Attachment 312980Attachment 312981Attachment 312983 my winchester rebuild m-1 carbine, one of the best shooting m-1 carbines i have owned over the years.
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Attachment 312980Attachment 312981Attachment 312983 my winchester rebuild m-1 carbine, one of the best shooting m-1 carbines i have owned over the years.
I just looked up my receipt for the last M-1 Carbine I bought. It was service grade Inland purchased from the CMP in 2007. The price was $495. Looks like it has appreciated quite a bit since then.
eastbank
Very, very nice.......
I purchased my inland back in the early 90s for $175.00
There was a rack of about five or six of them
Been meaning to pull it out the safe and sell it.
Glad to see the pricing is $1000+
I just purchased a used barrel for the Inland that I am building for $175. By the time it's finished I'll be into it for over $1000. Maybe I should just build a time machine.
GARANDDAD -- the way I look at it's making the best of the short time we have on Earth :). Interestingly I am a bread baker -- and NOT considering the pans, gas oven fuel, and time -- JUST the ingredients -- my bread comes in at a higher price than similar loaves purveyed in supermarket. But. my home made bread, again, is comparable to your Inland build! When it's finished, it will no doubt be priceless! If my memory serves me well, I recall Inland Division of General Motors produced 43.10% of all M1 carbines -- 2,632,097 recorded -- and while this number seems "huge" -- between those lost, destroyed/de-mil'd, and given to other countries to never have been returned -- each and every one remaining is most precious! Enjoy your build!!!
geo
I don't believe I've ever seen a M1 carbine that had a barrel that was shot out. They didn't use corrosive ammo
in the carbine. If barrel looks decent, I wouldn't be afraid it wouldn't shoot well.
I shot the barrel out of an M2 Carbine once. Had the time, had the ammo, had magazine loaders........ was a long time ago in a land far away on my second trip there....I would sit on the firing line of the range with the afore mentioned along with a case of, if i recall correctly, Lone Star beer... Those cans were real tin cans and had some sectional density so after swilling the beer I'd toss the can down range and follow it with several 30 round bursts.....After several days, several cases of ammo (two 600 round tuna cans in each case) and several cases of beer the M2s barrel was toast, the inside of the stock and handguard were well chard and all that "recoil therapy" helped alleviate the stress.....