M1 Carbines Updated

[caryc]

Here are my two M1 Carbines. I decided to install bayonet lugs on them and I think they look pretty neat. I got the bayonet lugs from Ebay and the bayonets with scabbards from ArmyNavySales.com. The bayonets are repros from China but I was surprised to see how well they were made. The handles are leather but looked kind of funky. But a few minutes and some brown shoe polish had them looking like they should look.

My carbines are both Universals. I purchased front sight removal and install tools from Ebay also and I'm certainly glad I did. I would never try to remove those sights without the removal tool. The whole job turned out pretty good although it took a little fitting with a Dremel tool to get the bayonets to snap onto the lugs correctly. If you try this make sure you fit the bayonets to the lugs before installing the lugs on the guns. It makes it a lot easier.

Also they make two different sets of sight tools. One set is made specifically for the Universal Carbines and the other set is made for the GI models.

One of the carbines had been hanging on the wall so long that the web sling lost most of it's color. It was almost a gray color but I got a bottle of Rit dark green liquid dye and it turned out to be a good match for the olive green.

 

[jeffnles1]

lookin good

 

[don44]

Very nice!

 

[cyberscout19]

Good looking pair.

 

[Don Lovel]

Dad carried an Inland built carbine while in the 9th armored Div. And now he has three of the Inland guns and a Postal meter gun. He carries one of the Inland guns in a rack behind the driver's seat of his pickup with a 15rnd mag and two more on the buttstock.

At one time I had an Inland, but sold it off.

 

[eric conrad]

Nice rifles and great work on them. Thanks Cary.
Eric

 

[WendyZXZ]

That is a fine looking pair!

 

[holo07]

Wow they both look awesome

 

[coach]

A big thumbs up.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Looking good. Mine came with the bayonet lugs
Question!!!!!!!!!! Why do the original mags hold 15 and the stripper clip only holds 10 rounds. So were you supposed to only load 10 as we did in basic. Or load 15 and throw the other 5 rounds away.
I think the 30 round mag came out with the select fire M2.

 

[Fox Mike]

They are nice! That is what I was armed with when I was stationed on the Nike missile site. I always liked that little rifle.

 

[caryc]

Looking good. Mine came with the bayonet lugs
Question!!!!!!!!!! Why do the original mags hold 15 and the stripper clip only holds 10 rounds. So were you supposed to only load 10 as we did in basic. Or load 15 and throw the other 5 rounds away.
I think the 30 round mag came out with the select fire M2.

My guess is that 15 round stripper clips would just be too unwieldy, especially if trying to use in a hurry under fire.

Years ago, I purchased a few thousand rounds of .30 cal. It is all loaded in stripper clips and in cloth bandoliers in GI ammo cans. I forget what I paid for it but it was a good buy at the time. If I remember right, I think it was Sportsmans Guide that I bought it from.

Congrats on that M1 Garand, always wanted one myself. :mrgreen:

 

[powder smoke]

Very nice, too bad the surplus ammo has dried up, ah the good ole days!

 

[coach]

I just got this email today from buffalo bore for full power 30 cal m1 carbine ammo. No deals like the old days though.
http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8d9972c04d0eae33372ea0b75&id=77ea832746&e=cc2d1addba

 

[protoolman]

Nice to see them with all the accessories. Makes my wish I hadn't traded away my Saginaw steering gear division M1.

 

[Aqualung]

I have to get photos of my DCM International Harvester M1 Garand. It's not WWII, but more post-Korea vintage (1954). I have a bayonet for it as well.

However, here's my Inland M1 Carbine that I got from the CMP when they got that big shipment a few years back. Sling and oiler are GI, but the pouch is repro. It has an Underwood barrel and Winchester wood.


Cary, nice work on your pieces.

Wyandot Jim, that's nice hardware and a nice photo. Maybe I'll get the funds together to get a GI M1911or an M1911A1 to add to my collection.

Aqualung

 

[Pistolero]

Cary,
Very nice M1 carbines!

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Be nice if our new Vietnamese friends would SELL us back some of the many thousands of M-1 carbines we GAVE them back in the early 1960s and those they inherited from the French earlier. I wouldn't look for much in the way of condition on any of those that survived, tho.

I guess they'll have to sell all the M-2s to some impoverished but worthy terrorist group, since we can't have 'em....

 

[eric conrad]

Viet Nam 66-67 you could trade a carton of Salem cigarettes for a M1 carbine or 1911. Two cartons would get you all the beer and soda you could haul out.
Eric

 

[caryc]

Viet Nam 66-67 you could trade a carton of Salem cigarettes for a M1 carbine or 1911. Two cartons would get you all the beer and soda you could haul out.
Eric

Then all you had to do was get it home.

 

[SAJohn]

It was no problem getting them home if you were an officer.

As I recall, Audie Murphy sent more than one German to the happy hunting grounds using an M-1 carbine.

 

[mohavesam]

Be nice if our new Vietnamese friends would SELL us back some of the many thousands of M-1 carbines we GAVE them back in the early 1960s and those they inherited from the French earlier. I wouldn't look for much in the way of condition on any of those that survived, tho.

I guess they'll have to sell all the M-2s to some impoverished but worthy terrorist group, since we can't have 'em....

It'd be "nice" if the Executive would release the M1 Carbines sitting in Portland that have been imported already from Korea. I think I heard CMP has "first dibs" if/when they get released for sale. Some folks in the industry estimate from 30K to 55K guns waiting patiently... Yes, they are US-made but still considered "imported" guns by the ATF reasoning.
I reckon if/when they get released it will be a great time to be a M1 Carbine gunsmith!