M1 Garand Disassembly

hello everybody mr. second time again for the second installment of the grand video series right now we're going to be doing field-stripping and just kind of basic taking it apart not really I'm not going to show you how to clean it right now I'm just going to take it apart a little bit of tidbits information here and let's get started first going to make sure the weapon is clear and by the way if you haven't checked out the first video I'm going to pop up a link to it and should be there right now anyway we can see this thing is empty have nothing on the chamber weapons on safe alright so basically the beauty of this rifle much like any successful battle rifle is the fact that you can take it apart basically with either primitive or tools or nothing at all so just your hands that's the best part so basically we're going to close the chamber on it I'm going to flip it over here now what we're trying to do is provide a vector of force it's kind of backwards and up we're kind of going this way with the rear of the trigger guard and on snap it this trigger guard either stamped or milled depending on your rifle has a little tension that holds it in place with the trigger guard so in the trigger housing so basically you got to pull that out and loop it up and then you pull that trigger group straight up I just pulled it straight out of there and now this is what we call the trigger group now you can put it on fire and then slowly rock that hammer all the way forward you'll see the hammer is actually connected in movement with the trigger guard you never want to just you know let the let the bolt just or sorry the hammer fly forward and hit the trigger assembly sorry the trigger housing you never want to let that happen it's not meant to take that kind of pressure the bolt actually hits the firing pin or sorry the hammer it hits a firing pin in the bolt it's not meant to hit the trigger housing so you want to kind of Coast it forward any time you do that you want to take your brush grab it here you just want to brush in here solvent and oil and then basically re-cock the hammer put it back on safe and especially for a field strip that's all we want to do generally you don't want to take this apart the only time you really want to take this apart is maybe once in a very blue moon just kind of make sure nothing's rust in or replace parts but generally you want to leave this together it's not too easier it's not too hard to take apart and put back together once you get the hang of it but generally we don't want to take it apart unless it absolutely needs it it just puts unnecessary wear on a gun when you take things apart all the way what they don't have to be so anyway jumping off that soapbox next thing I'm going to do is I got to rotate the barrel to receiver the receiver group out of the stock so I can try to grab the rear I want to mess with my sights so what I like to do and some rifles will fall right out some rifles you just tap it a little bit basically you have to swing out the stock and swing out the barreled receiver and unhook it from the stock is basically what you got to do doesn't float in and out you just got a basically unhook it and bring it out so right now what you see is the three main groups here of the m1 garand I got the stock I got the trigger group and get the barrel receiver so really with the trigger groopman McLean what I can that's going to be what I do for a field strip and field maintenance for the stock I'm just going to inspect for cracks and burning and crazy stuff but really I'm going to you know leave it as is looks like the stocks going alright I want to put that over there and then what I'm going to do is put my attention towards the barrel receiver because this comes part a little more so basically the first step is I have this spring and the recoil spring that actually operates the whole gun the rifle is going to be inside this op rod and this is a lot of pressure right here this this recoil spring is acting on the rod here which is going to hit the follower rod of its re the follower arm so basically what I have to do is I have to and notice how it's not pointing towards me or anybody else so I got to pull this out you'll see that that follower actually swings up as I pull it back and some rifles that may not do that this particular one does but I'm going to pull that I'm just going to tap the follower down and then I'm going to slowly bring that follower out we're sorry' the ride out with the spring on it and there we go there's an Emma grand recoil spring coming out now the tension is off this rifle again you just want to be careful you want to make sure that this doesn't fly off I've seen it hit somebody in the face and whatnot you want to be very careful with this and just kind of coast it out alright next thing we're going to do is going to take a pointy object of some kind either the tip of a bullet or a tool or anything really a stick if we had to and I'm going to hit the receiver pin here if I'm shooting the rifle it's from left to right is how I need the drift of this pin I'm just going to take a pointy object and hit that pin you can see it came out and now I can pull it out and now what we're going to do is basically remove what's called the bullet guide well sorry before we do that I'm going to kind of bring out what's called the follower arm place that down take out what's called the bullet guide which it actually doesn't guide bullets this deals with your timing and how the rifle you know basically moves the apparat ejection of clips this is your clip latch arm which is really pivotal in the ejection of clips and went on that last round a lot of people don't understand what these parts do but they really are vital I'm going to flip the rifle over and the follower is going to come out and this is basically you know what you put the bullets on on the clip as you load the rifle alright so now this is almost field-strip we have basically just two more steps to go I have the free-floating op rod and the bolt still in the receiver now as a side note you know that the thing about this apparat I'm going to show you when I bring it out but the apparat is actually bent and it's bent on purpose you know some people I've seen they take apart there and say oh my op rod is bent and they try to bend it straight or what they think should be straight and all of a sudden they have a messed up operon so basically one of the most respected and coveted jobs at Springfield Armory was being one of the opera guys where it was your job to take a newly made opera and bend it correctly to the right angles so where am I going with this well basically you want to all you're doing is you might as well check and see make sure you have no what's called binding with the Opera that it's not causing issues or you know that piston head is not going to dig into your gas cylinder unnecessarily you're not going to have timing or you know overpressure issues so basically the test is I take my rifle and I make sure it's grease and whatnot I keep all the pressure off of it and what I got to do let's see there is off the rail ittle bit basically I start and I tilt it down I've got some grease jamming it up normally it doesn't do that but there's so much grease I haven't cleaned this in a while but basically what you need to check for is you should be able to have it level and then you tilt it up and it should like slide down and then before you hit sixty degrees if you hit 60 degrees and this apparat is still stuck it doesn't slide down that means your op rod is most likely basically binding or bent if you have it to the rear and and you bring it down I have so much grease in this thing it's not even funny grease and dirt but normally it does not do that because my op rod is to the right angles but you should when it's fully clean there we go so got some grease out and you see that how its unlocking itself up and down and I'm not going to sixty degrees basically vertical it definitely opens and closes far before that nun lets me know hey my my op rod is that the right angled okay so enough on that if you see on your receiver here this is basically what's called the takedown notch this notch back here now the opéra should not under normal circumstances come out of the receiver unless you line it up with a takedown knotch you kind of pop it you move in that direction you rotate it and just kind of pull it away from the barreled receiver you can see that opera that I was talking about is so much grease on this thing but basically if I'm holding it like this you're probably not going to see any band at least you shouldn't and then I tilt it to the side you'll see some Bend basically it bands it straight and that bends that way and they'd been straight again that is the you know correct angle of the m1 garand op rod and like I said one of the most talented coveted respected jobs at Springfield Armory was being an opera guy because you know is your job to make sure it was correctly bent and this isn't exactly the most precise cutting-edge science in terms of an exacting thing this is just kind of knowing how to do it and getting it done so you know knowing that you're op rod is not binding is very important to make sure for the health of the rifle I should say anyway last step gonna be taking this bolt out so what I'm going to do is basically just kind of jiggle it out and I will tell you if you own an m1 a and if you've ever tried to take out the bolt when it's brand new it's very hard when it's brand new if you have an m1 or m1a its branding this can be very hard to take out and put back in this bolt but if your rifle is worn or it's well broken in this is going to be pretty easy to do that just comes in it comes out this basically as is this rifle is field-stripped honestly I would not take it apart any further for casual cleaning or maintenance especially if I'm in the field and honestly if I'm in the field all these parts you know I just took off I'm not going to be doing that if I'm in the field I'm going to leave these on the rifle I don't want to lose any parts or anything like that but what I just did is is what you're going to be doing for your casual maintenance you really don't want to take it apart any further than this on a common basis just because that's just unnecessary where you're putting on the rifle every time you do that some cool in the buttstock it's meant for this cleaning kit compartment and I actually I keep it in there just for nostalgic purposes or if I ever have a use this and I didn't have any cleaning supplies this is all I had but basically stuffed in a nylon brush see if it'll come out there you go basically in the buttstock I have basically I stuffed it with grease in here I have the tool which you use to open up the gas cylinder or use on the end of these rods and I have a patch rod so basically these are steel by the way now if you know anything about rifling and accuracy you don't want to put anything harder than the rifle the barrel itself down the barrel so steel rods in a steel barrel that's not something you want to do on a common basis but hey if I was you know zombie apocalypse and I'm running around the mountains and I need something to clean this with and this is all I got then hey it works I honestly the reason why I keep it in there is just for nostalgic purposes I just like you know like I said in part one I like having the accessories or the stuff that was meant to go with the rifle it gives me kind of a deeper historical appreciation for you know the use of this rifle who had to use it under what circumstances and what kind of things they were doing let me see if I can get this back in there and try to stuff this back in there there we go all right so I'll go ahead and put that back now let's go ahead and reassemble the rifle so on the bolt here you're going to have is wing on the left side if you're shooting it's on the left side and what I like to do is just put the wing above the receiver like that and just drop it in for those of you who just bought an m1 a who are trying to take it apart you're just going to have your jaw on the floor a brand new m1 a or a brand new garand that's never seen the action or use is not going to drop in that easy it's just part of breaking it down all right so I'm going to pull this bolt all the way to the rear I'll take my hot rod and this is the the piston this opera by the way man I've like devoted half of his video to the Opera it's a very important part but this operon is three pieces by the way you have this piece too right which was I believe it looks like it was friction welded to the actual hollow tube and then on here they permanently mounted the piston head on to the end and that is a separate part believe it or not three parts permanently combined is one and that's kind of the beauty of this rifle John garand insisted on full stroke direct impingement gas piston system that's a mouthful alright so basically we're going to line up the bolt in the opera with the takedown and there it is and you can just kind of test it this one is going back and forth and we can see that this is completely functional at least in terms of where the fit is now we're going to put all the parts back and to start with the bolt first to make sure the bolt is closed flip it over I'll drop in the follower and to the notches they're pretty simple now before I put the bolt bullet guide on there there is a little notch inside where the clip latches and you can actually see if I rotate it these parts actually cooperate together it's clip laps are working on the clip latch and when I put that clip left arm back in the receiver basically it's got to fit just like that over the part so it acts on it like that sometimes you can put together like that oh it's just incorrect it won't work so knowing that I'm going to put my bullet guide on the rifle and there's a tension fit back here some rifles it just falls in and falls out with mine you got to fight a little bit it's pretty tight fit so I have the bullet guide assembled like so I'll move my arms so you can see just make sure that the clip latches where it should be there we go and you always want to check when you have it you just want to push and make sure that the clip latch reciprocate is what you're doing with the clip latch arm then you take your follower arm and slide it kind of sideways through the bullet guide and then slide it into the follower Channel take my receiver pin going from the shooters right to left and I just push that pin through until I have all the parts together now just as a side note just for your information the off rod will not come free of the rifle unless one of two things has happened either I take out these parts that I just did or I remove the gas cylinder assembly because if if I have a gas cylinder assembly on and I have these parts assembled back on the receiver this op rod will not ever come free unless it's out of spec and it runs off the receiver which is which is really bad but for a normal m1 if this is assembled and the cylinder is assembled then the apparat is not going to come out I have to do one of two or both but I can't inspect the opéra to come out unless I do one of the two alright anyway we're going to make sure that this is greased up under normal conditions we're going to throw this in there the more grease the better honestly I don't think you can over grease and if you do the rifle just sweat it out and keep functioning so apply the pressure again I'm being kind of careful about where this is pointed now it is not fully if you can see the detail it's not fully in battery yet I just got to lift up on that follower there you go and now it's in place and I can check I can just kind of do a basic up-and-down this rifle is the barrel receiver is back together how it should be now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my stock and my barrel receiver and I got to kind of pivot it I got to lock it in and pivot it back and lock it in place like I did and the next thing when you do that make sure that you don't hit the wrong sides here because you can with the with the receiver you can hit the sides of the stock and damage it so just make sure it's lined up before you apply pressure and then I like to use on the right side of the trigger housing there's a channel I line that up with a channel the mating channel in a receiver that's how I know also with the stock I can kind of see where this floor plate is the trigger housing I can put that on the stock and it shows me basically where I'm going and I basically do that last clip in to make sure the tension is set on this rifle now we'll do what's called a function check where I basically ensure that the rifle is functioning so I'll make sure it's empty and again we want to instead of pulling it I see too many people pull it like this basically if I pull it and I let go and I have a slam fire this bolt is going to hit me right in the hand so generally with this rifle especially it is somewhat prone the slam fires if you're using the wrong ammo where your primers aren't exactly up the stuff basically I want to always want to pull this up right like this because if it comes back and it slam fires that bolt just brushes over my hand and no harm no foul that's just kind of a minor note as well you belt-fed guys going to know I'm talking about you pull it back ok there's nothing in there we can see that and go ahead and put the weapon on fire and then I'm going to go ahead put the bolt forward point in a safe direction I'll discharge the weapon and I'll leave the trigger discharged I did not let go that trigger that trigger is still discharged I'm going to go ahead and rack the bolt not fully because I don't want to put the bolt to the rear I just want to rack it enough to charge it ok still have my finger on the trigger it's still being held down when I let go of this trigger there should be a minor click and then I'm going to pull the trigger again I should hear a big click there we go now we know this weapon is fully functioning another thing that's kind of nice is if I'm looking at this rifle I have this indent right here I can actually I don't know if you can see it on the video but I can see the hammer in there and that lets me know that the weapon has been discharged now you should never rely on that because there could still be around in the chamber and it could slam fire under a crazy scenario but you just know if you see that it lets you know hey this rifles discharged but more importantly if you look in that channel and you see nothingness you just see black you don't see the hammer at all that lets you know hey this rifle is actually cocked it's charged it's ready to go and you can see hopefully you can see that and now you can see the hammer so just by looking at this rifle most of the time you can tell that hey that rifle you know it's either cocked or it's the Hammers not cocked you can tell just by looking in that channel don't know if that was intentional or not but it sure is nice but either way you shouldn't trust it you should always you know check I'll just kind of see what it looks like in there and basically that's your your basic field strip at the end one Koran should not really go any further than that for basic cleaning so I hope this video helped and we're just going to go in depth for some more video series all right thanks for watching

Channel: Mr2ndAmendment

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Keywords: M1 Garand (Collectable Item), shooting, disassembly, field strip, m1, garand

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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 21 2012