Complete Detail Strip of my M1 Carbine with Lots of Pics
I spent several hours this morning, doing a complete detail strip on my M1 Carbine in order to fill out the M1 Carbine Club's data sheet. Thanks for the incredibly helpful "how to" by DPD, which you can find here, I got it all done. I did not take the bolt apart though, I want to wait until I have my bolt tool.
Here is a link to my blog site where you can see all the photos I took, you need to click on each picture, twice, to bring up the largest version of the pictures.
The most baffling/interesting marking to me was on the slide "box" on the bottom, a large DD and then I noticed a small set of numbers, which are hard to read, even under high magnification.
Otherwise, as best I can tell, I have a pretty complete Inland M1 Carbine from July 1944, with no import marks and little to indicate an arsenal rebuild.
I also cleaned each part carefully and there was still a good bit of cosmoline in the nooks and crannies, which I took care of with long handled Q-Tips and Ballistol. Clearly this has been shot before, I got out black carbon, again, in the nooks and cranies, but rifling in the barrel is nice and dark, no problems there. Chamber looks great too.
I did a complete function test on it, and it chambers and extracts rounds accurately. Now to get it out on the range and see what it can do, or...what I can do with it. :)
It is not a sin to like the original finish
There is something oddly attractive about a stock of untouched slightly rough wood. I recall when I received my DCM Garand in 1983, a white sack rifle with new walnut, the FIRST thing I did was sand the stock. Made sense to me and looked great, but the issue was; it was only original once, you can't go back. Given that choice today, I leave it alone.
By the way, your stock looks great with that wonderful burl wood.
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