M1 Carbine...musings about the possibilities...

[Devious6]

I have 3 M1 Carbines - from bottom to top, a Rock-Ola, National Postal Meter and an Inland. The NPM appears to have all original parts except for the rear sight and the stock was refinished. The other two are typical mix-masters after post WWIII re-build. All three fire flawlessly - have never had a malfunction with any of them.

According to the last Garand Collector's Association journal, it appears that a substantial number of them are en-route from Korea to the CMP so there should be a bunch hitting the market in the coming year or so.


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[Arik]

The M1 carbine makes a lot of sense with an 18" barrel, walnut stock, Ultimak with AP Micro, and WML for those living in ban states who don't want to deal with neutered ARs.

The trouble is that, as far as I can tell, modern production M1s - and even old military M1s - simply are not that reliable.

Milsurps were but commercial were always 50/50. Some very early commercial carbines used mostly USGI parts and we're pretty good but as parts dried up quality went down. Kinda like with the M14/M1A1

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[MountainRaven]

I stand corrected.

Somebody should let Karl and Ian play with their reliable M1 carbine.

[glocktogo]

I stand corrected.

Somebody should let Karl and Ian play with their reliable M1 carbine.

I had the exact same experience shooting the CMP short course with a surplus Inland the way he did when he only got a bronze, which is to say multiple failures to feed during the rapid fire string. I still managed to place 2nd overall out of 22 shooters in spite of the malfs, just managing to get all my rounds downrange before the targets turned. Oh, and I was the only one not shooting a Garand!

As I stated, I swapped out every spring in the 60 year old gun AND magazines with current production Wollf springs and never suffered another malf again. Problem solved. I simply wouldn't purchase a reproduction carbine, period.

[bltzkrg]

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[misfit47]

Years ago it was popular to chop the barrel and install an l1a1 flash suppressor. Ugly then and ugly now. The carbine is a beautiful and fun gun. Just the way they are!