hornady and federal were just too expensive to keep buying and not always available. after more experimenting I found that it worked best with remington 150 gr, its not the cheapest and also not the most expensive, its mid range and that works for me, but yeah if you dont have the adjustable gas plug, it could end up costing you an op rod.
 
Pr589 said:
Unless the neck and shoulders detached and stuck in the chamber and the the next round tried to load. A floating pin into the primer with an unlocked bolt could be unpleasant.
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Good point! I missed the Garand part.
Option B then.
Looking again at the neck, I doubt it would chamber anyway.
 
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