Hi everyone, I've been collecting mostly Mosin Nagants for awhile, but I've been really wanting to get a US surplus rifle. I ended up deciding upon the M1icon Carbine.

So I bought this National Postal Meter Carbine at the Rochester gun show on December 5th for $600. This was one of the cheaper ones there, plus it was made right around this area which I thought was cool. Import marked by Century, bore seems OK, and overall pretty nice to me. Just a few questions/concerns about it:

1-The serial number is marked on the stock. From what I read I know this isn't a US thing, so anyone know which country may have done that?

2-The rear sight is kind of odd. Someone seems to have welded it around the 100 yards point, and I can't move it at all. I also noticed that ring on the right side is ground off as well. Could this have been a bubba thing or did the country that imported it maybe do it. I didn't notice till I got home (not knowing a whole lot about M1 Carbine sights) so I'm a little concerned about it.

Overall I can't wait to get some ammo and shoot it. The guy who sold it said that a friend of his is selling off this collection due to old age and bad eyesight. Anyway hopefully I didn't do too badly on this purchase (not as good as CMPicon prices probably but I'm happy)






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