Posted on 09/23/2011 3:41:03 PM PDT by cavdad
Bought a M1 Garand last weekend and shooting it for the first time tomorrow. Range is supplying military grade ammo this time. In the future where is a good place on the web or in Raleigh, North Carolina to buy military surplus 30-06 ammo?
By the way, the rifle is a Springfield Armory 1954 model with proper cartouche and ordinance stamp. No mismatching stock or parts.
Yep, galena pure or alloyed is getting harder to come by. I have several 5 gallon buckets of WW and couple hundred pounds of pure for frontstuffers on hand.
I gave up on condom bullets for general shooting long ago. Started out with just cast for handguns, but went on to rifle boolits and never looked back. Get great satisfaction when work up an accurate load for a particular cartridge.
Are you over on http://castboolits.gunloads.com/ ?
Do you still have a face?
Well then GET them for me....:))
We shoot up in the woods or the back yard.
Never been to an official ‘shooting range’ so I have no idea what one is actually like.
We print our own targets [don’t ask] and frequently, a lot of pop cans and milk jugs give their lives for our amusement.
:)
[black walnuts on fence posts and half empty spray paint cans are fun, too]
OMG.
Himself just had a hang fire in his and we figured Dad had loaded a dud.
The primer was dimpled but that was it.
No bang.
Welcome to my world.
or the same logic she uses to 'save' $100 on her 19th pair of pumps that she bought for $100 on 'sale'...8^}
You very well might be right about the bolt. After this many years and the shock it is kind of a blur but your explanation is the most logical that I have read.
The cartridge was in multiple pieces. A piece of the rim ended up embedded in my breastbone and had to be surgically removed.
Not that badly considering the damage to the rifle.
It shredded one arm pretty good with about a million pinholes filled with powder. Walking to the range office I left a blood trail that lasted until the next rain storm.
I also had a cut on my chest that wouldn’t heal so I finally broke down and went to a doctor. It turned out that a half inch long piece of the cartridge rim was embedded in my breastbone and was protruding outward so the skin wouldn’t heal.
The worst part was the flinching every time I prepared to fire a rifle. After all of these years I still have a bit of a problem shooting an unfamiliar weapon.
1. Cosmoline still on weapon signifying that it had never been cleaned since pulled out of storage.
2. The upper hand guard was severely charcoaled from firing so much that the wood burnt from a hot barrel.
3. Two inches at the end of the barrel was split (probably was fired with an obstruction in the barrel).
4. The stock was severely cracked around the butt and was held together with duct tape.
Otherwise it seemed to be in fine mechanical condition. Since I was very familiar with the M-1 and had some 30-06 ammo (also captured), I fired it and it still functioned without complaint. How many rifles could be subjected to that much abuse and still work-damn few.
Many years ago I had to investigate the out-of-battery firing of a Browning .50 caliber machinegun aboard a Navy minesweeper. The Gunner's Mate didn't know squat about the fifty and misheadspaced the puppy (by about 1/2 inch!). A junior seaman was the first up to fire it from a pedestal mount - you'll note that the Gunner's Mate in question didn't test fire it himself - and it blew up, blasting brass fragments all through the poor sailor's groin and upper thighs. He would have bled to death if they hadn't been near a Soviet spy ship out there in the middle Atlantic and the Soviets had a decent surgeon aboard at the time. I had a lot of fun with that investigation!
Firearms are inherently dangerous at both ends - I am very glad you made it..
Semper Fi, Chainmail
Semper Fi back to you sir and thanks for you service!
I follow the Gale McMillan (McMillan stocks) approach as discussed on 6mmbenchrest.com. I has a gun bore that was brushed to death and you could actually see and feel the damage. I choose to wear out my barrels by shooting them. Some armorers I knew in service were rapidly against scrubbing the bores of their target pistols. The Gale McMillan, god rest his soul, approach is discussed at length at multiple shooting forums.
simple cleaning of the barrel between the rounds while you are sighting in the rifle does no damage to the barrel at all... the barrel will be burnished whether you clean it or not, at least this way you are loading of the steel pores with copper and not crap
I use a different pseudonym and I have contributed to a few discussions, but I mostly lurk. I only post there when I feel I have something useful to contribute. I have been in several gas check maker threads because I bought a Freechex through Ebay from a guy named Charlie. He sent me a prototype of his Freechex III and I made a video of it that I put on YouTube. It is an amazing tool. I can make hundreds of gas checks very quickly with it.
I also have a Lee hardness tester that I use for checking the results of my heat treating that I believe I posted on a couple of times.
I started out casting just for pistols too and went on to rifles and have had good results also. It is very satisfying to work up a new load and it is also fun to introduce others to shooting without it costing an arm and a leg. Being a natural born scrounger... it is also fun to go to the range and come back with more brass than what you started with.
You don't know how close to the truth that is!
has = had
rapidly = rabidly
Drat I hate that.
LOL, when we are out on the ATV’s, Wife can spot scattered brass faster than anyone ever saw.
The DCM doesnt have any more of the greek ammo in stock?
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