Linked 30-06: Safe for M1 Rifle?
- Thread starter Young$Money
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- Tucson, Arizona
Well you do have to remove it from the links and put it in the 8 round clips.
Go ahead and shoot the stuff. However you might want to be careful about the tracers if there are any. they can start fires.
Go ahead and shoot the stuff. However you might want to be careful about the tracers if there are any. they can start fires.
The M-1 Garand rifle happens to have an action that is about five-eighths of impossible to destroy; they will handle truly outlandish pressures which would demolish another rifle. Not meaning that one should try to overpressure the things, but you DO have that extra insurance when using one.
If any special high-pressure MG loads were manufactured, they weren't any American standard; all their standards have been published, and none exceed garand operating pressures.
The Garand rifle tends to favour higher-pressure loadings, for some strange reason. Maybe it's a Good Thing that John Garand had to leave Canada in order to find work: this country would never have paid him to design firearms!
If any special high-pressure MG loads were manufactured, they weren't any American standard; all their standards have been published, and none exceed garand operating pressures.
The Garand rifle tends to favour higher-pressure loadings, for some strange reason. Maybe it's a Good Thing that John Garand had to leave Canada in order to find work: this country would never have paid him to design firearms!
Regular milsurp it ain't. Wouldn't have the '.30-06'. May be remanufactured ammo though. Likely European. MG ammo is/was no different than regular ball. The 'paint' around the primer isn't. It's a sealer. I'd shoot it.
"...that John Garand had to leave Canada in order to find work..." His family moved Staeside in 1898. He was ten years old.
"...that John Garand had to leave Canada in order to find work..." His family moved Staeside in 1898. He was ten years old.
