Yeah.....well, that's one of the reasons that those of us old farts that started out XC shooting the "Big Iron" went up at least one classification when we shifted to the AR......the more ergonomic platform makes that much of a difference!

If I may slide into "Coach Mode". With NOTHING pejorative intended.....the "problem" isn't with your loads, it's with your positions! The Garand in particular is brutally unforgiving of positional defects...that you are ending up looking like you've been in a bar-fight is a clear indicator that there's something wrong with your "rifle-shooter interface"....something more than a change in loads is going to completely correct. You need to accept the fact that the AR, and to a degree, your 6.5 (I've shot one several times.....it's a LOT like shooting an AR, and absolutely NOTHING like shooting a "Big-30") have let you acquire some bad habits that the Garand is simply exposing. Get back to basics.....analyze your position....are you "locking in", or are you "sloppy? Are you RELIGIOUSLY setting your NPOA before you start the string, or are you attempting to "muscle" your way around an NPOA "defect" (a .30 cal will expose this little positional faux pas glaringly in your rapids where it won't even bother you in an AR!)? All a lighter load in your Garand will do is (maybe) spackle over the defects that are the source of your problem...but they won't truly fix anything!