I reassembled it recently and wanted to function check my M1, its been forever since I shot the thing. I put an eight round clip thru it and it cycles and works perfectly, made that ping sound at the end when the clip was ejected. I took my time and shot a beech tree on my land, standing. When I finished, I had this huge grin on my face, it was fun. I dont smile much, much less grin much. But everytime I shoot that M1 I end up grinning and smiling big at the end.

Then I collected all my brass and decapped all eight HXP with my Lee universal decapping die. Man, those military crimps came out so easy.

But yeah, I had this big ole grin on my face towards the end of that en bloc clip! And man that M1 Garand is loud.