Gearing up to shoot my carbines again and have some questions.....

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There's one hang up I have, I don't have a bolt disassembly tool any longer. I don't know what happened to it. The thing broke. I heard you can get replacement parts for them.

When you use a gauge, do you need to break the bolt down? Anybody got a good way of doing it without the tool? And without a vice?

I have shot them in the past. But I've never got them to run 100%. Although I don't think it's indicative of being unsafe. They just jammed regularly. Stovepipes, etc.

How has the availability of ammo been? I haven't really checked. I have 4 boxes and that's it. Booohooooo.

But I'm just trying to cross my T's and dot my I's if my kids shoot them. For some reason I'm really nervous about it. One thing that makes me nervous is that the way the bolt fits into the recesses on my standard products is so much more sloppier than the inland. Like the distance between the bolt and the receiver. The inland is nice and uniform and close and the standard is sort of, well a little more, not uniform. I guess I always wonder if it is out of spec. Plus the standard products receiver has been drilled and tapped. And I guess that always makes me wonder if it could fail or crack or something. But I could just not let them shoot that one and only shoot the inland.

Anybody know off the top of their heads what the paratroopers serial number ranges are? This inland is 269,XXX. Seems like a low number.

thank you imarangemaster. They are nice. Especially that inland. That sling is WWII also. At least from what I learned on here I think it is.