No, you didn't read the title of this thread wrong ....
Okay, you gents are going to like this one. Stopped by a local gun store tonight to pick up a few boxes of 30.06 for the Garand. One of the owners, an older gent came out from behind the counter to assist me. I told him what I was looking for and he pulled out a couple of boxes and said these (the box in his hand) weren't that bad. Not a bad price either. He asked me what the ammo was for, where I told him it was for the Garand. He then said something that made me scratch my head.
He told me to look out for ammo with "soft primers." That when you fire off a round, and that the Garand has a somewhat of a "floating" firing pin, that ammo with these "soft primers", could make the Grand continue to fire, even though you're not holding down the trigger. Now granted a Garand, even with a full clip is only going to fire eight rounds, but what he was saying, really made me scratch my head.
I was going to tell the gent that I thought he was NVTS, but he was/is also happens to be the armorer for this shop. One of the older shops in the area.
So, has anyone ever heard of this, these "soft primers" making a Garand, or any other weapon go full retard ... errrr ... I mean full auto?
Thanks
Confused in Colorado.
