Changing barrel on garand

[Badger]

In my opinion, be careful if you choose to have a gunsmith do it and make sure they know what they're doing with Garands.

The gunsmith I use in Toronto has a 30 year+ milsurp veteran on-staff, who's personally worked on three Garands for me. He's built, re-built and re-barreled hundreds of Garands in his career. I think he said he used to live in Montreal at one time in the real old days and had worked for an importer (Districorps?) who imported Garands at one time.

Although not exactly what you want to do, I found out the hard way that you have to be real careful if you're going to have a standard 30.06 Garand converted to .308, particularly who does it. I bought one in the EE from a CGN board member that was supposedly done by another professional gunsmith here in Ontario, who apparently thought you just cranked the barrel on with "Locktite" and walked away. It cost me unnecessarily to get it redone by the experienced Garand gunsmith I mentioned above. He gave me a written forensic report to send to the seller and his gunsmith for a claim, but I never bothered.

Since he fixed it up, I've never had any further problems with serious feeding or short stroking, the way it was when I originally bought it. It now shoots like wildfire and I great groups using 7.62mm surplus. The moral ..... Caveat Emptor ...... and use gunsmiths with a good pedigree of having actually worked on a lot of a particular type of these old girls.

BTW, ~Angel~ also uses the same guy for her Enfields and he's done a terrific job re-bedding a few of her DCRA beasts, that had faded over the years.

Regards,
Badger

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