.270 Garand

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 7:00 PM

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Criterion Barrels made a run of Garand barrels in .270 Winchester

So I snagged one and I borrowed a .270 Winchester pull through reamer.

I installed the barrel on a Breda receiver BMR 68. I chose BMR 68 because .270 calibre is 6.8mm.

The gun was assembled with standard Garand components and I loaded Hornady 120 grain SST bullets together with 46 grains of IMR-4895. The velocity of this load is 3030 fps

The .270 Garand feels like a Mini 14.There is very little recoil and it is the best shooting Garand of them all

 

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 7:06 PM

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Here I am shooting the .270 Garand.

 

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 7:16 PM

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BMR 68

 

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 7:18 PM

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 7:21 PM

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Top to bottom: .270, .308, 9.3x62

 

Druid

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• Friday at 7:37 PM

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As the garand was originally chambered in .276 pedersen that .270 has a bit of similarity to the original I suppose.
I must get around to trying a garand one day on a trip to less restrictive countries.

 

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 7:49 PM

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The .276 Pedersen fired a 125 grain bullet at 2750 fps.

The .270 Garand can send a 130 grain bullet at 3000 fps

 

Druid

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• Friday at 10:17 PM

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Shootinshyster said:

The .276 Pedersen fired a 125 grain bullet at 2750 fps.

The .270 Garand can send a 130 grain bullet at 3000 fps

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That would have been very easy to shoot, light on the recoil

 

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Shootinshyster

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• Friday at 10:27 PM

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If you look at the video you can see that there was very little recoil

 

Cootmeurer

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• Friday at 11:37 PM

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Absolutely a work of art. Almost enough to make me want to convert mine.

 

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Shootinshyster

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• Saturday at 12:06 AM

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I also built a Garand in 6.5x55. I will get that one out tomorrow

 

VIGILAIRE

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• Saturday at 5:51 AM

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Not wanting to go off topic but I seem to remember from the dim and distant that I saw Garands being advertised in French hunting magazines maybe 30 years ago.

This was before the ban on military calibres was lifted, specifically 30.06, and they were available in .270 Winchester and another called I think .30 CC.

Does anyone else remember this? I think ( assumed ) that .30 CC was a simple chamber conversion to exclude .06 from being used but I'm not sure.

The rifles shown on this thread are absolute belters especially the 9.3, what a great driven boar rifle it would make.

 

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Bavarianbrit

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• Saturday at 7:02 AM

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Borrowed the Roswell gun club gun to shoot at a 1,000 yard match in New Mexico and all the others turned up with rem 700s with scopes so I had no chance but have a happy memory (up yours Mrs Thatcher).