first of all, this site looks like a dream come true for me.

i have always owned guns, lol, well, since i was about 5 when my pops got me a little 39a.

here recently, for some unknown reason, i have become completely smitten by the m1 garand. so much so that in the last 3 months ive bought 2, a mid 50's springfield, and a 1944 springfield.

here is the '44





this rifle sometimeshas a little feeding problem. the most common (maybe a half dozen times if i go shoot 100 rds or so) the cartridge will fail to feed, and will lodge kinda cockeyed with the bullet tip wedged in about where the red circle is in this pic.



upon the advice of the CMPicon, ive replaced the oprod, which actually passed the tilt test, but seemed to have excessive vertical play when observed from the side of the rifle, i think from quite a bit of wear on the little pads that keep it captured in the rails of the receiver(sorry for my lack of proper terminoligy, hope that made sense) it also didnt ride anywhere near center of the barrel.

the other thing i replaced on their suggestion was the ejector. it might be worth mentioning that the rifle always ejected toward about 4-5 oclock.

is there anything i might try before i test it again?

by the way, sorry for my first post being a technical problem, but some of you guys just seem to be, well, you know, smart, lol.
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