Do not ever shoot regular 30-06 hunting ammunition in a standard M1 Garand.\u00a0 Commercial\u00a0 30-06 ammunition is loaded to a much higher pressure than the “Cal .30 Ball M2” that the Garand gas system was designed for and simply will not work. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At best, commercial ammo will cause a stuck case and at worst will bend the operating rod and\/or break the extractor.<\/p>\n
The last volume source for M2 Ball equivalent military surplus ammo was Greek HXP which was happily non-corrosive, unlike WW II and Korea vintage U.S. military surplus.<\/p>\n
As surplus HXP started to dry up Federal came out with 30-06 ammunition loaded to Garand specifications.\u00a0 The boxes were printed with a picture of a Garand and the part number had an M1 suffix.\u00a0 Since then two other manufacturers have realized that with 6 million Garands floating around and Fulton Armory making new ones there is a significant market.\u00a0 The three current sources are:<\/p>\n
Federal \/American Eagle AE3006M1<\/p>\n
Sellier & Bellot SB3006M2<\/p>\n
Prvi Partizan PP347<\/p>\n
A web search will turn up multiple ecommerce sites for each.<\/p>\n
If you’ve never shot an M1, don’t pass up an opportunity.\u00a0 There are few firearms as much fun to shoot as the Garand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do not ever shoot regular 30-06 hunting ammunition in a standard M1 Garand.\u00a0 Commercial\u00a0 30-06 ammunition is loaded to a much higher pressure than the “Cal .30 Ball M2” that the Garand gas system was designed for and simply will not work. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At best, commercial ammo will cause a stuck case and at worst … Continue reading “New M1 Garand Ammunition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,42],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordnance","tag-ammunition","tag-garand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}