It’s commonly stressed that you should not shoot standard factory .30/06 hunting ammo through your M1 Garand. The rifle was designed to operate within a certain range of gas cylinder pressures and ...

Many modern hunting .30/06 loads, especially those with 180-grain or heavier bullets and slower-burning propellants, produce pressures that exceed what the M1 Garand was designed to handle, and they ...

The issue is that modern hunting .30/06 loads, those with 180-grain or heavier bullets and slower-burning propellants, will ...

The M1 Garand was the first semi-automatic rifle used by the U.S. Army—from 1936 through 1957—able to put out 40-50 rounds per minute without breaking a sweat.

A dandy device has surfaced that makes shooting heavy-bullet-that is, more than 150-gr.-hunting and other loads in the M1 Garand rifle without bending its operating rod a simple and low-cost ...

Inventor John Garand with the M1 Garand. The Beginning of a World War Weapon Fittingly, the gun that would help to liberate France was created by a French-Canadian—John Cantius Garand.

The M1 Garand: Recent Developments in Auto Loaders. by Julian S. Hatcher; posted on June 10, 2011 ... This does not impair its usefulness as a hunting rifle, ...

In the past, these have included the M1903 Springfield, M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, and M1911A1 pistol. Naturally, over the years the stocks of these iconic firearms have shrunk. These firearms of ...

Throughout its history, since its introduction in the mid-1890s, the Lee Enfield has been used on the battlefields of World War I and World War II and on big game hunting expeditions across the world.

That weapon will be the Infantry Rifle, which is very clearly based on the M1 Garand, one of the most famous guns of all time due to its use by the US in World War II and Korea.

The issue is that modern hunting .30/06 loads, those with 180-grain or heavier bullets and slower-burning propellants, will produce pressures that exceed what the M1 Garand was designed to handle.