Part of me hopes this is a trivial question that is stumping a true garand novice. Sorry this is so long, but I don't know which details will be important. Here goes:
I recently got a Garand (rebuilt on a late WWII Springfield receiver with a new Barnett heavy bbl) from A.I.M. The first time I shot it, things went pretty well, although it to chamber the next round on occasion ... maybe 1 time in 20. That was 170 rounds. I got it home and field stripped it, leaving the gas system in tact. I cleaned the action and applied high temp wheel bearing grease to all the locations in my "Complete M1 Garand" reference book. A few weeks later I took it to the range and thought I experienced a one round slam-fire (2 for 1 trigger pull)... unfortunately I had lost count of the rounds out of that clip, so I'm not sure. My friend likes safeties (I prefer the one between my ears) so I actuated it for him. The first round went off fine, but there was no trigger resistance when he went to shoot round 2. I thought he had fired, and we were dealing with a mis-fire, but there just wasn't any trigger resistance and the bolt was in full battery ... definately in full battery. Once cycled by hand, the next round would fire. For the rest of the day, you could shoot about 2 (sometimes one, sometimes 3) semi-auto and then nothing. Any ideas ... I like the rifle and the rebuild is beautiful (looks like a new rifle) ... but the reliability is making me feel like I should have gotten one of those ugly G3's (no offense to the HK fans!). Thanks in advance for the help
I recently got a Garand (rebuilt on a late WWII Springfield receiver with a new Barnett heavy bbl) from A.I.M. The first time I shot it, things went pretty well, although it to chamber the next round on occasion ... maybe 1 time in 20. That was 170 rounds. I got it home and field stripped it, leaving the gas system in tact. I cleaned the action and applied high temp wheel bearing grease to all the locations in my "Complete M1 Garand" reference book. A few weeks later I took it to the range and thought I experienced a one round slam-fire (2 for 1 trigger pull)... unfortunately I had lost count of the rounds out of that clip, so I'm not sure. My friend likes safeties (I prefer the one between my ears) so I actuated it for him. The first round went off fine, but there was no trigger resistance when he went to shoot round 2. I thought he had fired, and we were dealing with a mis-fire, but there just wasn't any trigger resistance and the bolt was in full battery ... definately in full battery. Once cycled by hand, the next round would fire. For the rest of the day, you could shoot about 2 (sometimes one, sometimes 3) semi-auto and then nothing. Any ideas ... I like the rifle and the rebuild is beautiful (looks like a new rifle) ... but the reliability is making me feel like I should have gotten one of those ugly G3's (no offense to the HK fans!). Thanks in advance for the help