In the 1950s, Dad was a well thought of gunsmith and saddle maker. One of his personal projects was to redesign a milsurp Garand into a practical and very attractive sporter. After he had finished, he had this...He had taken 2 inches off the barrel, shortened the op rod, moved gas cylinder back approx. 8 inches and redressed her in a Mannlicher style stock, which he carved and checkered.
I was probably 3 or 4 years old when he did this checkering; I remember watching him do this.
He had also taken nearly 3 pounds off the weight of the Garand in its original battle rifle configuration. In about 1960 he traded the Garand to a family friend for 3 Winchesters.
Jump ahead to April of 2015, I recently bought the Garand back from the son of the family friend who had traded three of his Winchesters for Dad's Garand.
I've been studying older threads on reloading for the Garand and although I know that my Garand's action will cycle most reasonable loads and will probably start out with a Lyman 311299 on top of 30 grains g/t of IMR 4895. My question at this time is, have any of you Garand owners found that one brand of en bloc clip performs better than another?
smokeywolf