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Do any of you guy's display your Carbines in your man cave, or do you keep them out of sight in a safe ?
I like to display mine in my small computer room where I can look at and handle often.
Here's a few pic's. The M-1 is a Quality Hardware, the M1A1 is a Inland.
BTW, I have no small kid's in the house, and no live ammo. on display, just for look's.
Any one else have a few pic's of how they display ?....Thanks for looking.
need 2 stands, one wall and one single display for my 11
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...CpvDjpg1-1.jpg
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Nice....
The only thing I had out on display in my old house shop was a 2X trainer. It got stolen and took almost 6 months to get back from the PD. Glad I moved to a quieter area. But still leery about putting items on display.
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Nice Jim, 2X M2 Trainer.
I live in the mountains in a fairly secure development and every time I go out I put them in the safe, takes a few minutes but worth it. There are times I do not go out for a few days in a row so it is no big deal.
Nice. The rest too...Quote:
Originally Posted by JimF4M1s
I kinda like the over sized training aids. I have both an M2 carbine & M1919A4 Browning in the original shipping/display boxes and a Garand on a display stand. Some day I'll find a BAR - Maby? I also have a selection of the oversized plastik training ammo for them & a couple of Garand clips.
Sarge
Love to see the pics of that stuff...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarge
I have a BAR I bought a few years back. I didn't have room to display it, and never open the box. And it's a long box.
Mine are safe queens.
JimF4M1s,Quote:
Originally Posted by JimF4M1s
I have plenty of room here to display it for you, please ship it to me.:madsmile:
My lone M1 Carbine gets 98% safe time, but 2% range time. It is one of only a couple of long guns allowed at the indoor pistol range. She is nothing special, old WWII vet that is a bit rattily but works fine. I appreciate this rifle for it's history and how easy it is to shoot. OK, maybe it is a bit special, because it is an M1 Carbine.
Mine sits in the box most of the time unless it's next to the door and if it's not there, there is something else in it's place.
Mine are safe queens too.
Get them out to shoot maybe once a year.
Lately, mine has been a safe queen, too. When I did the "Critical Infrastructure Protection" contract, patrolling dams and powerhouses in the mountains for a Homeland Security contract, I often carried it, and shot it VERY regularly, a couple times a month. Even after that it was my home defense carbine, hidden on a special shelf in the bedroom closet. Now I have the Kel-Tec SU16B with a red dot for a home/ranch defense weapon, so the Carbine sits in the safe. It has been about 6 moths since I shot the M1 carbine.
Yes I display my baby s. . Not much good in a safe.
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Nice!!!
Love the scope, never mounted mine. Tool pouch and spare bulbs under the latched door.
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In a word, no.
When I wasn't using the table to work on carbines I would lines these up during the day and put them back in the safe at the end of the day.
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Nice looking gunpile. Looks like a bit of everything there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hercules Powder
You have a great collection of the M1A1, I would pick out my fav. and put it in a display case in my man cave, that look's like a lot of work to do everyday. Thank's for showing your collection.
All of those M1A1's are gone and as well as almost all of the rest of my M1 Carbines. Now it's Civil War Cavalry carbines, pistol and dug relics.
Interests change, but that sure was a nice grouping.
I went the other way, Civil war, then Indian war. I live in Marietta GA. use to do a lot of relic hunting around here, lot's of civil war battles near my house, here's some of my CW bullet collection I have dug. parking lots and Wall-Marks have taken over most of my hunting area's now. a great hobby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hercules Powder
Also into Col. Custer and the LBH, got into old map's and gen. one Colt 45 SAA Military.
I only have two M1 carbines, one is a M1A1. :madsmile:
I've sure done my share of time around there too. That's considering where I'm located...didn't get any relics though.Quote:
Originally Posted by lboos
If Custer had survived the Little Big Horn or the Greasy Grass as the Souix called it he probably would have been court marshalled for dereliction of duty and disobeying a direct order. Gen Crook who was in charge of the operation told Custer to scout and report and not to engage. Locate and wait for the infantry and artillery. But Custer split his force into three the other two companies being lead by Major Reno and Captain Benteen they were able to withdraw to a small plateue(sp) and held out until the next day when Crook arrived. According to the Indians Custer and his men were wiped out in less than 15 minutes and Custer was not the last to go down. Another interesting fact is that out of Custer's detachment only two bodies were not mutilated beyond recognition. Custer because the Indians wanted no doubt that they had killed the YellowHair and the other was Captain Thomas Custer who had a long running feud with Crazyhorse. Crazyhorse vowed to one day eat his heart. When his body was found his heart was missing. Custer was overmatched and under gunned. While Custer's men were using the trap door rifle a good portion of the Indians were armed with Winchesters and Henrys and Spencers.
Lt/Col Custer would have won the LBH if it was not for the two disgruntled officer's under him Reno and Benteen who found it more convenient to retreat and hide under their wagon then to come to the aid of their commander as ordered, it is so easy to demean a true war hero like Col. Custer after his death when he cannot defend himself, he was defended by the career Officers and our Country's civ. leaders at the time, [I doubt you were there] They buried him at West Point with honors, and he is still there last I heard, unlike Maj. Reno who was buried in an unmarked grave for over a hundred years and both him and Benteen were known as cowards the rest of their lives.
Most of what people know about the battle of the LBH and Col. Custer now day's comes right out of Hollywood.
But, we all have a diff. opinion of history, those who study it, and those who get their history from the movies. anyway, it's a long story, Thank's for your opinion. ;)
Considering this thread so far, I'd hate to see us degrade into a discussion of "Custer did, or didn't"...but as an infantryman, I've walked the ground a few times and don't think an infantry platoon of today's armament could have turned the 5000 odd men that came out of the shelters on the plains to respond to attack. I think it was more than he could handle...and it was very sobering to walk and stand and picture being involved...on a very hot 25/26 June, 1876...
Different opinions are what discussions are all about. But this thread has moved from it's original interest of displaying carbines. Before it morphs into something unfriendly I feel it has reached it's end.