So, after years of hoping and many bouquets to convince the wife, I finally own an M1 Garand. Imagine my excitement! I took it apart, cleaned and greased as per Brownells instructional videos, and ran off to the range to play.... then the sadness came.
My new gun would fire 1-2 rounds, then eject the clip along with the remaining rounds (sometimes just up, sometimes all the way out of the gun and onto the ground). No worries I thought, I can figure this out. So, back home onto Google. All the reading I did suggested the clip-latch spring. So I ordered a new one and waited a week. When the new one arrived it was noticeably longer (15mm as opposed to 13mm for the old one).
Off to the range again, and now I can get usually 4 rounds to fire, then it ejects it all again. So now I turn to the knowledge base of hundreds of Garand users for some help. I don't want to just throwing random parts at it without some sort of direction. My next course of action was going to be to try and stretch the spring a bit, but I know that will kill it in short order, so if it's not the problem itself I don't want to monkey with it.
My next thought was a worn clip-latch, but it 'appears' ok? I don't know what the factory length of the actual "latch" part of the lever should be though, so if anyone has their gun apart and a set of calipers I would be very appreciative of a measurement.
Now I've read that the clip itself can be an issue, either worn out or too much parkerizing. I have a total of 10 clips, and they all seems to perform about the same.
Thank you everyone for the help!
My new gun would fire 1-2 rounds, then eject the clip along with the remaining rounds (sometimes just up, sometimes all the way out of the gun and onto the ground). No worries I thought, I can figure this out. So, back home onto Google. All the reading I did suggested the clip-latch spring. So I ordered a new one and waited a week. When the new one arrived it was noticeably longer (15mm as opposed to 13mm for the old one).
Off to the range again, and now I can get usually 4 rounds to fire, then it ejects it all again. So now I turn to the knowledge base of hundreds of Garand users for some help. I don't want to just throwing random parts at it without some sort of direction. My next course of action was going to be to try and stretch the spring a bit, but I know that will kill it in short order, so if it's not the problem itself I don't want to monkey with it.
My next thought was a worn clip-latch, but it 'appears' ok? I don't know what the factory length of the actual "latch" part of the lever should be though, so if anyone has their gun apart and a set of calipers I would be very appreciative of a measurement.
Now I've read that the clip itself can be an issue, either worn out or too much parkerizing. I have a total of 10 clips, and they all seems to perform about the same.
Thank you everyone for the help!
