My Garand is coming!!!!!

[Prof Young]

Sent my order into CMP 12/1/20. In March I got email notice that they'd received the order. Today I got notice that it has shipped. Tracking says it should be here by Wednesday morning.

Kinda excited!

Life is good

Prof Young

[GarandTd]

Awesome! Congratulations! Do you know any of the details of the rifle yet?

[GarandTd]

I'll let you peak at mine while you wait.

[44caliberkid]

You will love it, have a great time.

[101combatvet]

Originally Posted by Prof Young

Sent my order into CMP 12/1/10. In March I got email notice that they'd received the order. Today I got notice that it has shipped. Tracking says it should be here by Wednesday morning.

Kinda excited!

Life is good

Prof Young

I thought it was 2021?

[Shadow9mm]

Congrats! Just make sure you only shoot mil spec/garang soecific ammo, no modern hunting or target stuff, unless you swap out the gas plug to the Schuster type

[JustJake]

Congrats! Garands are cool-beans.

[Logs]

I ordered on first of November 2020 and still haven't got an email yet.

[ed308]

What's is the price via CMP?

[SR420]

https://www.thearmorylife.com/evolut...nd-rear-sight/

[5whiskey]

I ordered on first of November 2020 and still haven't got an email yet]

Logs I sent mine off the end of September. It was the end of February before I ever heard anything. When I did get an update I saw that they received my order near the end of October (snail mail issues). I finally got mine about a month ago. They are definitely still plowing through a backlog, and I can think of a bunch of reasons why the CMP May be hesitant to hire extra staff to speed up the process. Qualified Garand armorers being in short supply is but one reason. It should be getting your time though. If you haven’t heard anything by mid May I might would call them.

[Prof Young]

Yes, I meant 12/1/20. I edited the OP correcting it.

My guns is a "rack special" (I think) and was $650.

I have some ammo, but won't be shooting any of it until I know it won't hurt the gun. May post some pics to get advice on that.

Life is good.
Prof Young

[scoobysnacker]

Originally Posted by Prof Young

Yes, I meant 12/1/20. I edited the OP correcting it.

My guns is a "rack special" (I think) and was $650.

I have some ammo, but won't be shooting any of it until I know it won't hurt the gun. May post some pics to get advice on that.

Life is good.
Prof Young

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't the CMP guns considered to be shooters? Use the right ammo, yeah; but you shouldn't get something that would be considered unsafe to shoot.

Right?

[Prof Young]

As I understand it the Garand is designed to shoot the M2 ball ammo. Modern loads are more powerful and you can bend the rod that works the action if you over do it with heavy bullets and high pressure. The solution is to change out the gas plug with a ported one. The lead options are the Garand Gear plug or the Schuster. Garand Gear reduces the pressure by 30% and once installed you don't need to do anything, but you still wanna stay away from really hot loads. The Schuster is adjustable so you can shoot anything and not damage the rod. I've ordered a Schuster from Midway. Looks very easy to install and adjust.

Life is good
Prof Young

[Prof Young]

Garand came Fed Ex. Their shipping notice said "signature required" but the delivery guy said no signatures for "safety" reasons. (Really? A gun going to the wrong guy is less dangerous than virus on a tablet screen?) He asked my name but not for ID.

See pics below, plus one more below below.

Only damage I can see is on the gas tube.

I posted a pic of the ammo warning to respond to a previous query about "right ammo."

Manual has full disassembly instructions.

As noted previously I have a Schuster adjustable gas plug on it's way.

This is gonna be fun.

Life is good.
Prof Young

[Prof Young]

One more pic below . . . as I write this it occurs to me that I've think I've seen posts with more than three pics. Is that possible only if you embed the pic in the post?

[Red Devil]

1.1M... JAN43.

Sweet.

What are the hang tag bore numbers?




Red

[GarandTd]

I don't know if they still do, but Schuster also made the non adjustable gas plug. I have it for my Garand. It increases the volume of the gas chamber.

[Shadow9mm]

I would not recommend The garand gear plug personally unless you want a safety margin with M2 ball. I would not shot any modern ammo with the garand gear plug.

The Schuster is what I recommend. It is slightly less versatile as you need to tune it to individual loads. but you can properly tune it to any load.

In range TV on youtube did a great 2 part comparison with high speed video measuring the op rod velocities with each.


The M1 Garand - Is Commercial Ammo Safe? (schuster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_F1riBth8

Review: Garand Gear M1 Gas Plug and coparison to schuster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe3rrlJsEz0

[Reloadron]

Enjoy your new to you rifle. Learn the proper care and feeding of it and it will serve you well. In time you may want to consider the mentioned Schuster Adjustable Gas Plug.

Anyway for now just enjoy.

Ron

[5whiskey]

Garand came Fed Ex. Their shipping notice said "signature required" but the delivery guy said no signatures for "safety" reasons. (Really? A gun going to the wrong guy is less dangerous than virus on a tablet screen?) He asked my name but not for ID.

I have my C&R license, and in addition to my Garand from the CMP I’ve also had 2 C&R guns and a C&B revolver shipped to my house the past 6 months. Every one was supposed to require a signature, but no one signed for any of them. The C&B revolver sat on the porch unattended for hours. The other two I had a fedex account and tracked the delivery to keep a firearm from sitting unattended on my porch. Porch pirates are big here. It is nice that my 17 year old daughter can take custody of stuff that would usually require an 18 year old signature though, kept me from having to leave work one day.

Still, the fedex practice of leaving guns on porches kind of irks me. Anyway enough off topics. Prof you are going to enjoy your Garand. I stress about improper ammo myself, but most run of the mill standard factory ammo like Remington corelokt or federal power shock will be suitable if you use bullets under 150 grains. I reload for mine, and I must say I did expect slightly better accuracy. I’ve gotten a load that holds 2-2.5 moa, so it’s not terrible. Just surprising it lags my no4mk1 enfield in accuracy is all (to be fair that enfield is neck and neck with a Swiss k31 and they shoot 1.5 moa or better, so it’s a far above average enfield accuracy).

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by GarandTd

I don't know if they still do, but Schuster also made the non adjustable gas plug. I have it for my Garand. It increases the volume of the gas chamber.

The M1 Garand and Commercial Ammunition

GarandGear - Ported Gas Plug

What I use.




Red

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Shadow9mm

I would not recommend The garand gear plug personally unless you want a safety margin with M2 ball. I would not shot any modern ammo with the garand gear plug...

Op-rod speed - is a fraud.

It is determined by area under the curve system pressure, not Port Peak Pressure, which over-stresses the system.

That's why the "Ported Gas Plug" functions reliably with all ammo.

It just lowers peak pressure, w/o affecting system pressure very much.


The GarandGear - Ported Gas Plug works as advertised.

Beretta used the same thing for their modified M1 rifle, the BM 59.

Red

[Prof Young]

Thanks to all. All this info is seriously help full. I have some Remington 30-06 ammo that should shoot just fine with no damage. Haven't shot it yet.

Red you asked about the hang tag bore numbers. See pic below. I have no idea what those number mean so . . . help!

Life is good.
Prof Young

[GarandTd]

The 0+ numbers are good if I'm reading that correctly. I think that means there is little to no wear on your barrel.