M1 carbine

[PALADIN85020]

I have a number, but here are two interesting M1s.

This one is notable because it's a rare Standard Products example, in original as-issued condition. Most of the parts, including the magazine, are Standard Products manufacture.

This (Inland, of course) M1A1 is original except for the post-WWII upgrades of rear sight, safety, and bayonet lug.

John

 

[DWalt]

This was about 7 years ago, had a friend that bought an original, as-issued WWII Saginaw carbine (no bayonet stud, L-rear sight) at an estate sale for $200.

 

[andyo5]

Here's my 1943 Inland.
It has the Bavarian Rural Police marking on the trigger guard.

 

[BB57]

My Inland M1 - a post war rebuild with bayonet lug, M2 bolt and stock:

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

My Quality Hardware that I shot this evening.........

 

[jmace57]

I just packed up and shipped my nephew my Saginaw today. I never did take a picture of it. It was a Viet Nam sneak-back I bought a number of years ago.

 

[robvious]

just a std all original one... got from the estate of a navy ensign along with his 1911

 

[DWalt]

I just packed up and shipped my nephew my Saginaw today. I never did take a picture of it. It was a Viet Nam sneak-back I bought a number of years ago.

Actually, some that came back from Vietnam were used by the NVA and the Viet Cong. The French military, which controlled Vietnam in the post-WWII period, used a lot of .30 Carbines given to them by Uncle Sam, and when they pulled out, the carbines, or some of them, were left behind. Not too long ago there was an interesting post here by someone who had one of those VC .30 carbines, with several pictures.

 

[bmcgilvray]

Here's the Underwood that lives here, with some Army buds.

Purchased over 30 years ago so that I could quit bumming my dad's Carbine, it's a working gun for me rather than a collectible. An AR 15 lives here, but the M1 Carbine is to be preferred for my purposes. For instance, I did all-night gun show security for some promoter friends of mine this past weekend. The Carbine goes along when I do those gigs.




I grew up around the M1 Carbine. It was the first gun I ever fired when I was so young that my dad had to help hold it for me.

He purchased an M1 Carbine in 1945 from a Marine who showed up at the dock where his ship was moored in Pearl Harbor. It was a small ship, a PCE, and the captain allowed him to keep the gun on board where all appreciated shooting it at sharks and sea gulls while out at sea. My dad turned 90 on Christmas Eve and he still has it. Photos taken summer of 1945 and 2008.




My dad's Carbine is an original unfooled-with type 1 Quality Hardware with a Rock Ola barrel.

I don't recall ever not really loving World War II history. I remember being really young and not knowing that Rock Ola was a juke box manufacturer. I had the notion that the Carbine's barrel was marked for some battle it was in. The battles were confusing to a little kid's mind.

You know:
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Tarawa
Attu
Peleliu
Okinawa
Iwo Jima

... Rock Ola

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Very nice looking WWII firearms. The price, room in the gun safe and number of fakes out there will keep me away though.

 

[Jingles]

National Postal Meter. SN puts it at late '43.

 

[inspcalahan]

Not the best pic, but here's my Quality M1 Carbine with Rock Ola barrel. I've had it about 20 years. It's buried in the safe pretty deep, but this thread is making me want to get it out and warm up the barrel a bit! For such a contentious gun, in terms of the long argument about it's effectiveness etc, I sure do enjoy it. It's just "handy".

 

[HARDWARE]

which magazines and ammo do we like for these?

 

[6518John]

which magazines and ammo do we like for these?

We use the Keep SHooting 10-15 rounders and have never had a bobble. I think there are a number of junk magazine's out there but the GI originals--that I think are hard to find--and these from Keep Shooting have been wonderful for us. We keep the feeding ramps clean and the guns well lubed and we rarely have an issue

M1 Carbine Magazines and Clips - Keepshooting(R)

As to ammo we buy the Armscor brass cased. I think it is made in the Philippines but it shoots great.

30 Carbine Ammo : Armscor 30 CARBINE 110 GR FMJ 1000 RDS

We LOVE our M1's as shooters/truck and ATV guns.

 

[HARDWARE]

We use the Keep SHooting 10-15 rounders and have never had a bobble. I think there are a number of junk magazine's out there but the GI originals--that I think are hard to find--and these from Keep Shooting have been wonderful for us. We keep the feeding ramps clean and the guns well lubed and we rarely have a bobble.

M1 Carbine Magazines and Clips - Keepshooting(R)

As to ammo we buy the Armscor brass cased. I think it is made in the Philippines but it shoots great.

30 Carbine Ammo : Armscor 30 CARBINE 110 GR FMJ 1000 RDS

thanks for the link. i was having difficulty finding USGI mags

 

[bmcgilvray]

I love to use generic original military contract 15-round magazines. Not keen on the 30-round magazine though I have some around here. To me the Carbine is just "right" with the 15-round magazine. It's handier and better balanced. Looks better too.

Soft nosed bullets that mimic the shape of the military bullet work for me and are selected for using the M1 in a defensive capacity or for field use. I don't fool with hollow points, never had really good feeding results with them. Don't use cast bullets in the M1 Carbine.

Though several other family members as well as my dad's friends when I was young took deer with M1 Carbines, I never had and had always wanted to take a deer with one. Finally had an opportunity deer season before last. A small buck presented a broadside target at 49 steps. At the shot the deer gave me a mental flash impression of being hit with a .30-06, seemingly knocked down by all appearances of it. I was preparing to be impressed by the hit until the deer scooted along the ground nearly 50 yards, propelled by only his hind legs before expiring.

A postmortem found that both shoulders were completely broken down and only a shred of the heart framed a silver dollar-sized hole in the middle of it. Load used was a handload using the 110 grain Sierra soft point over a near max charge of H 110.

 

[Jingles]

which magazines and ammo do we like for these?

Well, If you live here in California we use 10 round mags. I had a whole bunch of 15 and 30 rounders once but lost them all in a tragic boating accident....

 

[bmcgilvray]

Well, If you live here in California we use 10 round mags. I had a whole bunch of 15 and 30 rounders once but lost them all in a tragic boating accident....

That's tragic. I'm not referring to the boating accident either.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

I love to use generic original military contract 15-round magazines. Not keen on the 30-round magazine though I have some around here. To me the Carbine is just "right" with the 15-round magazine. It's handier and better balanced. Looks better too.

Soft nosed bullets that mimic the shape of the military bullet work for me and are selected for using the M1 in a defensive capacity or for field use. I don't fool with hollow points, never had really good feeding results with them. Don't use cast bullets in the M1 Carbine.

Though several other family members as well as my dad's friends when I was young took deer with M1 Carbines, I never had and had always wanted to take a deer with one. Finally had an opportunity deer season before last. A small buck presented a broadside target at 49 steps. At the shot the deer gave me a mental flash impression of being hit with a .30-06, seemingly knocked down by all appearances of it. I was preparing to be impressed by the hit until the deer scooted along the ground nearly 50 yards, propelled by only his hind legs before expiring.

A postmortem found that both shoulders were completely broken down and only a shred of the heart framed a silver dollar-sized hole in the middle of it. Load used was a handload using the 110 grain Sierra soft point over a near max charge of H 110.

Don't use cast in the carbine?....Really?.........I've been shooting cast in my carbines/garands & a Ruger mini-30......Forever.......Never clogged a gas port.....Probably never will.....If it should happen would be easy enough to clean it out..........

 

[BB57]

I remember being really young and not knowing that Rock Ola was a juke box manufacturer. I had the notion that the Carbine's barrel was marked for some battle it was in. The battles were confusing to a little kid's mind.

You know:
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Tarawa
Attu
Peleliu
Okinawa
Iwo Jima

... Rock Ola

I know how that goes. My cousin and I figured out during mass one day that the "H" in the "Jesus H Christ!" we'd heard now and again stood for Howard.

You know...

"Are father who art in heaven,
Howard be they name..."