Bavarian Carbines

[Jordan A.]

I have to tell you guys a story. I once had my pick of 5000 Carbines! I lived in Knoxville in 1995 and sold warehouse equipment and a forklift to the owner of INTRAC, Tennessee Guns.
Well I just happened to be a gun enthusiast and was invited to come see the new shipment of 5000 M1's that they imported from Austria. Unfortunately, at the time I knew very little about carbines other than handling a few at gun shows. Well, Charles, one of the owners told me to pick out what I wanted for $135 each. He never told me what he paid but I suspected about $75 each plus the shipping container that they came in. I spent about an hour till they were looking at me funny and gathered a stack of pristine carbines. I bought a total of ten with 2 Winchesters, and almost one of each mfg. excepting Irwin Pederson! Street value at the time was about $350-400 each. Stupidly, I told all my gun friends about my find and ended up selling 8 of them for no profit to my close friends. Anyway, it was a nice memory in gun collecting and I kept a very nice Winchester and NPM although they have a very small import marking on the bottom of the barrel and a Austrian stamp indicating use in the forest service. Just to go back in time, I would have mortgaged my house and bought all 5000 of them and I could be retired right now!

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