[Eaker]

A slam fire would have exited the barrel the same as an intentionally fired round. The rifle was pointed down range and it wouldn’t have been a safety issue.

TC and humblegunner had fired it previously and I had just fired the twelfth round. When it comes to firearms I have no arrogance at all and will request a step by step walk though as if I had never fired a weapon before.

In my opinion we did everything right the Garand had some internal problem that chose to raise it’s head on magic thirteen. Springfield apparently chose to keep the answer to themselves.

[Chainmail]

I suspect that Springfield was tight-lipped about what happened to that Garand because they knew that they were at fault. Just looking at your photo, the rifle fired out of battery, i.e., the bolt wasn't fully closed when it set off the cartridge. A properly-built Garand cannot fire out of battery: There is a slot in the rear of the receiver that prevents the tail of the firing pin from going forward if the bolt is even slightly rotated away from eing fully locked. Springfield makes its own receivers (cast) and the first place I would look if I were investigating this incident would be that slot.

The bolt lugs appear to be intact and the receiver recesses that I can see are undamaged, so I think that last bit of safe design provided by John C. Garand was probably incomplete.

It's a little late, but I'd stick to an original Garand instead of a reproduction.

Very sorry you were injured.