Hello Battle Tested Friends....
on a couple of M1 Garand FB groups, it always comes up, from someone, about what ammo can be used in the rifle.
Seems some people don;t know how or just refuse to order ammo through the mail and want to go to their local gunshop or Walmart
to buy ammo. Mostly, people ask if the Remington Core-Lokt ammo is safe to fire in the rifle.
There is one person, who will always chime in with this:
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And goes into an diatribe about....almost argumentatively.....about the changes in the ammo, how the M1 was designed around M1 Ball
and how M2 Ball was developed because of the National Guard and that John Garand STATED, himself, that M2 Ball was to be used only for training.
I think that I have gotten under his skin, asking him to reference all of this, because he seems to become very angry that anyone would question him.
But her is the one who originally stayed that people who don;t understand the M1 gas system would believe anything the hear standing in line at a gun show.
He also references the CMP booklet regarding which ammo can be fired in the rifle.
I do not have access to my Hatcher book nor anything else beyond the internet because I am overseas.
So.....what do you all say regarding what ammo can or should be used in the M1? Can you back it up with references and not just because our daddy's said so?
Me....I am not fighting a war. I have 10,000 rounds of Greek HXP from the CMP. I hand load per the Hornandy book. I will not use any commercial ammo, because I do not need to purchase it. Much of this is all academic, yet it brings people to fisticuffs.