Winter shooting T-26 Copy....

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Relearned an old lesson about totally removing lube from Garand rifles, in cold weather, a Tanker copy in this case, but overall a mini Garand.
In the new year, I took this T-26 copy in 308, to the range. Gun goes bang, rifle bolt barely comes out of batterry, no reload, no cocking action.:mad:

Big mystery, as in summer this rifle was no problem, whether shot slow or fast.

The only difference, was all that lube I left on it in the summer months.
Rifle taken home, and totally stripped and cleaned, yesterday no problems at all in semi auto fast firing.....

My bad, rifle good....feeling foolish!:rolleyes: :D
By the way, I also have as an option, from Reese Surplus in the US, a BM59 tri-comp, muzzle brake, that has been modified to fit on any Garand.
It works very well, to control muzzle flip. Feels like 223.(if only I can remember to lock-tite the gas lock screw now!)
 
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Hey bro....I only know of two others of recent, since I moved to Alberta in 2000, personally in Canada. One by a board member and one owned by a commercial dealer in the firearms business. In this province.

A long, long, time ago, in a province far, far, away.....

As a teenager in the first few years of looking I have only seen one other at a gun show, in Dartmouth, a 30-06, about 1977, and one other 308 for sale in Access To Firearms paper, in around 1995, when I lived in Moose Jaw.

There you go, a grand total of 4 in over 40 years!!!!
Edit...I did remove all grease......including the gas lock screw, which I should of re-locktited, as the weight and torque from firing eventually loosened the tri-compensator muzzle brake.
But...i had no failure to feed again.
 
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Did you substitute some oil for the grease? i can't imagine running it dry would be too good for the internals. But I know nothing about Garands
 
The short spring and extra angles on the operating rod might be half the problem. The kinks on the original rod were carefully tuned to move inside the various foreend ferrules and wood. If the angles are wrong, the follower rod cant' smack the cartridge lifter at the precise moment.

Before you try to bend the short rod over your knee, disassemble the rifle and try some functions test with a long screwdriver pushing on the face of the rod through the gas cylinder, naturally without the gas plug.

The other option is your spring is too weak. I don't remember where (maybe in some old NRA stuff), but I read that sliding an M1 Carbine spring inside the M1 Garand spring gave more force. Whether this was in relation to shorten Garands or regular ones, the passage of a hundred and fifty winters has dulled my mind.
 
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