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With all the people getting Garands, perhaps some of them for the first time, I feel the need to repost something I posted in another thread.
Nothing will spoil your fun faster than getting "Garand thumb", caused by the bolt slamming shut on your thumb (not my thumb, a web picture):
This is actually more likely to happen when you are playing with your unloaded M1. Without the friction of a loaded en bloc clip in the magazine, there is nothing to slow the bolt from snapping shut like a mousetrap. It is less likely to happen when you are actually loading your M1. Sometimes you even have to gently slap the op rod handle to get the bolt to close when the rifle is loaded.
Get into the habit of keeping the back edge of your right hand against the op rod handle as you are loading the en bloc clip so you can keep the op rod and bolt from springing forward on your thumb (not my hand, Box o' Truth's hand).
Same technique when you close the bolt on an unloaded rifle by depressing the follower.
See http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu62.htm
Nothing will spoil your fun faster than getting "Garand thumb", caused by the bolt slamming shut on your thumb (not my thumb, a web picture):
This is actually more likely to happen when you are playing with your unloaded M1. Without the friction of a loaded en bloc clip in the magazine, there is nothing to slow the bolt from snapping shut like a mousetrap. It is less likely to happen when you are actually loading your M1. Sometimes you even have to gently slap the op rod handle to get the bolt to close when the rifle is loaded.
Get into the habit of keeping the back edge of your right hand against the op rod handle as you are loading the en bloc clip so you can keep the op rod and bolt from springing forward on your thumb (not my hand, Box o' Truth's hand).
Same technique when you close the bolt on an unloaded rifle by depressing the follower.
See http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu62.htm
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