Was at the range several years ago (shortly after I got my first CMPicon Garandicon and found CSPicon) and a few guys showed up with a Garand. I was shooting something else, but took notice that they seemed new to the Garand. After a couple of shots they were futzing around in a huddle then they asked if I knew anything about Garands. The-oprod had jumped the tracks and was hanging out at a painful angle way too far rearward. I broke down the rifle for them, liberated the jammed up rod, and poured out a handfull of broken spring. Must have been six or seven pieces of spring. I don't think they bent the op rod as it seemed to track without binding but it could have ended much worse.

I hope the guys learned a lesson about taking a rattle-trap rifle to the range without even inspecting it or learning a thing about it.