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  • Qbeam

    Ultimate Member
    Apr 16, 2008
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    Georgia
    Update:

    Received my M1 Garand on Friday, 2 1/2 weeks, from paperwork being sent. Received FedEx notification and was able to adjust the delivery for a nominal fee. Rifle looks good, and the stock has some "character" marks. Looking forward to shooting it.

    Been reading about upgrading the gas plug for using wider variety of 30-06 ammo. Does this allow usage of the heavier bullets for hunting?

    Q
     

    lazarus

    Ultimate Member
    Jun 23, 2015
    13,678
    Update:

    Received my M1 Garand on Friday, 2 1/2 weeks, from paperwork being sent. Received FedEx notification and was able to adjust the delivery for a nominal fee. Rifle looks good, and the stock has some "character" marks. Looking forward to shooting it.

    Been reading about upgrading the gas plug for using wider variety of 30-06 ammo. Does this allow usage of the heavier bullets for hunting?

    Q

    From all that I’ve read, yes. In Range on YouTube did a nice test of both stock and vented gas plug with Garand ammo, a 180gr buffalo bore loading and Hornady magnum loading. With regular gas plug operating rod velocities were something like 40-70% faster than with regular Garand ammo. With the vented gas plug they were roughly in line with what Garand ammo did with a regular gas plug

    Downside is you’ve got a lot of “muzzle” blast from the gas cap venting. No worse than you get from something like a 16” barreled .308, but obviously a ton more than you get with a Garand normally.
     

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