Took the Inland for a walk today

[imarangemaster]

What a heck of a day! Got everything rounded up, my friend George picked me up, got to the Como MS range (45 minutes away) and set up. I went to the trunk and discovered I had left my ammo cam with all my ammo and magazines at home in the gun safe! Called my wife (God bless her) and talked her through opening the safe. She grabbed the ammo and brought it down. I owe her.

Shot the M1 Carbine first. Great, dead on at 25 yards with R-P soft point ammo. First group was high and dispersed on the 25 yard sight in target. It was shot from a hard rest of 2x4s. Second group was much tighter and dead-nuts on. It was shot from a padded rest supported by the off hand. Checked the can for more ammo, and found I had only thrown in a 15 round magazine loaded with soft points that I was using to check POA compared to FMJs. No more carbine ammo. I had left the RP FMJ in the safe...No 100 yard shooting with the carbine.





I am wearing an original early 60's vintage set of Beo Gam "Duck Hunter" fatigues used by Advisers and Seals in Vietnam 1960-1964, It was commercially made by KAMO, and sold through sears, The government bought them for the troops, since they did not have suitable cammo for them


Next took the XM16E1 clone. First checked the battle sight. I knew I would need to adjust it, as I had taken the great CMP C barrel off the 604 upper and put it on the 603 upper. Good news and bad news: Good news is that it is still as accurate, doing a 1/2-5/16"ish group at 25 yards. Bad news is that at 25 yards with the rear sight centered, it barely made the paper. It was about 4+ inches left of center of the battlesight target! 3 clicks moved it a little, but even with the sight all the way to the right, the group was still left of center. Since I had the rear sight centered on the 604 upper with the same barrel, I suspect the index notch on the 603 upper is slightly off. I'll have to take a little off the left side of the notch, then peen the right side to move (rotate barrel) the front sight left. Did this on Air Force GAUs in the Armory when they shot too much to one side.

Also test fired my FEG Israeli Police contract Browning HiPower clone with 100 rounds. i had replaced the springs with Wolff replacements. 100% reliable, and dead on.

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[Amsdorf]

Nice shooting and good looking Carbine.

[frankderrico]

Nice shooting RM. The M16 turned out nice. Like the camo also.....Frank

[imarangemaster]

Thanks, it is a CMP racker that I gave $419 for. It had a highwood I cut RMC stock that I sold for over $250, and I bought this pot-belly for $50. That means I have only $219+$25 shipping in it! The muzzle erosion is just over a 1. It is my favorite long gun. I would be happy with the Inland M1 Carbine, my 10-22 Ruger (bought in 1973), my Remigton 870 Express slug gun (with extra 26 inch Rem-choke barrel), and my 9mm Hipower pistol ( a Hungarian made Israeli police trade in Browning Hipower clone that I paid $219 for, and is deadly accurate!)

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Nice shooting RM. The M16 torned out nice. Like the camo also.....Frank

Thanks, Frank. Here's the AR. It is a partial fence Nodak Spud XM16E1 lower with all Colt 603 parts. Duplicated a 1964 XM16E1. It is what I had in basic.

[Rustship]

It has the classic look. I like it

[Bubba-7]

LOOK, there is a silver APC to your left. Better put a few rounds there just in case the VC are behind it.

[imarangemaster]

LOOK, there is a silver APC to your left. Better put a few rounds there just in case the VC are behind it.

Haha! That is the range officer's truck. I don't think he would appreciate it. He had a 10 pound M4gery with laser, red dot, rails, grips extra batteries in the VOLTOR stock. I had a 6 pound AR the way Stoner's team intended!

[DaveHH]

and rattle the barrel around, eyeball it to vertical and then retorque it down. I had a similar problem and thought the barrel was bent it was so far off. I remounted it and retorqued it and it shot spot on with no sight adjustments needed. If that is a 1/12 chrome GI barrel, you can shoot 55grs and they are dirt cheap to reload, and will group 2" or less at 100 yds all day..

[imarangemaster]

I had to tighten it that tight to get the gas tube to index in the teeth of the barrel nut. Last night I broke the barrel loose and secured the receiver in a vise and re-did it. I had used a barrel vise first time. This actually makes a difference. The index pin was absolutely snug in the index slot of the upper, so I relieved it about the thickness of a piece of bond paper, set the barrel index pin against the left side, and peened the right side to keep it secure. It should be pretty close now. I'll find out at the zombie three gun match on Halloween!

[INLAND44]

You have that Carbine dead nuts on the money!