Garand catastrophic failure

[NRA]

It looks like an M1 Granad had a bad day.

[MattCary]

It looks like an M1 Granad had a bad day.

I would have to agree with that assessment!

[Guest bkelm18]

Ooph. That's painful seeing a Garand turned to splinters.

[NRA]

no doubt

[Kenstaroni]

Note to self....don't buy an M1 Garand

[Guest TresOsos]

Having followed this on other boards and seen the post of the people involed this is what was believed to have happened.

The rifle was known to and had issues in the past with jamming upon feeding the 7th round.

The young lady cleared the jam and made a common mistake on these type of rifles, she rode the oprod home..

Instead of letting the oprod go and slam home she eased it closed.

The saftey bridge on the rifle was probably worn, this is suppose to keep a Garand or M-14/M1A from firing out of battery.

The rifle fired while still out of battery and not completely locked up.

This why you always let a Garand or M-14/M1A oprod go and let it chamber and lock and not ease or ride the bolt closed.

Painful lesson, she recieve some cuts and bruses, inbedded splinter and some shrapnel but no serious injuries.

[NRA]

Thanks Tres good info!

[kb4ns]

Note to self....don't buy an M1 Garand

Yeah, they're awful guns. Should you find one, immediately package it up and send it to my house for "proper disposal."

[buck1032]

I miss my Garand. I gave it to my buddy, my sons name sake, who trained with the Garand in the USMC back in the late 50's.

[Caster]

I had one do almost the same thing. Not a catastrophic detonation like the poor gal in the video, but it did shear a locking lug. I don't care what people say, they may be great guns, but they aren't as great as some inflate them to be.

[peejman]

Having followed this on other boards and seen the post of the people involed this is what was believed to have happened.

The rifle was known to and had issues in the past with jamming upon feeding the 7th round.

The young lady cleared the jam and made a common mistake on these type of rifles, she rode the oprod home..

Instead of letting the oprod go and slam home she eased it closed.

The saftey bridge on the rifle was probably worn, this is suppose to keep a Garand or M-14/M1A from firing out of battery.

The rifle fired while still out of battery and not completely locked up.

This why you always let a Garand or M-14/M1A oprod go and let it chamber and lock and not ease or ride the bolt closed.

Painful lesson, she recieve some cuts and bruses, inbedded splinter and some shrapnel but no serious injuries.

This applies to most any semi-automatic weapon. Slingshot the bolt, that's the only way.