M1 Garand blow up

[mrclark303]

Blimey that must have given him one hell of a sore shoulder, that's one hell of a shock wave to laterally split the stock open! Going by the damage, he was lucky indeed to walk away from that one, it could have been much worse.

[browningautorifle]

Berdan primed.

Our MFS ammo is also Berdan...I'll have to check to see if it takes a magnet.

[falover]

I watched the video more than once. Please check out :45 seconds in. Tell me what kind of gas plug that is and why the hell is it not a proper Garand part .What gunsmith would not notice that?

[browningautorifle]

Many including myself use a different gas cylinder lock screw relief valve to bleed off excess pressure. Very common. That won't cause a blow up. Quite the opposite. Even if that's a solid one, it makes it no worse than the original, which doesn't bleed pressure off.

[jrapose]

I agree that Cabella's did the correct thing in recalling that junk they were selling ...and offering the guy gas money, and to refund his money.... but it was not to be nice, I am sure it was motavated by their fear of being sued... Let me tell you a story that really hurt my son.

About 5 years ago my son worked for Cabella's in Reno Nv. as the gun shop manager... and somehow a man bought 3 handguns and walked out of the store with 4 handguns...my son was not even working that day... and as soon as he was told about the situation he called the man...(from the number on his forms ) and told him to come back to the store and pay for that 4th gun or the next call was to be the Reno Police... the man came back, paid and Cabella's did not press charges on him....

But they fired (1) the check out clerk (2) the man at the gun counter that sold the guns and
(3) my son who was not even in the store at the time..... NOT FAIR !
I wrote Mr. Cabella and got no reply, and so I wrote the Chairman of the Board of Cabella's and told them I thought they were unfair and mean ..... (I thought worse things)

Just thought I would tell all, that I think Cabella's is not such a nice place... I did not expect hugs but what they did to my son was rotten...

Joel
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[Bob Seijas]

I agree, they were totally unjustified in firing your son. On the other side of the coin, the Navy holds the Captain responsible "for everything his men do or fail to do." If he is catching a nap in his bunk after 20 hours on the bridge, and the ship runs aground, he gets the court martial -- he left the wrong man in charge. There's also an old stock market saying, "When they raid the bordello, they take the bad girls, the good girls... and the piano player."

[Seaspriter]

This is a very delicate area, and while the firing of your son may not seem justified, there is probably more to this equation. As Bob Seijas states:

. On the other side of the coin, the Navy holds the Captain responsible "for everything his men do or fail to do."

This is not just a military issue. I've owned two restaurants that served liquor. We were under an old English tradition called the "Dram Shop Laws," which holds accountable any owner whose establishment contributed to a problem involving drunkenness. Lawyers call it "joint and several responsibility." If a man came into my restaurant, and my waitress served him a glass of wine with dinner, then he walked across the street to the local bar and consumed a quart of whiskey, then got in his car and killed an innocent pedestrian, I, as owner, regardless of the fact I did not serve him while he was drunk, contributed to the accident and would be judged liable -- jointly and severally along with the bar that also served him. If I had deeper pockets than the bar owner, guess who would hold the bulk of the financial liability? While I might not consider that to be "fair," the family of the decedent would think it fair. Sorry for your son, but Cabellas was probably acting on legal counsel's advice.

[jrapose]

Yes, I think you are probably correct....but it sure hurt the kid...it took him a long while to find another gun related job...he took the firing personally.

[CINDERS]

Not knowing much about Garands but if it is a shortened barrel then if you have a gas regulator can you not use a smaller port to bleed an amount of the gas to have the same operating pressures, I only ask this as we are not allowed semi autos why I am surprised our Govt lets us read hunting books with semi autos in it. (Sorry Badger but I will cane our Govt every chance I can for the injustice they have perverted on the common law abiding gun owners of this nation of shooters....)

[Bob Seijas]

Cabellas was probably acting on legal counsel's advice.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Shakespeare, Henry the Sixth. An excellent proposal

And, "The law is a a$$." Dickens, Oliver Twist, a profound observation.