A couple of weeks ago we got a thunderstorm that dropped almost 3 inches of rain in about 2 hours. That's alot of rain for this part of the country.Well, we ended up with about an inch of water in the basement that ruined the carpet.
My Garand hangs on the wall down there, so I figured that it was time to give it a good cleaning. After about a 2 hour scrubbing job, I was getting everything back together when a pin dropped out and the entire feed assembly( 5 parts) fell out on the floor.
I was feeling pretty sick about the whole thing and finally located my old copyof the Army Field Manual. After looking at the instructions and terrible photographs, for about 20 minutes,I gave upand sprayed down everything with WD 40.
In the meantime, I found the Civilian Marksmanship Program's website http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/reassembly.html . This website has very good pictures and great detailed instructions. Actually I had to download 16 pages to get me through it in about another hour and a half. So everythings back together and ready to go.
I n the process of finding the website I came across this picture.I know there are some people that aren't intimidated by this but I'm used to working with single shot and lever action guns that have three or 4 working parts.