Some news from the Garand.
I made a lot of reloads and brought it to a "running wild boar" range. It's a .33 yards long range designed for driven hunt shooting training: you have to hit a wild boar shaped target (1/2 scale) crossing from left to right and right to left at variating speeds (from 15 to 28 mph) through an appr. 10 yards wide shooting window.
I went with 3 friends firing high price modern rigs and optics (fine double rifle 8x57jrs with docter reflex sight, recent Browing BAR .300 WM with docter reflex sight and a .270 sauer 202 with premium Zeiss battue scope). All of them are used to that kind of shooting (which I'm not).
Everybody, including the range's shooting coach, laughed at me when I pulled the garand out of the scabbard. But not for long.
I managed to put 94 % of my shots in the boar, and 75 % shots in the vitals (lungs/heart/neck area). None else was close to my results
Hell, the killing machine was grouping so good, with very quick target acquisition and no malfunction at all with my relaods. Could not be more happy with that old battle proofed rig.
