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To: Vendome
Nothing over 168 grain and 150 was toyed around with in vintage days.

You must not have read what Phil Sharp, Julian Hatcher and George Nonte had to say about using the 200-grain bullet from the .30-40 Krag in .30-06 loads for the Garand. It worked pretty well in a Springfield or BAR [or the .30-06 Colombian Mauser I was shooting quite a bit in those days] but was a bit hard on Garands. Which was not a big deal up until the 1970s, when the cheerful armourers at Camp Perry would happily direct exchange a bent M1 op rod for a brand-new in-the-wrap one during the national matches. But the parts stocks that allowed that, like those days, are now long gone.

63 posted on 06/21/2011 10:03:20 AM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: archy

No I did not read that. Do you have a link?

I am looking to get some extra .30 & .30-06 in refurb Garands.

Thnx.


73 posted on 06/21/2011 1:11:57 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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