It might be brainless, with no logic, but....

[SharpsDressedMan]

whenever I pick up my M1 Carbine, it just feels right, and a smile comes to my face. I know anyone of my bigger rifles might be a better gun to fight with (M1 Garand, AK's, Springfield 03A3, Remington 700's, even my Winchester 94), but the Carbine just feels like..........fun, even before I shoot it. Does anyone else suffer from this apparent weakness, for the Carbine, or for any other gun?

 

[Visionz45]

M1 and me....I just end up driving my thumb into my nose a dozen times. Maybe I'm just a spoiled M16 platform kid. They're really cool though, I certainly wouldn't have wanted one in Iraq.

 

[Ky Larry]

Not a rifle, but my 6" Python just feels right. Makes me every time I pick it up.

 

[Tommygunn]

The M-1 Carbine was a good weapon for urban fighting. It was used that way in WW2 pretty successfully, and also in the Pacific where there was a lot of fighting done in jungle environments.
Where it failed was in areas where a lot of long distant shooting was involved .... open fields, and other more "open" areas in which a lot of longer range fighting was done. It was here that the Garand was the true king of the war, so to say. The Garand with it's .30-'06 round was truly able to reach out and touch the enemy ... and effect him. The carbine round could go a fair distance, for sure; in fact the early flip sight was graduated to 150 yards and 300 yards. Now, it will do 300 yards. But it won't be accurate or very powerful. And that's why you would need the Garand for those longer range shots.
Still, the carbine is very easy to handle, has a good amount of firepower (15 round mag nearly doubles the Garand's capacity) and if your not trying for a long range championship it will serve you well.

 

[car15bill]

I received a rack grade inland a few months ago, and feel the same way. I have lost interest in all of my other guns for the moment, it is too much fun to shoot the carbine, I really need a progressive press and some dies so i can shoot it as much as i play with it!

I think the biggest reason i like it is because it has came so far, it was rough when i got it, but now after a bunch of tung oil, clp, and q tips, it looks good. and after putting new springs and bolt hardware in, it has no more hiccups either. definetly came a long way from when i got it in february.

 

[MCgunner]

Those carbines are cute and I love the look of 'em. But, if I had someone shooting at me from 300 yards, I don't think that'd be the gun I'd rather be issued.

 

[ScratchnDent]

I don't have one, but a friend of mine does, and I must admit that I love shooting it!

 

[Maverick223]

I feel the same way about the M1 Carbine, and likewise about my M17. Those two more than any of the others just feel right to me.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Here in Ohio, if someone is shooting at you at 300 yards, you are not properly standing behind a 1) tree, 2) hill, or 3) a building. I have to really travel to find a 300 yard range to shoot on. Kind of makes the Carbine just a little more practical for self defense. But, as stated, defense is not the issue. I just HAVE to shoot the Carbine. It just makes me smile.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I have to agree with the OP - the M1 carbine just feels right!

 

[Hatterasguy]

I love the M1 carbine, they are light, super easy to shoot.

If your need to shoot something at 300 yards the carbine is the wrong rifle, get a Garand.

 

[mljdeckard]

I have found that the M-1 is a great option for people of all shapes and sizes.

 

[Ignition Override]

It is a really fun rifle and maybe can't be equaled in some situations, but the higher power (standard .303 battle rifle cartridge) and foreign looks, similar handiness of the Lee-Enfield #5 "Jungle Carbine" has a stronger appeal from my perspective.

These were built to be a front-line rifle so that British/Aussies could carry them easier, and take on the Japs in very nasty Burmese jungles, later in the '56 Malaysian conflict.

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

Does anyone else suffer from this apparent weakness, for the Carbine, or for any other gun?

I'm with you Sharps. After I got my first Uni, I don't think I put it down for more than 30 minutes that month. It went where I went. I definitely had the "kid with a new toy" syndrome.

I recently bought my first lever gun, a Winchester 94. It's been suffering a similar volume of handling

Thank God for snap caps, or I'd have shot the firing pin out the muzzle by now...

KR

 

[bigfatdave]

I recently got hooked by the M1 carbine, I walked into the CMP to check them out and couldn't walk out of there without one of my own.
I actually went ahead and ordered the 10/22 carbine stock and some tech-sites to build a LTR, I just put it together last night but it seems to handle and sight like the real thing.

The M1 carbine is now the standard I measure other rifles by, I may find something better in the future, but for now I'm hooked on short/light/handy rifles.