M1 Carbine I Inherited

[u2jimbo]

robertrwalsh:

Would that mean the Colt AR-15 I am considering buying to help Hilary and Barack meet their sales quotas of new weapons, would no longer be legal, too? It is currently listed as California Compliant at my local Bass Pro Shop.

 

[u2jimbo]

The other option will be to register it to the current owner, similar to what happened when the AWB was passed. That means you may possess and use it, but can't sell or transfer it to anyone else in CA.

robertrwalsh / jingles:

Are you suggesting that all owners of centerfire weapons in CA would have to re-register their weapons to establish 'current ownership'; remove it from the state; destroy it (and provide proof); or turn it in to the state?

 

[u2jimbo]

Here are a couple of images of the Colt Woodsman...

This was my dad's preferred sidearm whenever we went camping. His best use of it was to put down a porcupine after it had fired many quills into our Wire Haired Fox Terrier - Curley.

 

[Jingles]

robertrwalsh / jingles:

Are you suggesting that all owners of centerfire weapons in CA would have to re-register their weapons to establish 'current ownership'; remove it from the state; destroy it (and provide proof); or turn it in to the state?

Not all centerfire, only those they consider assault weapons. If the proposed law passes and you have an otherwise legal AR or AK type weapon, a detachable magazine (Mini-14, mini-30, M1, M1A, M1 Carbine, etc,) even with a bullet button, you would have to sell it out of state, destroy it, turn it in or register it as an assault weapon. If you register it you can't sell it or pass it on to family.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1663_bill_20160114_introduced.pdf

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1664_bill_20160114_introduced.pdf

 

[BUFF]

It is estimated that fewer than 3% of the "assault rifles" were registered by their owners when California enacted the earlier law. Connecticut can't even get their own police officers to register their personal rifles.

I like that M-1. Your dad was a craftsman.

 

[u2jimbo]

It is estimated that fewer than 3% of the "assault rifles" were registered by their owners when California enacted the earlier law. Connecticut can't even get their own police officers to register their personal rifles.

I like that M-1. Your dad was a craftsman.

Amazing to think how nonchalantly our elected officials pass laws that instantly convert life-long, law abiding citizens into felons. I thought the prisons were overflowing...?

My dad certainly was a craftsman, as well as a very skilled fly fisherman, a patient and effective hunter / gunsmith, mountain climber (10th Mountain Division), very advanced skier (crossed the Continental Divide in Colorado on one ski after a trainee lost his). He used his career in the military to live his passion for the natural world. I apologize if this description feels like bragging, its just as I get older and reflect on him, his life and the values he passed on to my brother and me, I gain a greater respect for his accomplishments.

He would have loved this forum!

 

[S&W ucla]

Nice woodsman! The 2nd series sport is a good pistol, one of my favorites. Yours was made mid 1948 if I read SN correctly 11,xxx-S All things woodsman can be found at 22 caliber rimfire semi-auto Colt pistol: .22 calibre Colt Woodsman

 

[Faulkner]

Jingles:
I had no idea what you were referring to when you mentioned you had a '43 National Postal Meter - I had some strange contraptions rattling around in my imagination! I started reading up on the M1 Carbine last night and discovered that there were many non-weapons manufacturers building these rifles. Some examples sited were IBM - it was the smartest rifle on the battlefield... :0); National Cash Register - the most expensive... :0); Underwood Typewriter... I wonder if it took dictation? Seriously though, it brought home the significance of the war effort to supply the troops. Certainly was "all hands on deck".

I find the development and manufacturing of USGI M1 carbines to be fascinating and I have a dozen or so books on the subject in my library. Interestingly, of the 13 prime contractors to manufacture M1 carbines only one, Winchester, was a firearms company.

 

[DWalt]

There was a Carbine Production Committee formed to ensure coordination and cooperation among all of the many manufacturers to ensure parts interchangeability, resolve manufacturing problems, etc. I think the .30 Carbine was the only military weapon to ever have that many makers manufacturing it. The M1911A1 had only five U. S. makers during WWII (Colt, Remington Rand, Ithaca, Union Switch and Signal, and Singer Manufacturing). The latter two made relatively few. Singers are extremely rare and valuable, only 500 having been made by them under an educational contract. The government decided US&S was more essential to the war effort for making railroad-related products than pistols, so they stopped production relatively early on. Remington Rand (Syracuse NY) made by far the most M1911A1s, just as Inland made by far the most .30 Carbines.

My High School principal was a production line worker for carbine manufacture at Inland in Dayton during the war.

 

[RobertJ.]

I apologize if this description feels like bragging

Not at all!

I think most of us, when describing the things our dad's did, it would sound like bragging. Stuff that they, at the time, thought nothing of.

And that's a beautiful stock, even though the style wouldn't be my first choice for an M1 Carbine!

Have you shot it?

 

[u2jimbo]

RobertJ.:

Yes, but it was a long time ago. My dad made sure our curiosity about his guns was satisfied on the rifle / pistol range. My brother got a ring around his eye shooting the 30-06 with the hunting scope; I got pushed to the ground firing his shotgun; almost broke my wrist firing the .44 Special. We loved the carbine and were pretty good shots with it. The smaller size worked for us. Felt good and the recoil wasn't so intimidating. We went deer hunting when I was 16. My dad shot one, pulled it up in a tree to do his normal gutting routine, only this time he handed the knife to me with the statement that if I was going to hunt, I had to clean my kills and either eat the meat or donate it. I couldn't do it. That was the last time I fired a weapon till I enlisted in '67 and haven't gone hunting since... Coming to this forum has opened a circle I thought was closed...

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Jimbo,

It is tragic what your father did to that carbine. But it is understandable. After WWII surplus weapons for the returning GI were a tool, a novelty, a prize. They worried little and cared not about originality or collector value while at the same time altering, customizing, nickel plating, engraving and SHOOTING them. The value and appeal to that carbine of yours is that it belonged to YOUR father. That alone makes it priceless.

Enjoy.