CMP Carbines

[AFJon]

yes. remember based on orders received (5K) compared to the number on hand (1K)/arriving in the next week (1K) you've got a 40% chance of making the cut

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Well base on the e-mail.

We have received and verified your recent order. You will receive other emails as the order progresses.


Your customer # is xxxxxx. The order will not show as pending on the estore until the Sales Department processes and assigns an order number to it. If you have any problems logging onto the estore, please let us know.
The shipping time will be determined by the amount of orders ahead of yours.

I would would have thought the wording indicated I had made the cut.
Oh well hope springs eternal.

[imarangemaster]

Man, I was tempted, but I am busy financially replicating a 1959 vintage prototype AR15 Just the NDS proto upper and lower were $520, and the early slick side chrome bolt carrier was $130!. Anyway, I have my non-import 6 digit Inland 1950s rebuild with 90-95% (re)finish with a new year only dated Underwood barrel with an ME of "0". That's pretty tough to beat....

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Impossiable to beat I'd say.Felt good about myself for not procrasinating & jumping on the chance to get a carbine. Hope I get lucky I have exactly 0 carbines. Gaping hole in my collection. Cannot wait to see the slick side AR.

[INLAND44]

I received the Email from CMP and thought " These guys are going to go nuts." and they did. I have all I need or want, two originals and a great shooter. I'd say that I'm saving my money for the 45s, but to pay $1K for a non- heat treated rattletrap like I had in Vietnam is not a good ROI.
I saw a video featuring Jerry Miculek. He said that the WW2 made pistols had only one heat treated part, the slide stop and were expected to last for 3-4K rounds before breaking. Now his late father in law and late B.I.L. the Clarks were pretty good 45 guys. I wonder if that is entirely true? I know that by 1945 Colt was heat treating slides. My F.Bob Chow gun was built on a 1945 made Colt, it was shot probably 50-75K or more when shot on the Army pistol team and it is so tight that you need tools to take it apart. So far from being worn out.

Either you or Jerry are a little mixed up. The slide stop NOTCH in the SLIDE was heat-treated along with the front end of the slide on the M1911A1 starting somewhere in the early '30s. We were beginning to fully treat slides as the war ended. Only a very few fully-hardened slides got on frames before production was halted in 1945. Colt continued with development of the fully-hardened slide and they began to appear on Government Models a few years after the war. You may have one of those slides on your Colt since Colt sold a number of them to the gov during the Korean war. Later, they bought fully-hardened slides from many contractors.

[DaveHH]

Thanks for the information! I thought that Miculek was wrong, but that's what he said. Seems far fetched that the Army would buy thousands of pistols that would wear out in 4K shots.

My Chow 45 is a 1945 vintage Colt made GI gun that F.Bob used as a base for this hardball gun.

By the way there was a very sad American Rifleman episode last night about how F.Bob Chow's original gunshop in SF was forced out of business by the communists in SF. I was lucky enough to meet and talk to F.Bob Chow when he was alive and talk about this pistol. He was quite a character. It is disgusting that in SF you can have open sex on the street or dine in the nude if you put a napkin down on the seat, but you can't have a gun shop open.

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I think I used up my good luck for the forseeable future. Christmas came early or perhaps late. My order must have been on the top of the stack of 5000 orders. My first carbine is on the road. Serial number indicates an early Winchester if my research is correct (1.2 million). Thanks CMP. Thanks USPS. May be hard to sleep tonite.

[USGI]

Wow! - Bob

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One of the lucky few. Early Winchester mix master. Winchester reciever & undated W barrel. Shield H sights Rock-Ola trigger assembly housing. Unmarked SA pot belly stock with a developing crack at the mag well. Felt very good until I saw another poster with mostly Winchester parts including the stock. Now I just feel just good.
Very happy to join the carbine fraternity.

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Turns out this is an Austrian refurbished M1 Carbine from northern Austria .U.S. Carbines in Germany and Austria
Very nicely blued barrel & reciever.