I feel foolish! AGAIN!

[Gyrene]

M1 Garands are sort of my specialty on our range, and I usually work out whatever problem has ocurred with a customers M1 Garand.

Today, for the second time in about a year and a half, a problem developed with a customers/friends M1 Garand. The bolt would not go far enough back into the receiver to lock. (I know you smart guys already know what the problem was.) I pulled it apart, and didn't see anything except that the operating rod was colliding with the catch, not going under it to lock.

I pushed the problem over to one of our unpaid volunteers. He couldn't figure it out either. Later he went back, and field stripped it and put it back together, and like magic, it worked correctly. I took a look at it before the volunteer figured out what happened, and saw that the follower was now in correctly!

KICK ME! That was a Boot Camp trick the Drill Instructors used to pull on us!

I FEEL STUPID, I FEEL STUPID! . . . (Sung to the tune of "I feel pretty" . . . !)


Gyrene OFC (Maybe getting TOO OLD F. . . ISH!)

semper fi



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