1944 Springfield Armory Garand

[Aragorn243]

Lock up is very tight, can't get it open without putting something through the hole. It does not have a lot of resistance when closing. Should I build that up with something? I bought a bunch of USGI clips about three months ago. Figured I'd need them at some point.

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[WarPig1976]

Should I build that up with something?

I used two strips of cork gasket material "auto parts store" to tighten mine up. Another thing is to peen the splines if there's ANY movement, which I also had to do,huge improvement in accuracy after those two things. Welcome to the Garand owners club..