What was the first M1 carbine you purchased? Where and how much?
Mine - a QHMC from a small gun shop in Waldorf Md. about 16 years
ago. $250.00. Came with a sling, oiler, and 1 15rd mag. :dancingbanana:
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What was the first M1 carbine you purchased? Where and how much?
Mine - a QHMC from a small gun shop in Waldorf Md. about 16 years
ago. $250.00. Came with a sling, oiler, and 1 15rd mag. :dancingbanana:
I can't remember the make but it was a typical arsenal rebuild purchased at a Houston Gun show around 1972 for $125.
My dad actually bought it. 1976, $100. Unknown to us at the time, it is an un-restored, unmolested, all-original 1943 Underwood (barrel date) with B-code receiver and all early parts. I was bummed that it had the goofy flip sight on it, but he was able to have the gunshop he bought it from put on the "cool" bayonet lug barrel band. Somehow, we intuitively knew that it would be good to keep the original band, and it lived for 26 years first in the gun parts box, then attached to the carbine with a twist-tie. Had it professionally re-installed a few years ago..................Phew!!!!!!!
My first M1 carbine buy was a Saginaw S.G. about 20 years ago. I paid $300.00 for it (huge amount by today's standards) from a guy who's brother used it to kill himself. Sad as it is, the seller was reluctant to tell me the story behind the carbine but when it came back with a police history I wanted to know what was up with it. I think he thought I might be unwilling to buy it if I knew the story but when I asked about the police history he told me they kept it in evidence for over a year. It was released to the family and put up for sale and that is where I came in. :)
About 1982 or 1983, I was a cop in Bellevue Washington. An old guy had a gunshop just off of Bel-Red rd. He had a DCM Winchester there. I paid around $600 for it, a bunch of Lake City and Winchester military ammo, an original canvas bag, about 10 GI 15 round mags, and 3 or 4 USGI 30s... I bought it despite the fact it had a green-gray pakerized finish, ugly little flip sight, skinny little barrel band with no bayonet lug, and a stock with an odd I shaped sling cut. To make it worse, it had a dirty old sling with rusty tips that looked like a capital C. I had no idea then that these were desirable features, and later traded it straight across for one that had a bayonet lug and adjustable rear sight... I thought I got the better end of the deal. WAS I STUPID, OR WHAT!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, did I mention that it shot under three inches at 100 yards from a sandbag rest??????
Through the subsequent years, I have had too many carbines to count, since being an FFL and the influx of Blue skies in the late 80s. For most of the 20 years I was a LEO, I carried and qualified with a carbine as a trunk weapon. Now I have a CMP Inland racker (more like service grade tack driver) and a Saginaw barreled receiver (from a stripped CMP carbine) that I built into a mid-war with a repro flip and barrel band. The rest is correct mid-war, mostly Inland, parts and stock.
My first .30 carb. was an Iver Johnson I purchased from Woody's Pawn Shop in Orangeburg,S.C. in 1988. Paid $110 for it and a box of W-W HP ammo. Jack, I worked in/around Waldorf, Md in the summer of 1993 and I'm pretty sure I've been to the shop where you bought your carbine. I worked for a co. out of Oklahoma that built the foundations for cell phone towers. There was a big race track about a mile up the road from the first one we built. Beautiful country up there.
Actually, to revise my earlier post---my FIRST "M1 Carbine" was actually one of the Crossman BB guns. I think I got it when I was around 10 or 11--it took my dad a little while to find a real M1. I would have been happy with (and actually wanted as my first choice) a Universal. His feeling was that it should be USGI, hence the wait. Glad he did!!!!
My first one was an AO that my wife bought me for my 40th birthday:dancingbanana:
My first one was a Rockola I found at a small pawn shop about ten years ago. I hadn't seen one in years at that time and fell in love with it when I first saw it.
I just came across some photos of it recently when I was reiring my old desktop computer that was in my old office.
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I have mentioned the story before, but the first carbine I ever fired was my cousin's. Growing up in the 50s, I knew my dad and uncles carried M1 Carbines in the Pacific, and they intrigued me. The my cousin, a Postal Inspector stationed in Hazard KY, got one because he wanted some firepower. When visiting him when I was about 10 (give or take a year or two) we went to a rock quarry and went shooting. I fired his M1 carbine at about 60-75 yards and hit a Bubble Up pop can on the second or third shot. I WAS IN LOVE! I had that can for many years. It was the first center fire rifle I ever fired. Later watching "Combat" as a kid on TV, my interest continued. The other kids wanted Sgt. Saunder's Thompson or Kirby's BAR. I wanted the Lt. Hansen's carbine! It wasn't until I was a cop in Washington State in the early 80s where I could afford one! As Paul Harvey used to say, "Is the rest of the story!"
I'm new to this forum, so hello to all!
My first "M-1" carbine was a Universal copy of the M-1 for $85 back in the late 70's. The gunshop I bought it at had a whole bunch of various M-1 carbines that had been released for sale by the Miami Police dept.. I'm guessing they caried them in their cruisers at one time as the one I bought had C-32 stamped on the bottom of the pistol grip and MPD electro-penciled on the magazine.
Anyway, years later I wanted to kick myself because the salesman had showed me an all original looking Winchester with the flip sight and no bayo lug front band. The stock was darker and a little more dinged than the Universal but nothing bad. It was about $15-$20 more, so guess which one I took!!! To be young and ignorant!! Now I'm older and...never mind!
A Rock-Ola in 1972 $90.00 with two 30rd mags full. Still have it and it has been a good breeder and I now have a few more.
Inland Service grade - CMP about 3 years ago for $495...............
First carbine was an Inland rack grade from the CMP over a year ago. Came here with questions about marks, shrunken stock pouches, etc. Man have I learned a lot! :thup:
But I am keenly aware of one perversity of the Universe, the more you learn the less you know!
Welcome to the forum (and don't kick yourself)Quote:
Originally Posted by stan61
I think most all of us have done similar things in the past. It's just part the (sometimes painful) learning curve.
AMEN! My first carbine was a unmolested Winchester with "an ugly flip sight and no bayonet lug, for gosh sakes" which I traded for one with the desirable adjustable sight and bayonet lug.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafdfw
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In the late 60s, $150 turned out to be an original Winchester. Still have it.
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Last year a SP with a Underwood barrel from an Club member of my gun club. It came with all the reloading equipment that i need for my Dillon and thousand cases for $450.
That, mein Herr, was a great deal! Wunderbar!!
Danke schoen!
My first M1 Carbine was a Plainfield. I got it from a local gunshop for $75 sometime in the late 70s. When I got Ruth's first little book about M1 Carbines and found out that it wasn't G.I. I traded it to Midway[ they were just a little gunshop then] for a Inland. I don't remember for sure, but I think paid another $50 more. That would have been inthe late 70s or early 80s. Bill
I bought mine on 8-3-90. It's a Winchester and I paid $127.20. I love my carbeen. I also had the m1 carbine bb gun and I also watched Combat. Oh the good old days.:runaway:
I bought my first one, a Saginaw S'G' in May of 2003. A worker at a local sawmill had died and he owned quite a few guns. His only family was located in the Midwest and when they came to settle the estate, they sold all of his guns to a local dealer. There were several Garands and Carbines in the sale. When I got to the gun store I think there were maybe three of the carbines left to chose from. Naturally, I picked the one that looked "brand new." Live and Learn! :banghead: It's an Arlington Ord rebuild with upgraded parts and all new wood. It was $425 plus $10 for the background check. I'll never know what the others were, because I never gave them a second glance after I saw the "new one." - Bob
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The first one I ever purchased was an Inland M1A1 all original and unmolested in Sept. 1960. Paid $75.00 for it. :)