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Hey Kevin, welcome to the forums! I am very new myself and will only give information that I KNOW 100%. I recently bought a. I.B.M. M1 Carbine (about a month ago) and have been doing research on...

EXACTLY! Easy to reach and handy home defense weapon!

Believe it or not, I actually have a loaded magazine in the pouch and have thought about that if someone was inside the house, I would have the ability to have an easy reach home defense weapon. ...

Trigger pin FIXED...Thanks Jim! And so with the (lame) snap on the stock now gone, this would be the correct position for the magazine pouch for a right handed shooter, right??

@browningautorifle JIM, you were exactly right about the trigger pin. I just tore it down and reseated the pin. YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!~ I put two more photos down below (one of the trigger pin and...

@vintage hunter Sounds good...does the barrel need to be removed from the receiver to get the old one off and the new one on??

@INLAND44 I'm glad that you guys told me to get rid of it. I really didn't like it anyway and it is now gone. All that's left is just a small little hole in the stock and I can completely live with...

WOW Fred! There is SO much information there...Thanks for sending that! I just spent the last hour reading all the info there. Didn't realize how MUCH there was to know!

@browningautorifle I have one word for you...........gone!

@USGI Bob...I have looked SO hard for a stamp but couldn't find one. There are several places with a bit of small scratch marks on the...

@fn111557 I fully understand what you're talking about when you say carbine-itis. I haven't went out to shoot this rifle and I still love it so much! I didn't realize that the magazine pouch was not...

Thanks for the reply! It is Blue Sky Arlington, VA. The import mark is not deep at all...I had heard that some of the import marks were deep enough to cause problems with the barrel.

Hello to all!~ I just purchased an IBM M1 Carbine from gunbroker.com I got a great deal on it and it is going to DEFINITELY be a keeper. It came with a whole bunch of extra 15 and 30 round mags (that...