Damn excellent!!
Vic

Schuster MFG 1508 W Laskey Toledo, Ohio, phone no. 419-476-5800, makes an adjustable M-1 Garand gas system. I have one my match grade M-1, which allows you to tune the gun to the ammunition you are using, it works well.

Capt Frank, that's a McCann gasplug I have on it.  It has 5 jets you can change.  The middle jet will just run the Garand with a caseful of RL19 behind a 150gr bullet.  I can't recall how many grains that was!  I mostly use the smallest jet and try to keep powders more in line with those normally used in the Garand.  Oh, you made me remember, I have some cast loads I want to try!  Some 193gr bullets, NOE copy of the Eagan MX2-30-H.

madsenshooter, thank you for the details on the mounting of the rail. That is a nice rig you have put together.  Good luck shooting!

Zgun

Interesting that playing with the pressure before bullet release effects accuracy.  I noticed my Krags seem to group better with loads using faster powders that give less pressure at bullet exit.  I have no idea about this thing I put on the end of my Garand, haven't shot it yet.  It grouped good with the repro pronged flash hider, but I never got down to comparing it vs shooting with the stock muzzle other than to say I thought it shot better.  I like having something out there, when I get tired in prone I can rest the barrel on the ground without damaging the crown or getting dirt in the barrel!  The way the butt comes up with the weight of the scope and mount out there, it just might bounce off the ground a few times!  Scope and mount total 1lb 7oz, without rings. 10.7oz of that the mount.  The laminated handguard 1.75oz.

New rings are on, eye relief is better and they sit a little lower than the previous rings.  The ocular bell clears the rail by about 1/16".  Should be about 2" over bore center.  Scope mount and rings total 1.75lbs added.  I have some left over from Camp Perry Nosler 168s loaded with 49.5gr IMR4007.  Time to go to aunties and get a zero!

Too bad the eye relief of the Tasco is too far out for use on my Krags.  Sighting in went pretty good with the Nosler bullets.  My uncle liked seeing bricks blown up at 100yds once I got sighted at 50, so I didn't get to do any groups except for one target I'd go back to between bricks.  Those 4 fell into about 1.25", 3 within 1/2", again @50yds.  At the end I decided to shoot some 193gr cast loads I had loaded with 45.1 of DP85, an old Accurate surplus powder, about like Win 760.  First three went into an inch, a slightly different POI compared to the 168s.  The last five, quickly shot, went into a nice group slightly less than 1" square.  After I got home, I noticed my gas cylinder was a bit loose, I'll have to tighten that up.  45.1gr should have got the 193s up around 2250fps!  They were cast of a hard alloy, same alloy I used for Paul's spritzers.  No lead blowback on the casenecks, no lead in the barrel, but it looks like there may have been some blow by that occurred during the trip through the compensator.  Guess that didn't effect accuracy much, but I'll likely take the compensator off for future lead bullet shooting!  With the smallest jet of the McCann venting some gas, the loads had no problem cycling the Garand, even though it needs some grease.  Lee's load data, which is really extrapolated from jacketed loads, shows about 40,000psi.  With a cast bullet it would be less.  The bullet is an enlarged  base pour version of Don Eagan's nose pour MX2-30H, made by NOE.  I sized it down in steps to .310.  The nose really fills the Garand's throat well!  The dot on the Tasco at 50yds just fits in the square formed by the heavy lines on the target.