As much as I want, I don't think I can shoot this.

**RCS** · 06-27-2016 10:07 AM

It really up to you to shoot your M1C or not ! you could always shoot another M1C too

I have some rifles that I just do not care to shoot: early nice low numbered 1903 rifles and early gas trap M1 icon

rifles. Some do shoot their original gas trap rifles with a firing pin change and possibly a spring change but there are a lot of repro gas traps around to shoot

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**Prince Humperdink** · 07-12-2016 10:27 PM

If I were a rifle,I would be overcome with sadness from being prevented from doing what I was made to do.I would want to be shot

**jonnyc** · 07-12-2016 10:55 PM

It was made to be shot, and it most-likely has been shot. I wouldn't abuse the rifle, but I would run it through its paces.
Would you let an AC Cobra sit in your garage and not drive it??? Of course you wouldn't. Well........I wouldn't!

**Bob Seijas** · 07-13-2016 09:23 AM

I agree with RCS. Would you mail a letter with your rare 1923 Airmail stamp? Attachment 74357

**jonnyc** · 07-13-2016 10:02 PM

I don't know about you, but I don't give away my old rifles after I have fired them once. Your analogy is a bit off.

**Bob Seijas** · 07-14-2016 11:11 AM

Yep, no analogy is perfect. The point is that stamps are intended to mail letters, but it's not a good idea on some... go to the post office and buy a shooter for that purpose

**cplstevennorton** · 07-14-2016 01:35 PM

Man this is one of the only Marine items I'm missing from my collection. I want a documented Marine M1C rifle. I have the Kollmorgen scope and mount, but it's on a 1999 CMP icon

M1C rifle. I keep on hoping that I will run across the serials of the Marine M1C's in the archives, but so far I haven't. They got them pretty late and the Archives basically stops when they first started to come in. Hopefully someday though those documents will be released for public view. I would love to figure out that equation.

I hear you though on not shooting them. I have a real 1903 Unertl Sniper and people make fun of me all the time for not shooting it. But all it takes is one faulty round and it's gone.

**Brian Dick** · 07-14-2016 01:40 PM

Life is short. Shoot and enjoy it. With proper care and maintenance, you'll never hurt it.

**Bob Seijas** · 07-14-2016 05:57 PM

strange things happen Attachment 74372

**jonnyc** · 07-14-2016 10:12 PM

"go to the post office and buy a shooter for that purpose"

Bob............can you shoot stamps, or does the USPS now sell guns???

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