Sentryduty's M1 Carbine

[imntxs554]

My thoughts exactly, the glue is still elastic and probably a good reason why it didn't hold for the previous repairer.

Sentry....To get Gorilla Glue to harden you need to some water....When I repaired Stock it did the same thing so i dampened a Hand towel then squeezed water all over it and then over night it was hard as a Rock. The water reacts to it then it hardens like Rock, but you probably know , it just thought I'd let you know cause it happened to my stock. NICE CARBINE !!!

Frank

[Sentryduty]

Here it is with the new stock and magazines.

[imntxs554]

Here it is with the new stock and magazines.

Sentry....That is a very nice Looking Carbine !!!

Frank

[Sentryduty]

Thank you Frank, it was the pitched discussion from the Feb. Amercian Rifleman thread that actually made me take the jump into finding one. I had first experienced M1 Carbines in a second or even 3rd hand manner, my father remarked about a hunting friend having one and it was fantastic for Coyote hunting, light handy, and excellent for that sort of pest control. He and the other fellows typically lugging a longer clumsy single shot 12 guage trying to do the same work.

The next exposure came from when I took my firearms safety courses in pursuit of my civilian firearms permits, the course requires one of the various types of gun "action" to be made available for class training. Hinge/break, bolt, pump, lever, and semi-automatic, the other actions were typical sporting guns but the semi-auto was represented by this short, lightweight, USGI M1 Carbine. I was already a young soldier by this point and was quite familiar with the C7A1 rifles and understood the praise my father had for the M1 carbine as a handy gun, it was just a featherweight even compared to a modern military AR platform.

Nearly 20 years later I have finally gotten around to getting and in a few weeks, shooting one, they are not rare in Canada, but I have never seen one at a range or other shooting venue.

[cipherk98]

Nice looking M1 Carbine! They're just great, fun fire arms. Something about the sound of the action and feel of using one that makes it a lot more interesting to me than my SKS, though ammo supply means I shoot the SKS more. Also really easy to control and keep on target. Enjoy it!

[Newscotlander]

Can you post a good picture of the serial number? I believe it is the highest serial number reported within the serial number block. The next highest is 999760.

[Sentryduty]

I am 999762 Inland Mfg.

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I'm not sitting on some remarkable find here am I?

[Newscotlander]

I'm not sitting on some remarkable find here am I?

Only if you're interested in the minutiae of carbines. If it was an original, as manufactured, maybe.

[Sentryduty]

It is most certainly not as original, but the number is as noted.

Interesting thing to discover anyway.

[M94/14]

Interesting in that it's near the end of the first serial block of Inland production, it ends at 999999. Conversely, mine is near the beginning of this block 239XXX.