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The Greek ammo I've used is as MILSPEC as any other. CMP sells pallets of it. If the Garand was rebarrelled with a short chamber and not properly headspaced with a finish reamer that might explain the problem. Have him take it to a (competent) gunsmith with go/no go gauges and get it checked. (Your comment about "a beauty of a Garand" is an indicator that it has probably been refinished.) Aftermarket barrels are usually 10thousandths short so they can be headspaced by the gunsmith. I wouldn't recommend he shoot it until it's been checked. Attached is a photo of some .30 carbine brass I found at my local range. I thought I'd discovered a bonanza of once fired brass until I looked at it. After discussion with my gunsmith, he verified my assumption about it having been fired in a weapon with bad headspace. Hopefully the knucklehead didn't damage the carbine in the process. I would emphatically recommend against trying something similar with a 30-06.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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