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Edit: I would also like to know what kind of ammo is safe to use for this rifle.
In 30 years of shooting the Garand I put more rounds downrange with one than you will likely ever see given todays prices compared to back then. 100 or more rounds a day every evening after work for the better part of a decade when I could get it at .20 a round or less distributed amongst 9 Garands. US M2 ball, South Korean M2 ball, Austrian M2 ball, Greek M2 ball, Winchester WW2 lend lease M2 ball, that's just the stuff I remember, the Garand ate it all without complaint. I can tell you what your rifle can eat, I can not tell you if it is safe to shoot, not without the rifle in hand, if you can't do it yourself then any competent gunsmith should be able to give the weapon the once over. As for bending the op rod, the Garand is not a piece of shit, it is a well designed and constructed weapon built for the military of a first world nation. It would take considerable use of commercial .30-06 with pressure at the higher end of the scale to damage the rifle, and bending the op rod is not were the damage would be likely. Accelerated wear to all the cam surfaces on the receiver, bolt, and op rod, as well as wear to the gas piston, broken firing pins, broken trigger group parts, this I would expect over time. All this can be avoided three ways, shoot only M2 ball, load your own ammo to M2 spec, or use the adjustable gas plug.King Johhny wrote:I would just like to know what kind of ammunition is safe to fire in it without bending the op rod. I have heard many different answers and would like to hear from the experts.