M1 Garand review with Jerry Miculek

hey guys the footage you're about to see is done by a professional I've been doing this over 25 years this footage is for entertainment value only please do not try this at home so you want to choose fast huh I'm finally waking up today a lot of people ask me well how do I get to the next level well you get to the next level by being the first one on the range and the last one to leave I'm Jerry Miculek and welcome to mission accom this is our second part of the shoot fast series I've got m1 garand so I've got three or four different variations of the m1 here I must start off with a good CMP model here what CMP means is the Civilian Marksmanship program I bought this one in Aniston Arsenal in Alabama it's just this very much parts of gun it was part of a lend-lease gun that was sent to Denmark and came back matter of fact it has a BA or Barrel in it which is recognized as being a very good pair also give you an idea these guns were adopted by the US government back in the late 1930s it replaced the old three Springfield bolt-action rifle you can just imagine the difference in the firepower between a bolt-action in the semi automatic these were five rounds extremely accurate rifle these were not quite as accurate but it held eight rounds semi-automatic it didn't recall them as much faster the reload faster the shoot great advantage for the troop are on the ground a little bit heavier but all in all his service record spoke for itself it's I think it lasted until 1954 58 when it was finally replaced by the m14 so another interesting thing about the m1 garand it's pretty much served in just about any platform that you can imagine also have a sniper version of the m1 you see it as a side base right this one has a side base right here the receiver it has the : flash suppressor and the basically laced on cheek piece so this is a Springfield home ring there again just another version of the m1 garand just about any use you can imagine for a for a long gun the m1 serve service up until the 50 so that's just another variation of the m1 that's kind of a very brief history of them what I'd like to show you next to some of the ammunition available for them and what makes them safe to shoot one thing interesting about the m1 garand was ammunition it used when you go back and research the 36 caliber or the m2 ball around used in the second war it was also used in the First World War of course in both action rifles and machine guns but give you a little brief history of the 30 caliber platform there that it actually came from the 3040 Krag round used a 220 grain bullet very similar to this except there was a full-metal-jacket round this is a soft point but it's still a 230 220 grain 30 caliber bullet so as the 30 as the 3040 Krag progressed into the 3006 round it actually went into a 3003 round and it was adopted with a hundred and fifty grain bullet in the final 36 rounds so the third 3003 had a longer neck they shortened it they put a spitzer Buller in it 150 grain brought the velocity up it was a great thing had a little bit of complaints about downrange accuracy it extended yardages so they went into a hundred and seventy-five rainbow tail you can see now we get more of a shape of a modern ballistic coefficient let me say that mister we're getting more into a modern shape of a projectile here with the boat tail design he's 175 shot really well that extended ranges one thing that they didn't like about it was the recoil aspect of it by the user so they went back in a second war basically the m2 thirty caliber round used a 150 great flat base bullet much like this this is actually a cupro-nickel World War one era 150 grain 30 caliber projectile seen as a flat base not as aerodynamic is the one set of 75 it's a little bit less effective past six eight hundred yards so anyway that gives you an idea the bullets that were adopted another interesting aspect to the am two round second war it was available in an AP round with the black tip so if you see a cartridge like this the black designated armor-piercing and what made it armor-piercing was the it actually had a hardened steel core in it if you notice this penetrator is just about the entire length of the bullet this bullet weighed about 163 grain 165 grains for cut it up with a hacksaw you notice in the front here where the jacket comes to the front of the projectile is a little bit of lead so apparently they drew a jacket just had a small bit of led they inserted a steel core sealed it with a cap it looks to be a brass or bronze cap and that was encapsulated by the base of the bullet so the whole projectile in the m2 AP round weighed one hundred and sixty-three grains 165 grain so talking to the old snipers from the world war ii era knew a gentleman who was a Marine Corps sniper he actually preferred the m2 round over the ball round is a sniper round so another interesting thing there was really not a designated sniper grade cartridge for their sniping systems so they had to pick and choose the best they could find so he thought the m2 military a peg round was a little bit better at long-range than their hundred fifty grade ball so it's an interesting bullet going on to the project the cartridge itself and the clips this is what really separated the m1 in the second war from all the other infantry rifles was the ability to put eight rounds into the firearm and discharge it and then again quickly when you fire the last shot it expelled the clip this is actually an ammunition clip when you fire the last run and eject it out of the top so you charge it again with another 8 rounds the only downfall of this system is that you couldn't top it off you could actually take what was left that ammunition out but you couldn't physically top it off and that we wanted to downfall of the m1 and I actually think the military wanted the guys not to have the ability to shoot too many rounds too quick as bad as that might sound so then when you consider the BER at a 20 round magazine it wouldn't have been really that much harder to convert the VAR mag for use in the m1 garand but they chose to go with this platform instead kind of an interesting idea limiting the firepower of a soldier but you have to remember when they just came from the bolt-action rifles they thought giving a soldier a dryland semi-automatic was a great waste of ammunition but they also filed later and a lot of the battles of the second war got the firepower for the individual soldier was so vast compared to the bolt-action that it caused havoc on the enemy so long as you hit ammo you can really put it downrange quicks that's pretty interesting concept they drown clip and how it loaded and unloaded is it's very unique to that through that m1 garand show you a little bit of blasts from the past here this is a box of Frankfort Arsenal 30 caliber m1 bullets these are these 175 grain both tails I was showing you I don't know if Reta this is first war second war era but I would from the condition of the box I would probably think that it's the first war war era so somewhere the 1920s and what we'll be shooting on a range is this Greek ball m2 ball ammunition it's the standard 150 grain this also came from the CMP a couple of years ago it's actually some really good ammunition an interesting thing about most of the European manufactured cartridges is that it has a bi-metal case this is actually a steel jacketed bullet a mild steel jacket with with a copper wash on it if when it's done correctly it can be just as accurate as a copper jacketed bullet most European rifle cartridges that you find or manufactured with a steel jacket it's more cost effective and what can you say we like to waste a lot of materials in the United States so a lot of perception that is actually hard on the barrel but when it's done correctly it's not a bad thing I've seen a lot of m60 ammunition with steel-jacketed 308 rounds in it so anyway when it's done correctly it's not a bad projectile the only that's the only downside of it if you're shooting on steel targets out in the desert that's steel when it when it hit steel it makes a lot of sparks it can start a lot of downrange fire so that's something you want to consider when you're out in a area or a rifle range that might have a fire hazard you might want to leave your steel jacket and ammo at home okay well give you a quick introduction to the timer these timers accurate or accurate down to one hundredths of a second so we can put a car time we can put a delay storm we can put a quick start whatever but every time we make a every time we fire a shot it registers on the time we can go back and actually see what it took when I talk about a shot split that means the time in between each shot so a split time rapid fire is usually 20 hundredths of a second two-tenths of a second 15 hundredths of a second so when you hear split times that's what we are talking about is actually what it took to pull the trigger for each and every individual shot so with this little gizmo here we can go back and see and register it and then tell you exactly what we did on the range the rifle we're going to shoot today is that CMP garand that went to Denmark it made its way back through the lend-lease program CMP is funded by sales of these m1 garand so it's a great marksmanship program it gets a lot of junior shooters into the into the shooting sports every time I pass through Aniston or sir Arsenal I usually try to stop and buy at least one gun so anyway we're going to take this and just actually see how fast we can shoot it okay we out on the range I got my m1 garand I've got a clip of 150 grain m2 ball elbow I've got three targets at 7 yards they bought a target with apart so what I'm going to do on the timer is react to the timer and come up and fire six rounds on the target in the middle so what we're looking for is to split times in between shots and see what we can do with this m1 garand all right target in the middle here we go I do have to say that was kind of fun I'm gonna go ahead and unload and we take a look at the target let's take a quick look at the target here the hardest thing for me was trying to keep the front side and focus I'm kind of spoiled to a red dot anyway that's first time I actually shot one of these wide open it's pretty fun you can see it had a little back splash from the berm there they're all long target but the same elevation first shot react was a point seventy one and the total time was a 156 so that's about an 81 hundredths of a second eighty-five hundred seven if you do the math on that's about 17 hundredths of a second in between shots so not there you can see the firepower of that m1 come into play here every seventeen hundreds of a second I'm cutting loose with the round and keeping them on targets pretty impressive that first burst was alright but I think I can make these six shots a little bit a little bit better on the target a little bit tighter grouping so I've got another clip of ammo here we're going ahead and load it up 150 ball ammo and let's go ahead and shoot that target again first to the last shot see if we can beat our time here target in the middle here we go all right let's go see what we did that was a little bit quick as a button that averaged about sixteen hundreds of a second between shots what was interesting about that the rifle really didn't recoil all that bad it's kind of a long recoil cycle so me this is my first 12 shots on-target rapid fires not all that bad got three and three so it's kind of a learning curve is kind of a fun thing to shoot fast it gives you some idea of the firepower associated with the m1 garand we're gonna do something a little bit different I put six rounds on target we're doing about 16 17 splits we're gonna try to make it a little harder we're going to shoot two shots on each of the three targets I'm gonna try to get as close as I can to 1,700 splits I've downloaded the magazine to only six rounds so the clip should fly out on the last round got my GoPro on my head here so all right guys here we go - Oh neat I'm the little ready damn boy now that right there was just beautiful I don't know if it was good for you but it was good for me let's go down race take a look at it I do have to say guys first time first shot is sixty-two hundreds and the last shot was a 156 just a half slow a little of eighteen hundreds of a second four per shot per target so it didn't take me but eighteen hundred's to move over I want to show you some shot groupings here first shot I got a little anxious start pulling off target a little early but you can see these seconds this second target got a good center of mass hits two shots and then the third target center of mass two shots I think if I had a chance to shoot five or six hundred rounds out of this m1 it would be pretty pretty effective I can see why the guys in the second war really appreciated the firepower of this m1 garand as you might have guessed from this footage that this is all about the firepower of the m1 garand just think about second war soldier facing the bayonet charge in the Eastern Front or a South Pacific same thing there a mass charge of people you got your m1 garand that you can see downrange we've got five bad guys coming at us I've got my trusty m1 I've got eight runs and military ball I'm going to go ahead and shoot it out and see if the bad guys are make it to me or not here we go let's do it here we go as you can see as you can see they didn't make it I won the day then one gram proved to be the decisive factor here man vs. soda as you can see even the m2 Full Metal Jacket ball ammo it's pretty effective up close all the bad guys are pretty good we want the moment for them to fight another day okay we're going to take this 150 grains flat baseball round I've got five volunteer 2-liter bottles down there I'm gonna step off about 8 7 10 yards or whatever and see if we can get all 5 bottles in one shot that's asking a lot out of one bullet but let's just see what what happened now kind of a donger amazed at what I'm seeing here we've got a couple two or three of them gone in the back to are intact it must have pushed them out of the way it's gonna be interesting to see on camera what really what happened so there you have a damn one Koran eight shots full caliber battle rifle adopted back in 1937 that 1938 served over into 1954 I think so you have a full caliber eighth round semi-automatic battle rifle as you can see it's easy to shoot fast the US soldiers who had these in the second war had the superiority of a firearm that was going to function well and it was accurate well built the right tool at the right time anyway I would like you to subscribe to Mitchell a calm for our next episode there's gonna be on the ar-15 and that thing is even faster

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Length: 18min 43sec (1123 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 11 2013