[Errant]

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My dad earned his AF expert marksman badge with the M1 carbine and he loved shooting it. He killed several deer with his universal built model and I've taken several running wild hogs with it. I like to shoot it now and then just to bring back old memories.

Older FR (2005) M1 Carbine Thread

[Joe 6-pack]

I've updated mine a bit to be more 21st century, but it's still a handy little shooter...

[Gaffer]

The M1 in the video looked like a high-wood (early) matched to a later model receiver/barrel.....bayonet mount, later sight, etc. Possibly an arsenal rebuild that kept the earlier stock.

I have a Winchester M1 Carbine original with early sight, early type 1 band (no bayonet mount) high-wood I-hole stock. It is the second best example of my Carbine collections (the first is an all-original Inland paratrooper model).

Regardless, the weapon he had was very nice.

[AppyPappy]

I remember when you can buy them at Sears for less than $100.

[TexasBarak]

I have a Marlin Levermatic chambered in this round, and I like it.

My dad was issued an M-1 carbine as a 2nd looey leading a rifle platoon during the Korean war. He discovered quickly that it would stop working if it got dirty (for example, with dirt thrown up by an artillery strike). He threw it away, and took an M-1 Garand and ammo from a dead soldier, and carried that thereafter.

He spoke poorly of the carbine, and highly of the Garand and BAR the rest of his life.