Love the Garand! I have several buddies who have them, and we all took them to the range on Memorial Day for some Garand action and plugged away in unison! (Turned a lot of heads)
I can’t imagine what it was like in WWII when they had those training ranges set up with hundreds of men firing Garands downrange at the same time (with no hearing protection!)
At ROTC summer camp in 1964 I fired a M-1 with no officially supplied hearing protection. However, we all had to have spit shined boots and we shined them using cotton . . .