M1 Carbine Feeding Like Molasses or Not At All

[painter777]

I have a feeling scubatke, Will have most of the ammo he owns spent down range this weekend....

Cheers,
Charlie-painter777

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

You can't leave it at that. What was the issue?

[Bill Hollinger]

Yeah, what the heck Charlie

[painter777]

I'll report after hearing how his range session goes.

Cheers,
Charlie-painter777

[painter777]

Here's a few pictures of scubatke's stock.
It has the RMC in the slingwell with the Flaming bomb. I cut to low wood, NO Rebuild stamps, though it has all the late mods, except the Lube/drain hole on the housing.
Has the early QHMC Big Wheel Cartouche.
Not my best pictures........

About the stock.... This is a CAI Import, On the left side of the stock a 2 mil serial number is stamped, just past the stock's comb, just past that is the current actions serial number.

Question, Do you think the markings are from Greece, Italy or Israel..... or ?
Little help here Range Master!!

Thx,
CH-P777

[USGI]

My guess is Israel. I think I see a faint s/n underneath the current one. I have one stock that had a number stamped just behind the comb and they sanded it out (left a "dished" spot) before stamping the second number right where scubatke's current number is. The ones I've seen have a little more white paint in them than his. Did you change out his operating slide spring? - Bob

[scubatke]

Sorry to keep everyone in suspense! First off...thanks! When I originally posted on this forum I wasn't sure I would get ANY responses much less the overwhelming number of responses and help that I received....thanks to everyone who responded! Also, thanks to everyone who is part of this forum and has been part of creating, developing and maintaining a great group of people.

Big thanks to charlie-painter777!!! Charlie killed most of his day Friday going over all of the details of my gun with me (and cleaning it for me in the process). It was fascinating and I enjoyed my visit a great deal! I think that the cleaning certainly helped solve my problem but Charlie was right in an earlier post in that we found the flat spot on the extractor plunger was rotated 180 degrees out of position.

I took the rifle to the range yesterday and my son and I had a blast with not a single problem! Well...there was one problem...I thought 100 rounds of ammo would be plenty!

I loved the distinctive report the carbine makes when fired! As you can see in the image below, we're not going to qualify for any marksmanship awards but we had a great time and I'm looking forward to going again and taking my daughter. I shot the first clip on the right and my son shot the second clip on the left, both at 50 yards (maybe I should have used a larger target).

BTW ch777...I tried ALL of the clips and didn't have any issues from ANY of them. "Just shoot it!"

Once again, big thanks to charlie and everyone else!
Jeff

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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

There's only 10 holes on the left. You could give your son a full magazine?

[USGI]

scubatke,

Thanks for the great follow up! That sure looks like a nice range - we have nothing that nice available where I live. My two oldest Grandsons (13 & 15) visited today and we had planned to shoot .22's a bit, but decided instead to try learning to ride Grandpa's Honda 3-wheeler. That kept us busy and entertained long enough that we didn't get around to the shooting. After a bit more practice with the .22's, I want to let them shoot one of the carbines. I just obtained a 5 round clip with a "hold open" follower that should work great for the training and eliminate that problem of not knowing for sure if the clip is empty, or there was a failure to fire. I went through 6 boxes of ammo in the last week with my IBM, and totally agree about how fast the ammo goes when guys are having fun! - Bob

[painter777]

KEERRR KLUUNNNKKK....... KEERRR KLUUNNNKKK !!

Jeff,
THx for the kind words.
Seeing your son with carbine in hand makes it all worth it.
Now he needs his own !
Was nice meeting you, look forward to seeing you again.
Did you make the Novi show?

BTW,
Jeff graduated from the High School my Father in Law taught wood shop at, it is a small world.

Cheers,
Charlie-painter777