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There's a lot of great material on the 'net about the Garand.
The short version is that it was designed for a particular load (bullet weight and type of powder). It is a gas-operated gun. If you use rounds loaded differently than the design load, the gas pressure curve for your ammo may be different enough from the correct stuff that it'll hurt (bend) the operating rod.
There are also some issues to be aware of regarding the free-floating firing pin and dimpling the primer by simply chambering a round.
Fulton Armory has great material about the rifle. Please read up on it.
Garand is a wonderful rifle but you can hurt yourself pretty badly if you don't know where you've deviated from how it was designed to be used. Commercial loads are a deviation. Operating without a clip is a deviation.
I keep asking my three rifles where they've been but... so far I can only imagine......I sure wish they could talk.
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