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<blockquote data-quote="1911user" data-source="post: 1347971" data-attributes="member: 543"><p>One option to shoot commercial 30-06 ammo in an M1 rifle is to use a vented gas plug. It is a replacement gas plug that has a small hole to vent some gas and reduce pressure on the op rod. On some plugs, the vent hole size can be changed or adjusted depending on how much gas bleed off is needed. </p><p></p><p>It's a crude system that requires some range time to find the vent size that allows enough gas pressure to work the rifle action without excess gas pressure to the op rod. One would be almost mandatory for a heavy bullet (180gr and up), high pressure 30-06 hunting load in an M1. </p><p></p><p>I also recall that either the basic Federal American Eagle or Remington UMC 150gr FMJ loads were M1 gas-system safe. I think it was the Federal load, but it'd be worth a call to them before shooting a bunch of it. </p><p></p><p>For reloading, Accurate Arms powder did have special data for the M1 rifle. I couldn't find it on the website anymore but I saved the file several years ago. It is attached it to this post. Change the filename to .pdf instead of .zip before opening. I had to change the name so it would fit the upload size limits here. PDFs are limited to 19K where .zip files can be up to about 100K in size. The file is 46K and has data for 150gr FMJ and 168gr BTHP using several AA powders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1911user, post: 1347971, member: 543"] One option to shoot commercial 30-06 ammo in an M1 rifle is to use a vented gas plug. It is a replacement gas plug that has a small hole to vent some gas and reduce pressure on the op rod. On some plugs, the vent hole size can be changed or adjusted depending on how much gas bleed off is needed. It's a crude system that requires some range time to find the vent size that allows enough gas pressure to work the rifle action without excess gas pressure to the op rod. One would be almost mandatory for a heavy bullet (180gr and up), high pressure 30-06 hunting load in an M1. I also recall that either the basic Federal American Eagle or Remington UMC 150gr FMJ loads were M1 gas-system safe. I think it was the Federal load, but it'd be worth a call to them before shooting a bunch of it. For reloading, Accurate Arms powder did have special data for the M1 rifle. I couldn't find it on the website anymore but I saved the file several years ago. It is attached it to this post. Change the filename to .pdf instead of .zip before opening. I had to change the name so it would fit the upload size limits here. PDFs are limited to 19K where .zip files can be up to about 100K in size. The file is 46K and has data for 150gr FMJ and 168gr BTHP using several AA powders. [/QUOTE]
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