[cruiserdan]

Originally Posted by photogod

I'm not a huge fan of short mags but it would be a lot easier carrying that over your M1, as well as being more accurate at distance being scoped. One shot one kill, for the deer's sake. Go sight in your scope for 300 yds and calculate rise and fall of the projectile. General duty hunting application the 300 WSM with 180's sighted 2" high at 100 yds will put you about 7" low at 300 yds. Since most shots will be 20-200 yds that puts your POI very close to POA. Just hold on the upper furry part out a ways. Good luck.

And as a sideline... I think most hunting loads are to hot for the Garand. Do you load your own Dan?

I do load my own and absolutely the Garand would be wrecked by a hot commercial load. The burn rates and pressure curves are way wrong for the gas system. My .300 WSM load is 66 grains of IMR4831 with a Barnes 180 grain Tripple Shock. My Current zero is 200 yards.
Th Garand is 46 grains of IMR 4895 with a Sierra Gameking 180 grain spitzer boattail. That load just about duplicates the military match load and will not hurt the rifle. I have a repeatable 200 yard zero and can easily run the sight up for 300. I would not be comfortable taking shots much longer than that. I do not want to make a mess.