Poodleshooter
New member
This rifle isn't mine, but a guy at my range was having issues with it yesterday....
He had a Springfield receivered M1 that had trouble extracting. He had extraction troubles when single loading it, but even when clip fed the claw wasn't engaging. I had to work the action about 5x to get it to extract. He was shooting Remington Bronze Point factory ammo. I noticed that the brass had a noticeable bulge near the case head. The bulge didn't seem to run the entire circumference of the head-perhaps about 25-33% around. In addition, when the rifle cycled "normally" the op rod would frequently hop off of the receiver rail. You had to retract the bolt to the notch in the rear of the rail to re-insert it into the channel.
After examining his rifle, my first guess was excessive headspace due to the case heads stretching and the failure of the extractor to grab the rim. Maybe excessive port pressure caused premature unlocking resulting in the case stretch? Do any Garand shooters out there have an idea what this problem could be???
He had a Springfield receivered M1 that had trouble extracting. He had extraction troubles when single loading it, but even when clip fed the claw wasn't engaging. I had to work the action about 5x to get it to extract. He was shooting Remington Bronze Point factory ammo. I noticed that the brass had a noticeable bulge near the case head. The bulge didn't seem to run the entire circumference of the head-perhaps about 25-33% around. In addition, when the rifle cycled "normally" the op rod would frequently hop off of the receiver rail. You had to retract the bolt to the notch in the rear of the rail to re-insert it into the channel.
After examining his rifle, my first guess was excessive headspace due to the case heads stretching and the failure of the extractor to grab the rim. Maybe excessive port pressure caused premature unlocking resulting in the case stretch? Do any Garand shooters out there have an idea what this problem could be???