['88Scrat]

The title pretty well sums it up. When I got my M1 Garand in September I was happy as could be and couldn't wait to get it to the range. Since than I have become almost afraid of it.

Seems like every time I take it out I hear from some old gun nut that it MUST be fed the right ammo that MUST use a certain grain bullet, that MUST use a certain type of powder, and MUST NOT have a muzzle velocity of over 2,700 fps. This is usually followed by a story about a friend of a friend who had some horrible instance that resulted in anything from a bent op rod to a trip to the local hospital.

Now I know that it likes to be fed a certain type of ammo (I like the Federal stuff that is for M1s) and that it is an older design but it is still a battle rifle that was intended to be able to survive the abuse of combat.

At first I thought these guys were just nuts but this conversation has became more and more common whenever I take it out. Am I being paranoid?