Sentryduty's M1 Carbine

[Sentryduty]

So here it is, I managed to find and Non restricted M1 Carbine, these are a hot item in Canada, they appear, and often are sold very, very rapidly.

Like all used firearms purchases there is some good, some bad, and some ugly.

Starting at the top it will suit my interest in having a good shooter, and being a clearly no original gun I can have some fun with it, without destroying a classic.

Overall this is a Inland receiver, with a serial that is 999XXX and in the last 500 built before they rolled over to that 7th digit of production, it features a mix of GI and non-GI parts, and has been rebarreled to Canadian Non restricted specification by fitting a longer barrel which measure 20.5" in this example.

I checked the bore and it is mirror bright, making it hard to visually pick up the riflings. I slugged it from the muzzle, due to the receiver design, with a lubricated tapered lead fishing weight and it came out as 4 groove, right hand twist, very slow rate, which I will check later. Measurements of .3005" bore and a groove depth of of .3045" which suggests a shallow rifling of only 0.002" However I am not sure how deep factory rifling would normally be on a standard GI barrel.

The bore is not a 2-groove so that relives one of my main concerns, and I will have to see how it performs under range conditions before assessing further judgement.

The bad.

The upper hand guard is clearly not correct, it is a stamped piece from a Civilian produced Iver Johnson etc. that will get changed at some point. I cannot verify if the folding paratrooper stock is genuine, only has a serial marking in the channel, unless an expert here can tell me otherwise I will have to conclude it is a reproduction.

The ugly, that stock is cracked, a lot.

It has been poorly repaired before, I will consider another repair or I may just fit a conventional Carbine stock as a replacement, I know about this from the time of purchase and it doesn't bother me much. I was genuinely concerned that I have had a busted GI M1A1 stock, but after looking for markings I am not really concerned that it is the case.

I have gone over the M1Carbine.Inc (and partner sites) to work on identifying parts and see I have, so far I am pleased with the foundation of what can be made into a good, or better little carbine.

Thoughts from the audience?


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