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Posted: 4/28/2013 12:50:59 PM EDT
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Ordered last week of January, received two weeks ago. Field stripped and cleaned it yesterday. Apparently I missed some oil because she didn't cycle enough to load the next round. It would eject the spent round but the bolt wasn't coming back far enough to strip the fresh round. My consultant tells me I must have missed some oil. Also had a bitch of a time getting the trigger group to lock back in place. Searched the web for "trigger group problem, Garand" and found a thread here from '07 wherein chucke had the answer. "place it in your lap and push towards the butt and down." Anyway she's plenty accurate. Hopefully when I re-clean her she'll cycle better. The Hornady 150 gr FMJ from CMP are rated at 2,800 fps. I chrono'd them mostly at 2,700 with some hitting 2,800.    100 yards no wind resting and benched.  |
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Apparently I missed some oil because she didn't cycle enough to load the next round. It would eject the spent round but the bolt wasn't coming back far enough to strip the fresh round. My consultant tells me I must have missed some oil. Just a friendly FYI, and maybe you already picked up on this... With the M1, grease is your friend. Light oil on trigger group pins, light oil in firing pin channel, and a little here and there on the magazine parts, is about all that's needed as far as oil. Maybe a little in the gas cylinder if you're going to be doing a lot of dry-cycling. Obviously, since it's a free-floating firing pin, you'll want to use some care to avoid getting grease, etc. in the firing pin channel... though virtually the rest of the bolt can/should be greased. You'll want to use grease on all the major sliding/rotating (i.e. the bolt) components. Bolt, op rod, receiver, hammer, bottom of the barrel (where the op rod slides), and some other locations. Put a little grease on the trigger guard cam pins, too. Good shooting... |
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Quoted: I just ordered some of that 150 gr Hornady, what is the size of that group? Didn't actually measure it but give or take four inches. The tape is two inches wide. That's on me though. Remember, my target represents and old fart shooting iron sights at 100 yards. A guy at the end of the bench was having trouble with his scoped Savage 110 not grouping well with various cheap stuff so I gave him three of mine and he had to touching and the third an inch away. |
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Ordered last week of January, received two weeks ago. Field stripped and cleaned it yesterday. Apparently I missed some oil because she didn't cycle enough to load the next round. It would eject the spent round but the bolt wasn't coming back far enough to strip the fresh round. My consultant tells me I must have missed some oil. Also had a bitch of a time getting the trigger group to lock back in place. Searched the web for "trigger group problem, Garand" and found a thread here from '07 wherein chucke had the answer. "place it in your lap and push towards the butt and down." Anyway she's plenty accurate. Hopefully when I re-clean her she'll cycle better. The Hornady 150 gr FMJ from CMP are rated at 2,800 fps. I chrono'd them mostly at 2,700 with some hitting 2,800. 100 yards no wind resting and benched. Or your gas system is worn out. The parts on those guns aren't new, just refinished old stuff. I would have that checked before you burn up too much ammo. |
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Check to make sure your op rod is not rubbing on the stock. That could cause your cycling issues. You may have to remove some wood if it is. Yep. A lot of guys on the CMP forum have mentioned the new wood CMP is using requires some relieving to alleviate short cycling. |
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By looking at the second pic there looks to be no grease in the receiver tack. As already stated the Garand runs on Grease.
CMP rifles do not come ready to run. You need to do a complete tear down and apply grease to all the proper areas. Running dry will cause short stroking especially on a newly reparked rifle |
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Quoted: By looking at the second pic there looks to be no grease in the receiver tack. As already stated the Garand runs on Grease. CMP rifles do not come ready to run. You need to do a complete tear down and apply grease to all the proper areas. Running dry will cause short stroking especially on a newly reparked rifle What this guy said. Nice looking rifle, and good solid trigger group lockup. |
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