unmodified op rod

[30calflash]

I've a question on uncut original op rods, WW2 vintage.

They've been called unsafe by some as it may break and wreak havoc in more ways than one. Is it worth selling it off to a collector and getting a newer version, or getting that one modified?

Your thoughts and comments are welcome. 30calflash.

[jak]

Welcome to the forum 30calflash. What do you want to do with your garand ? If you want to make it correct, keep it and get another op rod for shooting if you are that worried about breaking it. If you are just using the rifle as a shooter, sell the unmodified op rod and make a couple of bucks. It doesn't matter which modified op rod you used. There are a wide range of opinions on whether to shoot a rifle with an unmodified op rod. Personally, if I had an unmodified op rod on my rifle, it would be on a rifle that would be correct. I wouldn't have a problem using that rifle, but that particular rifle would not be one of my regular shooters anyway.

[Orlando]

Unless it is one of the very early first op rods and it is correct for your rifle ,shoot it. Sure its a chance it "could" crack but you could also walk out the front door and get hit by a meteor.

JMP

[seaninmich]

If you shoot it, you will die. Every uncut op rod ever fired has claimed at least one life. In fact, until late 1944, uncut oprods were responsible for more allied deaths than enemy fire

[dogboysdad]

If you shoot it, you will die. Every uncut op rod ever fired has claimed at least one life. In fact, until late 1944, uncut oprods were responsible for more allied deaths than enemy fire

Imagine being that poor bastard in the rifle company whose last round in the en bloc not only sends the op rod handle through his right eye killing him, but the ping from the ejecting en bloc gets the rest of the company killed.

[Orlando]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[seaninmich]

Imagine being that poor bastard in the rifle company whose last round in the en bloc not only sends the op rod handle through his right eye killing him, but the ping from the ejecting en bloc gets the rest of the company killed.

Yep. "M1 garand, greatest battle implement ever devised....for the enemy".

[buzzy]

Now that everyone has 30CALFLASH thoroughly confused, i the rods were good enough for our guys in WWII then they are good enough for me!
Shoot the thing.

[dan]

The Second World War was won with M1s with uncut op-rods. Shoot it.

[30calflash]

Now that everyone has 30CALFLASH thoroughly confused, i the rods were good enough for our guys in WWII then they are good enough for me!
Shoot the thing.

Thanks for the replies. It's for a friend, a newb, who recently acquired it and the last thing he needs is to have problems or second thoughts on what he purchased. If I find a shooter grade rod reasonable I might try to pick one up for him.

[musketjon]

I've got one on my match Garand (SA 5-45). Have been shooting it for over 30 years. It's never posed any problems and I still have both eyes. Just shoot it.
Jon

[Old Guard]

Okay, I have only noted a couple rods that were welded in years of shooting..the crack should show up long before the rifle 'Throws it off". We were shooting them in 1970s In the TNG,with the heavier Ap bullets and no one ever told anyone about a rod failure, esp to the point of coming off the rifle..Parts I have read was the "very early" OP rods..

[30calflash]

Thanks for the replies. I subbed one of my spares to just get him out there and get in some trigger time this past tuesday. He loved it, to say the least. After sighting in at 25 yards he whacked a 220 yard gong with it. Quite the happy guy!

[Old Guard]

Thanks for the replies. It's for a friend, a newb, who recently acquired it and the last thing he needs is to have problems or second thoughts on what he purchased. If I find a shooter grade rod reasonable I might try to pick one up for him.

Glad you could help him out..next thing you know he will be looking for another rifle..To go with it..