I had one of those back in the '80s when I lived in Alberta, shot hundreds of rounds of machine gun ammo with no issues. They showed up with stellar barrels and most were DE nazified with hard done outside wood. All were marked 7.62 on the belly of the butt. No, you won't have any trouble with .308 either. Lots of us shot tons of that through them as well, as there were lots of them around.
Had a shooting friend with a Long Branch No4 Mk1 with a frosted/dull barrel which no amount of work could make shine like a mirror. One range afternoon with lots of free still available military ammo and many willing friends, shot it until the oil literally bubbled out of the wood. You could smell and hear the oil cooking. Too hot to handle.
Of course, afterwards, barrel no longer showed any indication of frosting at all and evermore.
Israeli K98. The thing that Hamas run into every day..... Perhaps not recently though!
Saw mostly Galil and M16A1 rifles in 1998-1999 when I was there although I bumped into an elementary school class on a field trip to Nahariya and all the teachers were armed with M1 Carbines.
I'll bet they were M2s, did you have a bit of hands on? Those are typical for second line use. or were in schools and such.
No, unfortunately I wasn't able to hold the carbine myself but I asked and received permission from one of the teachers to take her picture. I'll have a look and see if I still have the pic.
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