New guy saying 'Hello!'

[2AD_Vet]

Hi Folks, new guy here. I frequent numerous forums and just tripped over this one today - it looks like a great forum and from the responces i read so far, it looks like there are some real knowledgeable folks that post here. I look forward to gaining some great information from here in the weeks to come.

I thought I would share my M1 Carbine. it is a 1943 Standard Products SN 2075xxx. I had it fully restored a few years back by a company called MilTech. They did a great job and ensured it was safe to shoot, and had all the correct parts for the original manufacture and date of issue.

I shoot it quite reqularly and after all these years, it still is a trouble free, accurate weapon that always turns a head or two at the range.

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[Bill Hollinger]

Very nice looking STD PRO you got there. Welcome to the site. Where abouts are you in Kaliforniev? Please enjoy the site.

[Rustship]

Looks nice, need more pictures. Welcome aboard!

[frankderrico]

"DITTO" what Bill and Rusty said.
You're going to like this forum.
Also check out the other pages here on MILSURPS!!!.....Frank

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Bill,
Looks like Sunnyvale, Mountain View area up here in the bay area.

jismail,
Welcome.
When you say shoots well do you mean about 3"-4" at 100 yards?

[2AD_Vet]

Thanks for the welcome guys, I am in the South San Jose area. Shoot quite a bit down at the Metcalf Shooting range.

As for 100 yrd groupings, well, sorry to say my eyesight isnt good enough to use iron sights and claim any type of groupings at that range, but at the 50 yrd range, I can put rounds in a 2"-3" circle all day long. Not very impresive by some peoples standards, but for me, I am pretty happy with it.

[imarangemaster]

welcome to the forum. It is a great place. Nice carbine! Nice thing about M1 Carbines in Kalifornistan (I can say that because I lived there for years, and am moving back in the next year), is that it is a "Featureless rifle" so you can use legal pre-ban High caps if you own them. All USGI High caps are preban, since they have not produced any since Vietnam. Since I carried it as a CA LEO trunk weapon, I have LOTS of pre-bans!

[tx81]

Bill,
Looks like Sunnyvale, Mountain View area up here in the bay area.

jismail,
Welcome.
When you say shoots well do you mean about 3"-4" at 100 yards?

I have a RockOla '43 model that my dad bought for my grandfather back in the 60's. It was 'returned' to me by my uncle who had used it for a varmint gun for a couple of decades. Varmint gun - 2 or 4 legged varmints.

I took it out to a range one day north of Austin and found that a pistol club had left some of their toys out from a shoot over the weekend. Toys - the things that drop or twirl or show some sign of being hit then return. Loaded a 20 round clip with 15 rounds and found out the carbine is still just as accurate today as the year it was made. Hit 12 of 15 toys downrange and know that the other three weren't too far off.

Oh, the pistol folks were standing at ranges out to about 50 feet or so. I was back on the bench with a nice rest at 100 yards. I though that was quite impressive.

RR