m1 garand

Good morning! I have an M1 Garand and one of those Ultimak-brand after market rail mounts which replaces the top hand guard. I have a scout scope for it! My question is this: using a Wheeler scope leveling kit (picture included for example), how do you find the "true top" of the Garand? It's a...

In 2014 I bought a service grade M1 Garand from the Civilian Marksmanship Program. When it arrived I was very pleased; it was all 1953 Springfield Armory except for the trigger assembly which was HRA. It came with a brand new Boyds walnut stock and looked great. All for $730. The only thing I...

Before 80% of you start yelling Blasphemy, what I mainly would like is a newer one made by Springfield Armory and rebarrelled to .308. If I could find an original that was rebarrelled at some point to .308 then I wouldn't mind that either. I tried looking around and all I found were the 1950s...

What if a brilliant and ultra-wealthy American (say someone like Edsel Ford I or Howard Hughes) had designed, tooled and produced in quantity (even if most were warehoused) what we now know as the AK-47 chambered for what we now know as the .223 Remington (including full lethality test data for...

The M1 Garand is the most artificially inflated surplus rifle. We know exactly how many we've made, is that a factor in it's high price or not? Or is it just American nostalgia alone that is the driving force? Personally, I think it was Saving Private Ryan that drove the prices up. It was a...

I recently picked up an SAI M1a Loaded after years of drooling. I have always loved Garands and M14s and I finally laid down the cash to get one. I've only had the chance to put a few rounds through it due to my club having the long range closed all winter(fingers crossed it's opening up soon)...

Hello THR! Yesterday I had the opportunity to run my 308 M1 Garand from the CMP in a UML match, Heavy Metal Division. It was a total blast and enjoyed running the old girl. I will post another thread with pics and video. Couple of things I was hoping to get some help on: 3 separate times...

So we all know that the #34 & 41 primers from CCI are supposedly less sensitive and ideal for service rifles and weapons with floating firing pins to prevent slam fires. I'm having a tough time sorting through all of the opinions on if this is just marketing hype from CCI or if it really is...

I know I'll catch hell for not checking from the get go and loading 100 rounds and then realizing my mistake, but admittedly I made an error when full length resizing my brass and set the shoulder back too far and now there is between 0.009 and 0.010" of difference in the shoulder of a fired...

I've been contemplating the purchase of an M1 Garand for some time now. I'm allergic to long barrels, so the Tanker variety is the only kind that appeals to me. However, I also insist on scoping the durned thing. I'd like to use a scout scope to allow for easy loading, and plus I wanna be able...