M1 Carbine Estate Find Q's

[sooperfly]

I posted this on a couple other boards, but they seemed a bit slow. Found this board and thought I'd ask here!

Was wondering if you guys had any thoughts on this...
I'm not to familiar with carbines.

I picked up a bunch of M1 stuff from an estate recently. Included was one new unassembled Springfield commerical receiver, one new barrel ( I don't know the make ), a bolt, a couple barrel bands, buttplates, spare stock, and two complete carbines.

One of the carbines is an Underwood, and one is an Inland. They both appear to have been completely rebuilt/restored? , and look unfired. They each have what appears to be a correct sling with the oiler.

The catch? They have both been rebarreled in 5.7 MMJ. I did some searching around to learn about the cartridge, and it looks like a pretty neat little round. The package came with a full ammo can ( 1,000 rounds maybe? ) of loaded 5.7 ammo on stripper clips, and maybe a couple hundred more unprimed cases.

Should I try and find a correct barrel for each gun or would you think somebody would be interested in having them in the 5.7 chambering?

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[Bubba-7]

I would sell everything you have and buy one nice 30 cal. carbine.
You can make a profit and sell to someone who likes the 5.7.
I would keep one of the 5.7 if you reload.
The spare barrel you have is a HERLO chrome lined.

[sooperfly]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Ok, I did a quick search on "herlo" barrels and it seems the chrome lined ones are iffy ? Maybe I should throw it up on GB and take whatever I get for it ?

[Bubba-7]

The slow twist HERLO barrels are junk. I wrote an article for the CC NL about them last year.

[lbelflowers]

Contact me,I can help you out.

lbelflowers@embarqmail.com

Loren

[Neal Myers]

Unfortunately, the 5.7 MMJ conversion never became popular. With the passage of years, there are no longer gun magazine articles about it, & most folks aren't familiar with it. I have seen several guys walking around with them at gun shows trying to sell them (without success).

It's really not cost effective to rebarrel carbines for sale. A nice USGI barrel wil cost $400-500, installed. Some fellas are sitting on barrels & can do the job themselves, so just list them AS IS on a auction site & you should do OK.

You should do well selling the SA Inc receiver, as it is a decent receiver to use for a build.