Hi Guys,

I’m new to this site and forum so please bear with me.
I recently inherited a WW-II era M1icon-Garand made by Springfield from my father. He purchased it back in the 1980’s – but never shot it. I took it to the local OUTDOOR range and I was doing Ok with it –but the groupings were not consistent. I then took it to one of our local gunsmith’s here in Raleigh for it to be gone over for safety, etc. The gunsmith said that it was in excellent condition and had to only replace 1 small spring. However, he told me that the crowning on the muzzle was bad and that was most likely the reason why I had the grouping problem. He did not recommend to have it re-crowned but to purchase a new barrel. I went online and ordered a decent $250.00 new replacement barrel. I took it back to the gunsmith and he put the barrel on, tested fired it and said everything was great. Famous last words.

It was almost a year after I had the barrel put on that I finally found the opportunity to shoot it. So this past week I took it to an INDOOR range. I shot from the bench rest position using a shooting rest. I was extremely disappointed and p.o.’d. I couldn’t hit a darn thing – either at 50 or 100 yards. I wasted 96 rounds. With about 3 clips remaining I was finally on the paper at 50 yards but really low and to the left. I had adjusted the elevation adjustment to where it was about center. (However, this adjustment was almost to the max.) The windage was the big problem. I had the rear adjustment all the way to the left and I was still hitting about the same on the far left border of the target – at 50 yards. At 100 yards there were no hits on the target. I used both surplus ammo that I purchased through the CMPicon and my own reloads (6 clips each.) with the same results. I’m not that bad of a shot. Plus, I was hitting the target at 100 yards at an outdoor range with the old barrel. I took it back to the sporting goods store where I had the gunsmithing done. The gunsmith that did the work unfortunately had died. I wanted them to take a look at it – for free but they told me since I had no proof that the work was done there that I’d have to pay for the gunsmithing again. The bottom line was we got into a bit of a “urination” match and I’m going to have to try find another gunsmith that knows what they are doing I guess. Does anybody have any ideas what may be going on with my M1? I’d really appreciate some feedback.

Regards,
hermiem
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