M1 carbine

[slowG]

One of you guys here just sell me an m1 already :/

 

[DoggyDaddy]

One of you guys here just sell me an m1 already :/

I thought of this thread when I was at the Louisville show last weekend. There were tons of them there.

 

[slowG]

The 1500 is next weekend... Is there any chance one will be there worth a darn that wont be way over priced?! Lol.. So whos going with me that can help me find one?! Any takers

 

[slowG]

Whats a good peice of advice I can give someone selling this rifle?



not sure he knows what he may have..

 

[Splagt]

I believe the M 2 version is fully automatic, and as such, must be registered. Even if it currently has semi-automatic parts, the receiver is still contraband unless registered prior to 1986.

 

[Redtbird]

I have a new Kahr Arms that I like very much. Replicates a 42 or so version.

I've seen those advertised for around $650, and wondered about their quality. No major problems with yours?

 

[BigMoose]

RUN AWAY, RUN FAR AWAY!!!!!!!!!!

Unless it's papered, anything stamped M2 is a MACHINE GUN, regardless of current config.

Whats a good peice of advice I can give someone selling this rifle?



not sure he knows what he may have..

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I believe the M 2 version is fully automatic, and as such, must be registered. Even if it currently has semi-automatic parts, the receiver is still contraband unless registered prior to 1986.

RUN AWAY, RUN FAR AWAY!!!!!!!!!!

Unless it's papered, anything stamped M2 is a MACHINE GUN, regardless of current config.

I would not have known this, especially if it was now a semi-auto!

 

[slowG]

My pm box is cleared in case anyone tried to pm me lol...

im not sure 100% if it was an m2 .. Could have been distorted. I think he traded it locally so, good luck to him.

 

[Thor]

I would not have known this, especially if it was now a semi-auto!

I saw one on loan at a military honor park...won't say where. It was labeled as an M1 in the display but still had the selector switch in place. I pointed out to the curator that he might want to inform the owner (at least take the bloody switch off and store it separately if you're going to put it on public display!). During Korea (IIRC) a large number of M1 carbines were upgraded to M2 selective fire configuration.

 

[Michigan Slim]

Other than the handguard came off when I was shooting it, and it likes the 15 round mag feed better, no, I'd buy another. I have to now that my little girl took it from me! And I paid 600.00 with 8 mags. Never fired.

 

[ChalupaCabras]

Behind the AK series, Mosin Nagant, and AR15 series rifles, the M1 cabine is probably the most produced rifle in history - its high up the list at the very least. They are in no way rare, and the $600+ prices people are asking for them are rediculous, and artificially inflated.

'All matching' rifles are a point of contention for me, because most of them are make / forced. The government didn't give two craps about keeping all of the parts matching - when it was time to clean and mothball them, they threw all the parts into a vat of oil and re-assembled the gun with whatever part they picked up. Normal operating procedure gave NO concern whatsoever to keeping the parts matching, so the notion that a gun with all matching numbers is somehow more 'authentic' or desierable than a mix match is very silly. In fact, the mix-match gun is one that has 'been there and done that' whereas the all matching gun was either never issued (read: no history), issued to a paper pusher who never did anything, or is an outright fake / fabrication.

Nothing wrong or less desierable about a mix match gun.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Behind the AK series, Mosin Nagant, and AR15 series rifles, the M1 cabine is probably the most produced rifle in history - its high up the list at the very least. They are in no way rare, and the $600+ prices people are asking for them are rediculous, and artificially inflated.

'All matching' rifles are a point of contention for me, because most of them are make / forced. The government didn't give two craps about keeping all of the parts matching - when it was time to clean and mothball them, they threw all the parts into a vat of oil and re-assembled the gun with whatever part they picked up. Normal operating procedure gave NO concern whatsoever to keeping the parts matching, so the notion that a gun with all matching numbers is somehow more 'authentic' or desierable than a mix match is very silly. In fact, the mix-match gun is one that has 'been there and done that' whereas the all matching gun was either never issued (read: no history), issued to a paper pusher who never did anything, or is an outright fake / fabrication.

Nothing wrong or less desierable about a mix match gun.

True they did make a boatload of them, but they did it in only what, a 3 or 4 year period and then stopped?. The other guns were made for decades, and of course AKs and ARs are still being made. As for matching numbers, I never cared much about that either. Part of the beauty of being USGI is that the parts are all interchangeable between the various manufacturers. That isn't true with the reproduction guns.