Many modern hunting .30/06 loads, especially those with 180 ... I tested 100 rounds of each load in my CMP-refurbished M1 Garand, feeding single rounds, partial clips, and full clips. I shot both slow ...

A clip holding 8 rounds is pressed into the magazine of ... It’s commonly stressed that you should not shoot standard factory .30/06 hunting ammo through your M1 Garand. The rifle was designed to ...

Olongapo Outfitters makes some of the best quality, M1 Garand clip pouches I've ever seen. That's right. Gear for the Garand! If you've never looked down the sights of John C. Garand's ...

As it was fed by en bloc clips ... modern hunting .30/06 loads, those with 180-grain or heavier bullets and slower-burning propellants, will produce pressures that exceed what the M1 Garand ...

Like any firearm, however, the M1 was not above criticism. The two most frequently cited complaints against the Garand rifle was its weight of almost 10 lbs. and its clip-loading mechanism.

30, M1” was adopted ... two eight-round en bloc clips of Lake City—all I had. And as that man that in the 70s got down behind on the bench behind my gun-show Garand, he was again a 19-year ...

The focal point was ditching the eight-round en-bloc clip (which loaded top-down) for a proper twenty-round box magazine that loaded from the bottom up—a feature that Garand wanted in the M1 but ...