I just want to say, it is really a gift that you share your knowledge with us so freely. These videos contain such a wealth of information I feel like an apprentice absorbing all of Yoda's wisdom! Thank you sir and God bless!

This has to be the simplest and best explained elevation zero/adjustment video I’ve watched. Thank you!

Good grief - whoever would have THOUGHT of something so simple. Laughingly brilliant!

You are my most trusted Firearms expert on KZfaq. Thank you again for such an educational and simple solution. I look forward to one on shooting with 70 year old eyes. I can still shoot, I just can not seem to find glasses that work. The target is too blurring or the front sight is too blurry. Those days of 500 yard shots (easy) with open sights on the Garand are over. I have to scope everything to hit anything past a 100 yards. But I just can not put a scope on my pre-1900 Winchester 1894 (30-30) or my pre-1900 Winchester 1892 (44-40) or my Garand. It just would not be right. However, that really limits me to 100 yards with iron sights. I really hope you will do a KZfaq on how to get glasses that work for shooting for us less young shooters.

The Coast Guard was the last active service to use the M1 Garand. On our vessel, we had a crew of 150 but the arms room stocked only 50 M1 rifles. As a result, at annual range qualifications, 3 men used the same rifle. They certainly didn’t fiddle with the elevation drum. What we did was record the number of clicks for 100, 200, 300 and 500 yards on a notepad. When our turn with that rifle came up, we simply backed the elevation back down to the bottom and used our notepad information to shoot. Using this method, I fired expert consistently. On another note, I was a civilian employee (AST) at an Army Reserve unit for a few years before my IRS career. We had 150 pristine M14 rifles in the armory… beautiful weapons! I get orders one day to load them up in the back of a multifuel and haul them to Fort Carson and exchange them for M16’s. Those M14’s were shipped to some pissant “ally” nation. What a shame. The US GAVE 35,000 M14's to Israel in 1973 when the Yom Kippur war broke out. After the Yom Kippur war Israel spec'd every one of the M14's, and the 10,000 best ones were converted to the IDF sniper weapon. The remaining M14s were taken down for parts. The M14 with an attached 6x Nimrod scope was the Israeli Sniper Weapons System through 1997. In the mid 1990's Israel decided to go with a bolt action Mauser as their SWS. This led to having a bunch of M14s that were going to be surplus. So, Israel SOLD those free rifles back to Americans. I am not sure how Springfield Armory ended up with the guns, but they did. They brought the guns, minus the receivers (once a machine gun always a machine gun), back into the US

Thank you very much for the great presentation and simple, easy-to-understand explanation! Best regards from southern germany👍

Love love those rifles! Miss the days when surplus ammo was cheap as water! I also miss Fred's in shotgun news.

The Mike Drops jaw just dropped in awe...bam! Great tutorial with class, as usual.

So while watching your video your dog barked. Lol then my dog's barked at the television and I told him to relax. It was just Benny! I love your videos. Keep them up. Wonderful wonderful information.

Simple, simple, wins every time. Love the white Crayola crayon...

I don’t have an M1A, but I do thoroughly enjoy your tutorials nonetheless. Great tips that can be applied in many other applications. I think Benny just awoke from a dream featuring a very large rabbit.

Crayon really works, simple and clean. Going to try it on my firearm, so that I can see the markings. My aging eyes are not what they used to be.

You know i was just thinking about that after getting my m1A and to tell you the truth a wax crayon never crossed my mind Its been almost 7 years since ive seen one and now i need one for my sights

This man knows his business, I knew there was a much simpler way to do this then what I was seeing in military and other such claimed professionals. This man speaks my language, simple common sense.

Well done Sir. You’re always keeping it simple !

I don’t even own a M1A, but I keep watching till the end with benny

Like a teacher just to tell me Keep it Simple Stu... 🤗 !!! Nice to hear from you and Benny 🍀👍🍀

I wouldn’t have ever thought of this, great as always VIDEOS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👮‍♀️

smiple is the best...!...thank u...i love my M1A...!..great tips...!

this guy is straight from Heaven ! I love him.

Great video. I love it when Benny shows up.

I could listen to wisdom all day.

We used to have "white, red, green, etc grease pencils or China markers" that did the same thing and lasted longer. For field use, I use red or green. They went on the same way: rub in and wipe off.

Whatever useful knowledge I've gained on firearms ,I owe largely to you. Thank you and God bless 🙏 Give Benny a big hug from me.

Thank you for your informative videos.

Purchased my new m1a tanker 2wk. ago. Plan to use crayon trick and sight setup on mine. Thank you. Will do this before scoping. Have a nice day.😀

Crayola Crayons are staples for any range shooting bag. So is ladies lipstick and fingernail polish. The clear coat hard as nails has multiple uses from a replacement for Loctite to waterproofing primers on ammo. Fingernail polish can color front sights and color special loaded case heads the same as crayons can. You can mark shots on targets and they work in wet conditions for writing notes on targets. This is a great tip shooters seldom ever think about. ✨💎✨👍

I now have a project for the weekend. Thank you sir.

I was super excited to see that not only did you release another video but another that helps me tremendously. Thanks for all that you do!

Thank you so much for your tutorials. I did both the sight bedding and crayon groove filling. No wiggle and easily visible for my aging eyes.

Awesome, as always!! Thanks, GunBlue!

Thanks for the tips. I got my M1A Tanker a couple weeks ago, and am enjoying it. The 411 you provide is greatly appreciated. 🇺🇸⚔️🍕🍺👍👍

Amen! Loving the simplicity of all your videos. God bless.

If you were to add a little heat before you use the crayon it will cause the lettering to fill completely. Then after you clean off the excess apply a little heat again and it will set the crayon. You can thank me later (-;

Great videos, Thank You for your knowledge and information sharing.

I have a m1a standard myself and what I found out is to use women's finger nail polish "white" when your done and you have access polish use women's polish removal. It will not hurt your rifle and it looks like the factory did it.

What a fantastic tip with the crayon! Thanks!

Thank you so much! Your videos have been so very helpful!

Outstanding tutorial Sir !!!

Very informative and simple. Thank you!

This is easily the VERY best video of any kind I've watched all month. THANK YOU!

Best video I've seen. Hope you enjoyed your stogie 👍😉

Thankyou my friend for this I just got myself one of these beauties and can't wait to go thru her.

IT'S NOT JUST FOOD!! THIS IS AMAZING!!!

Thank you, GunBlue for this video. I will be watching this many times and when I get my socom 16 in.

Nice! Have a great weekend

Great little tips. My father-in-law and i started shooting his m1 garand and m1a loaded. Great videos keep it up.

Great video!!! Just brought my new Super Match home from the store and I will be doing these modifications and adjustments right away.

Good info and easy to follow. Thank you!

Very well done!

Very nice sir! I enjoy working on firearms. I just got done mounting a Leupold 4x28mm rimfire scope on my Browning semi-automatic .22 rifle.

Skookum!! Do you Nor'eastern folks know that term? I believe it originated in the forests, the timberlands here in the Nor'western region. That's the first place I recall hearing it, and often thereafter. It meant 'well done', a 'proper job', and so forth. I'm late to your series, after having finally purchased a Springfield M1A, and looking on KZfaq to see what folks were doing with them. I'm a few decades late in acquiring mine, because it wasn't a necessity for my safe full of mostly practical, functional arms. But it was a sentimental purchase, having carried and relied upon an M-14 as a Marine rifleman in Vietnam, 1966. Nary a problem, through several long, rapid-fire sessions, monsoons, immersions, and that red dirt on everything. I reckon you know what I mean. Anyhow, it still feels "just right" in my hands, 55 years later. Thanks for your suggestions, on this and numerous other related topics. Very worthwhile. No hot air, which is refreshing. But a lot of hands-on experience is quite evident. For a human sponge like me, that works. My regards.

Thank you for the instruction!

Awesome video, Thank you sir!!!

For white lettering a lumber crayon or industrial grease pencil works quite well too. (If you don’t want to raise the ire of the resident crumb cruncher by raiding their coloring book stash….lol)

Thank you so much for the video ... made it much easier

Another great video

You the Man Old Timer

I will give your method a try, I bought my M1A in March but have yet been to the range(shame on me). Thank you for posting.👍🏻

Hey gun blue, I'm a relatively new subscriber and love all your content. I would love to see a basics video on how to start with accurizing an M1A. You have a lot of videos and content already. But I mean a step-by-step guide as far as what you should try first then second then third to try and really fine-tune the accuracy on that ol warhorse the m1a.

Thank you for the very informative video!

Thank you sir, will be doing this on mine 👌🏼

I'm a little surprised and a little disappointed he didn't eat the crayon tbh, lol. good video

Great, Awesome, and Excellent! Thank You!

Cool, im going to do mine tomorrow 👍 Thanks!

Thats great! I have done similar, but with a grease pencil, otherwise same method. Alright Benny on the job!!

Best KZfaqr

Very nice, thank you!

awesome video thank you.

Great info!!!

Excellent video.

They say us Marines love our crayons, who's laughing now???

Outstanding, thank you.

Thanks!

The strongest of fudd lore. Bob Ross of color fills

thank you sir!

Great idea !!

Thank you, GunBlue

Thanks again sir.

I recognize that! That's the unflavored snack stick in my MREs! I really like the red ones though, they're nice and fruity and make me think of blood... Semper Fi.

Thank you!

Kept it KISS sir! Thank you!!!

I use white fingernail polish. Then I take a bore patch with polish remover and lightly wipe over to get the excess off. Great video

Thank you sir.

Just bought a garand and was wondering how am I going to see the faded dirty elevation readings at the range, now I know , brilliant ! cheers

A BIG THANK YOU!!! I'm surprised that Springfield Armory doesn't ship with highlighted elevation knobs because its so darn hard to see unless you got eagle eyes.

I use the testers but yellow for my knobs, But the trick is to use Lacquer Thinner instead of Acetone to take off the excess and put painters tape around the knurled knob and use a fine painters brush .. No problem and it stays a lot longer than Crayon… BTW if U use WD 40 instead of alcohol it works really quick and easy…👍

Awesome thank you sir.

Thanks...dad.

Excellent

Every Marine's favorite snack.

Thank you

Never thought to use a crayon. I use nail polish and wipe off the excess very lightly with a rag dipped in acetone.

Thanks Mr Gunblue490

2:13 Semper Fi, Marine!

thank you

Sir, I will be trying your crayon tip, thank you🪂🇺🇸

I noticed you have a blood blister under your thumbnail....did a garand or m1a get you by accident?.....thank you for taking thetime to make these videos to teach us your knowledge.

Great info I never would’ve thought of crayon. I’d like to point out though that M1A doesn’t mean civilian variant, it’s a trademarked name owned by Springfield. There are other civilian M14’s out there from LRB, Fulton, Bula and Norinco

Nice.