I've got two M-1 Carbines one is a retro-type Iver Johnson (made about 1979), however I replaced the hardwood stock with the original GI walnut and the heat shield, from Gun Parts as well as the bolt return spring, and added two cartridge pouches and installed one on the stock, a sling and an oiler, as well as a bayonet stud. Looks like the real thing, but it is very reliable using my reloads, no one at the ranges I've been to, know the difference haha. My other Carbine is a dog from every town, which I got for way under $450.00 I don't recall how much I paid for it, but it was only a couple of years ago. It was in a beat up after market stock, had a po-dunk rear sight, although the dove tail was still there, for the original I got from "Gun Parts", as well as the stock and heat shield (wood) from an original Remington from what I gathered, noted the barrel and the gas block to be "Rock Ola" as well as the slide, however the the frame was from a place I learned here, that was made for the Govt. from 1943-1944 out of Chicago toward the end of the war. BTW I also got the sling and oiler from "Gun Parts". Once I had it all re-assembled and took it out and shot it, noted it to be extremely accurate out to 100 yards with absolutely no misfeeds, or failures to fire etc. So I'll have the two of them until death do us part, and then they'll go to my heirs.
