Was first issued an M1 in 1954 and been either issued, owned one, or both ever since.
Never found any warts on them until I could no longer use iron sights. Over time, after Burris came out with the FFII sight, a vision of a no-drill mount began to take shape in my mind until I finally had a gunsmith fabricate one for me.
The FFII worked pretty well for a while, until a developing cataract distorted the red dot and the cataract is not quite ready to remove.
A bit of scrounging turned up a Millet and sure enough, it would barely clear the mag. well with sufficient eye relief. The smaller dot, a bit closer to eye reduced distortion a bit. Its not pretty to look at, but would resurrect my old friend once more.
Definitely an improvement, but if it only had 2 to 4x magnification, it would be just perfect. Then I saw the Primary Arms 3X Compact Prism Rifle scope
Called Joe Bob’s @ 4:30 PM Thursday and they were kind enough to get one out of the warehouse and check three critical measurements for me. It will be very close, but should clear ejection port on the rifle and still barely have sufficient eye relief. The rear groove in current picatinny rail would even be very close to correct spacing if all our measurements prove to be correct!
The scope came in Saturday, 48 hours after order was placed. (That's some excellent service Joe Bob!) My rail's grooves were too narrow for some reason, but after filing the rear groove out .020” to fit the cross bolt on scope base, everything fit as planned!
The prism scope is a bit high, but with the strap on cheek piece it is easy to acquire a natural point of aim while maintaining repeatable cheek weld.
The only foreseeable issue is loading a clip. I'm a bit reluctant to make this statement from fear of jinxing things, but in 66 years of fondling Garands, I have never had the dreaded M1 thumb! The optic makes my normal one hand method of holding the op-rod back with the blade, or side of hand while pushing clip into mag well with my thumb a bit awkward. I am going to have to remember to use both hands while loading from now on.
The 3X magnification is a real improvement for my 82 year old eyes. Lo and behold the old girl is all dressed up and ready for the ball.
Darn if I don't think I just heard her whisper, "Let’s dance!"
Now to go out and call a coyote in to break the new combo in right!
Regards,
hm
Never found any warts on them until I could no longer use iron sights. Over time, after Burris came out with the FFII sight, a vision of a no-drill mount began to take shape in my mind until I finally had a gunsmith fabricate one for me.
The FFII worked pretty well for a while, until a developing cataract distorted the red dot and the cataract is not quite ready to remove.
A bit of scrounging turned up a Millet and sure enough, it would barely clear the mag. well with sufficient eye relief. The smaller dot, a bit closer to eye reduced distortion a bit. Its not pretty to look at, but would resurrect my old friend once more.
Definitely an improvement, but if it only had 2 to 4x magnification, it would be just perfect. Then I saw the Primary Arms 3X Compact Prism Rifle scope
Called Joe Bob’s @ 4:30 PM Thursday and they were kind enough to get one out of the warehouse and check three critical measurements for me. It will be very close, but should clear ejection port on the rifle and still barely have sufficient eye relief. The rear groove in current picatinny rail would even be very close to correct spacing if all our measurements prove to be correct!
The scope came in Saturday, 48 hours after order was placed. (That's some excellent service Joe Bob!) My rail's grooves were too narrow for some reason, but after filing the rear groove out .020” to fit the cross bolt on scope base, everything fit as planned!
The prism scope is a bit high, but with the strap on cheek piece it is easy to acquire a natural point of aim while maintaining repeatable cheek weld.
The only foreseeable issue is loading a clip. I'm a bit reluctant to make this statement from fear of jinxing things, but in 66 years of fondling Garands, I have never had the dreaded M1 thumb! The optic makes my normal one hand method of holding the op-rod back with the blade, or side of hand while pushing clip into mag well with my thumb a bit awkward. I am going to have to remember to use both hands while loading from now on.
The 3X magnification is a real improvement for my 82 year old eyes. Lo and behold the old girl is all dressed up and ready for the ball.
Darn if I don't think I just heard her whisper, "Let’s dance!"
Now to go out and call a coyote in to break the new combo in right!
Regards,
hm
