gsbuickman
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Disclaimer : This M1 has been Kitty Inspector Approved .....
Hiya Guy's ..
I know I told myself that I wouldn't buy any more rifles for a while after picking up that 6.5 Grendel recently, so I'm glad I didn't buy this little M1 carbine outright, it just followed me home, well, kinda anyway .. a couple months ago I posted a Fred to help identify 4 or 5 unidentified magazines that I found in a box of miscellaneous stuff that came with the reloading bench that I picked up. They were identified as M1 carbine magazines and someone suggested that I hang onto them and find an M1 that I could put them to good use in so I considered it and started looking around here locally to see what I could find. Unfortunately all of the M1's in my neck of the woods were anywhere from $850 - $1,000+, so I decided there's no way I'm spending that kind of $ on a carbine that to me feels like I'm shooting one of the trainers we had back in in Cub Scouts , so I said to heck with it and sold the magazines to somebody on one of my gun groups on MeWe .
Well, fast forward up to yesterday when a friend that I've done a lot of business with touched bases with me about a couple things when I inquired as to what he might have available on the trading table, which is probably why he touch bases with me in the first place & he informed me that he had a nice little M1 carbine that he was looking for $700 or trade on. Well, needless to say he knew what my answer was going to be the question is what he was going to talk me out of for it, ha . In the end we ended up working out a trade deal for my Taurus 1911 & 150 bucks and it followed me home ...
This is a nice clean Auto-Ordnance M1 Carbine & overall I'd say it's pretty nice even though it feels more to me like a little 22 or something that I would teach Cub Scouts how to shoot with in my big hands, but that's alright , I still like it and it'll go nicely with my MiniMini-14's and my Marlin 99 M1-carbine. There's no take up in the trigger at all and I'd say it breaks somewhere between 4.5 - 5 lbs , it has the adjustable peep sight with two different aperture sizes, even though the furniture has a medium Walnut stain on it and it's a tad bit darker than I prefer it still looks really good and the wood under it has both horizontal and vertical striping in it & the sling is just long enough to sling the rifle over one shoulder and brace while shooting. It would be nice if the sling was a tad bit longer for more adjustability but it's not a big deal and for a $700 trade deal with the going rate of surplus M1's in my neck of the woods I think I got a pretty good deal & it also came with 170 rounds of reloadable Factory PMC brass ammo. Now I just need dies and projectiles for them to try out on my new Lyman turrent press ...
Hiya Guy's ..
I know I told myself that I wouldn't buy any more rifles for a while after picking up that 6.5 Grendel recently, so I'm glad I didn't buy this little M1 carbine outright, it just followed me home, well, kinda anyway .. a couple months ago I posted a Fred to help identify 4 or 5 unidentified magazines that I found in a box of miscellaneous stuff that came with the reloading bench that I picked up. They were identified as M1 carbine magazines and someone suggested that I hang onto them and find an M1 that I could put them to good use in so I considered it and started looking around here locally to see what I could find. Unfortunately all of the M1's in my neck of the woods were anywhere from $850 - $1,000+, so I decided there's no way I'm spending that kind of $ on a carbine that to me feels like I'm shooting one of the trainers we had back in in Cub Scouts , so I said to heck with it and sold the magazines to somebody on one of my gun groups on MeWe .
Well, fast forward up to yesterday when a friend that I've done a lot of business with touched bases with me about a couple things when I inquired as to what he might have available on the trading table, which is probably why he touch bases with me in the first place & he informed me that he had a nice little M1 carbine that he was looking for $700 or trade on. Well, needless to say he knew what my answer was going to be the question is what he was going to talk me out of for it, ha . In the end we ended up working out a trade deal for my Taurus 1911 & 150 bucks and it followed me home ...
This is a nice clean Auto-Ordnance M1 Carbine & overall I'd say it's pretty nice even though it feels more to me like a little 22 or something that I would teach Cub Scouts how to shoot with in my big hands, but that's alright , I still like it and it'll go nicely with my MiniMini-14's and my Marlin 99 M1-carbine. There's no take up in the trigger at all and I'd say it breaks somewhere between 4.5 - 5 lbs , it has the adjustable peep sight with two different aperture sizes, even though the furniture has a medium Walnut stain on it and it's a tad bit darker than I prefer it still looks really good and the wood under it has both horizontal and vertical striping in it & the sling is just long enough to sling the rifle over one shoulder and brace while shooting. It would be nice if the sling was a tad bit longer for more adjustability but it's not a big deal and for a $700 trade deal with the going rate of surplus M1's in my neck of the woods I think I got a pretty good deal & it also came with 170 rounds of reloadable Factory PMC brass ammo. Now I just need dies and projectiles for them to try out on my new Lyman turrent press ...