Testing the M1 Garand Accuracy at 100 yards with iron sights. By Jack Corbett
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My nephew used this
target to sight in my M1 Garand. Previously I had adjusted the
sights at only 25 yards at the gun range, so the windage was spot on.
But as I would have expected, the Garand shot high at 100 yards so
after firing two rounds my nephew adjusted the M-1's sights to
lower his point of impact. Still shooting high, he once
again adjusted the sights to pull his rounds dead center resulting
in three in the center ring.
One of the
beauties of the M1 is that it has so much power and penetration that
your adversary might be choosing a barricade to protect him only to find
out that the 30--06 military rounds go right through it.
Example in point is that the Belleville gun range will only allow
shooters to fire 30-06 ammo so long as they are not military steel
jacketed bullets. The reason why is such bullets were engineered
to penetrate through lightly armored vehicles and will penetrate the
steel backstops at most gun ranges. When I was just 12 years old
and tried out my Springfield for the first time I found out that the
military armor piercing rounds would go right through trees up to three
feet in diameter.
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