Sentryduty's M1 Carbine

[Sentryduty]

Thank you Frank, it was the pitched discussion from the Feb. Amercian Rifleman thread that actually made me take the jump into finding one. I had first experienced M1 Carbines in a second or even 3rd hand manner, my father remarked about a hunting friend having one and it was fantastic for Coyote hunting, light handy, and excellent for that sort of pest control. He and the other fellows typically lugging a longer clumsy single shot 12 guage trying to do the same work.

The next exposure came from when I took my firearms safety courses in pursuit of my civilian firearms permits, the course requires one of the various types of gun "action" to be made available for class training. Hinge/break, bolt, pump, lever, and semi-automatic, the other actions were typical sporting guns but the semi-auto was represented by this short, lightweight, USGI M1 Carbine. I was already a young soldier by this point and was quite familiar with the C7A1 rifles and understood the praise my father had for the M1 carbine as a handy gun, it was just a featherweight even compared to a modern military AR platform.

Nearly 20 years later I have finally gotten around to getting and in a few weeks, shooting one, they are not rare in Canada, but I have never seen one at a range or other shooting venue.