Garand Ammo

[Zerex]

Winchester, PPU, S&B and Hornady now load and sell ammo specifically for the M1 Garand.

Good news if you do not handload. Apparently so many CMP Garands are now out there, it is a financially viable solution for the ammo companies.

With the end of surplus M2 LC and HXP fodder, even the CMP is selling Hornady.

The whole deal is the powder's burn rate used, and in their ads they all speak about the op rod bending with commercial hunting ammo.

It is not an internet myth, as hard, continued use of commercial will eventually batter the gun's parts, unless you use a Schuster, or equivalent gas plug, to shoot Rem CoreLockt type ammo.... a cheap $35 dollar solution.
I have a few Schuster plugs, and do shoot RCL.

Old reliable publications, such as Hatcher Book of the Garand, and Khunhausens US 30 cal Service Rifles shop manual encourage only use of M2 spec ammo.

Anyway, that the ammo is available is good news. It is at least $1.25 a round, however.
Cheaper than the surplus HXP that is at least $2.00 a round.

 

[FP1201]

Winchester, PPU, S&B and Hornady now load and sell ammo specifically for the M1 Garand.

Good news if you do not handload. Apparently so many CMP Garands are now out there, it is a financially viable solution for the ammo companies.

With the end of surplus M2 LC and HXP fodder, even the CMP is selling Hornady.

The whole deal is the powder's burn rate used, and in their ads they all speak about the op rod bending with commercial hunting ammo.

It is not an internet myth, as hard, continued use of commercial will eventually batter the gun's parts, unless you use a Schuster, or equivalent gas plug, to shoot Rem CoreLockt type ammo.... a cheap $35 dollar solution.
I have a few Schuster plugs, and do shoot RCL.

Old reliable publications, such as Hatcher Book of the Garand, and Khunhausens US 30 cal Service Rifles shop manual encourage only use of M2 spec ammo.

Anyway, that the ammo is available is good news. It is at least $1.25 a round, however.
Cheaper than the surplus HXP that is at least $2.00 a round.

Anymore, unless you're the benefactor of a stash of surplus or have deep pockets, you have to reload, even then the price of components (including once fired brass) is expensive.
PPU, American Eagle, Winchester White Box, UMC, etc. ALL make "M2" Ball that's safe and acceptable for M1 Garands (and any other 30-06 Rifle)
As for those who would shun the idea that "Hunting" ammunition won't hurt a Garand's op-rod, well stop on by and I'll show you ones I've replaced due to a diet of it... it's an unknown quantity of how many rounds will it take without recourse, but eventually it will take a toll.

 

[C3D]

I stopped shooting Garand because of ammo cost even though I have Lake City surplus stacked to the walls (from the good old days).

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Is this the whole pressure thing? I've heard of it but never saw an issue. Perhaps because my buddy always had surplus ammo for his? All things equal are you supposed to just load on the lower end of the pressure scale? Seems like there is roughly a 6 to 8k pressure difference so it looks like you would just load on the lower end. Service rifle data vs 30-06





But then the E-Tip data for service rifle exceeds even the 30-06 BT data. IDK



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[FP1201]

Good thread from arfcom:

M1 Garand Reloads > Reloading > AR15.COM

I'm getting ready to reload some 30-06 for use in the M1 Garand rifle. I have an 8 pound jug of IMR4895, CCI #34 primers, LC MATCH brass and 168 gr JHPBT bullets (from Widener's). Here's the issue

www.ar15.com

 

[Podmonkey]

The S&B stuff shoots really well in my Garand.
30-06 M2 Ball loads are usually cheaper than most 7.62x51 loads these days.

 

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