Standard Products patrol carbine update

Keeping in mind that "late features" were all well engineered improvements to the M1 Carbine's basic design to make it more reliable, I decided to "upgrade" my Standard Products mix-master with late features. After all, if I am going to possibly depend on it to vanquish villains, goblins, and Mujahideen, I might as well make it as reliable as I can.

Accuracy is dialed in dead on at 150 yards with RP FMJ and JSP ammo, and basic reliability is tip-top, with new recoil, ejector, and extractor springs.

It now wears a really nice birch Pot-belly and 4 rivit handguard, courtesy of Bill Hollinger. Thanks to WW321q, who I traded an early Quality Hardware slide for it, It now has a late model Type V slide with the longer dwell time. The final item is a round bolt, which is in the mail as we speak.

When I get it all together, and test fire it again (including the 115 Bear Creek moly bullets over 11 grains of 2400 for plinking loads), and post a range report and some updated pictures.

Post a couple pics when you get it together with the new bolt. :)

Well, got the stripped round bolt from Northridge Surplus ($69.00+$6 USPS) today. I had a new Inland Type III "WI" extractor, Inland Type III "RI" firing pin, new extractor plunger and spring, and new Type III ejector and spring. The bolt was listed as "USED VG", but it looks virtually unused. It is blued, has "AI" on the left lug, and still had cosmolene in the various holes and orifices. After cleaning thoroughly with Ballistol and lubing with Breakfree CLP, I assembled it and installed it in the Standard Products. Now it has the latest upgrades. I'll try to take some good pictures tomorrow in daylight.

Since the potbelly stock I put it in isn't blonde like the one I took it out of, I think I am going to rename the SP from "Blondie" to "Pork Chop" as in "Pork Chop Hill" Korea. Since the Inland is "Iwo", I think Pork Chop is more fitting for a carbine in Korean War trim:
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With Utica M4 bayonet attached:
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Round bolt from Northridge and Type V slide from WW321q
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Nice cross cannon cartouched Inland birchwood pot-belly stock and 4 rivit handguard from Bill Hollinger:
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"AI" Type III barrel band and Utica M4 bayonet
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Wow! ya got a pretty good collection there. Great looking rifle there too. Thanks for the pics. :)

Nice looking rifle, and nice grouping, I like it.
Just curious what is the date of your canteen?

Regards.....Frank

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Originally Posted by frankderrico

Nice looking rifle, and nice grouping, I like it.
Just curious what is the date of your canteen?

Regards.....Frank

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I think it is 1943. Some of the stuff was my dad's (grenade,first aid pouch, and ammo can), and other stuff I picked up, getting only 1943 and 1944. He went in in late 43 or early 44. The belt was a Signal Corps belt and had an iron ring on it. He was Signal Corp, so I was tickled to find it. He had told me about the ring on his belt (used to hook safety belt on for climbing poles and trees). I still have his ring, somewhere, though I wore out his belt as a kid playing war. I still have his helmet liner, 1942 field jacket, class A uniform, overcoat and garrison cap, Jap type 97 grenade, planning and minefield maps of Iwo Jima, and a bunch of other pamphlets and books. The US MK II grenade had been made into a cigarette lighter, but I lost the parts assaulting Normandy as a kid. I found the correct fuse and spoon at a gun show back in the 80's.

I believe that's the first time a pot bellied stocked carbine has really looked attractive to me. If it runs as well as it looks, you ought to be able to take "Pork Chop" Hill all by yourself!

Downright swoopy lookin'.

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Originally Posted by jmoore

I believe that's the first time a pot bellied stocked carbine has really looked attractive to me. If it runs as well as it looks, you ought to be able to take "Pork Chop" Hill all by yourself!

Downright swoopy lookin'.

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I agree about the stock, it is beautiful (THANKS BILL!) So far, she runs great. Several hundred rounds of various makers ammo (RP 110 JSP and FMJ, Prvi 110 JSP) from 30s and 15s with ZERO malfunctions. Dead-nuts on at 100 using a 6 o'clock hold, pop cans bite the dust! I'm going to try a 30 round magazine of the 115 Bear Creek moly bullets over 11 grain Alliant 2400 tonight, just to check function with those

I've got a canteen cover like that one - got it when I was a kid. It's marked 1918 inside one of the flaps. How about the ammo can - does it have a date? I still have a practice grenade I got in the fifties, but a neighborhood kid broke the "spoon" off of it - the replacement I found is shorter than the original. I agree about that stock - it looks great! - Bob

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Originally Posted by jmoore

I believe that's the first time a pot bellied stocked carbine has really looked attractive to me. If it runs as well as it looks, you ought to be able to take "Pork Chop" Hill all by yourself!

Downright swoopy lookin'.

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Well, maybe with Gregory Peck's help.

I'll check the can for a date. My dad got it on Iwo and used it to hold his personal items and jewelry making stuff in. He would make bracelets from the skin of planes that crashed on Iwo. There were a few still kicking around with family members. I had the one he made for my mom from the skin of a B29 that piled up crash landing on Motayama #1.