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Bought one for Dad, originally. When photobucket stops shietting the bed, I will post pics.

He had one in the tank with him, in theatre. original M2 with chopped stock.

I bought the closest I could come up with. He looked at me and said, no worries, I will take care of the rest. All I could do was smile.

I'm smiling too, nice gift. If he needs brass give me a holler.

you are talking about .30 M1 carbines?

That's a nice little collection Sam.

Nice story there Dirt.

So what bayonet did m-1s take. Was it the Garand models or their own version.

When I was in high school, my dad and I were deer hunting with Dad's friend and his son, my age. The kid was carrying an M1 carbine with a 16 shot mag. We were all together when we jumped a doe which I lung shot with a Win 32 Spec. Then the kid cut loose with his 30 cal. We counted the holes - he hit it with all 16 before she went down due to massive lung damage from my shot. Most of his hits were in the hind quarters but he didn't spare the shoulders. Dad elbowed me to be quiet and congratulated him on 'his' deer and made darn sure HIS tag went on it.

Do you recall if the deer had made any sounds in German? It kind of sounds like a case of misplaced retribution to me.

always wanted one a friend showed me his one day and kinda sparked looking for one.Long before we had a computer.About 6-7 months later in the local gun shop see a nice inland for 250 so i decided to buy it came with ammo and a bunch of mags.Showed it to my buddy it turned out it was his and thun shop owner solod to me for what he paid not making a dime.Kinda funny how somethings full circle

As a pilot in Vietnam, there was not a lot of room in the aircraft for an M-14 or M-16 - I 'discovered' the M2 carbine with a folding stock full auto selector - loved it and had a canvas case that held twelve 30-round mags. Obviously couldn't bring it back

not much more gets me riled than a Nazi deer

I had one as a teen, loved it and wish I still had her. I've looked around lately, prices are stupid expensive.

I have two of them. An Inland from the CMP and a Postal Meter. When I was a kid in the 1960's A lot of the WWII and Korea vets deer hunted with carbines and killed plenty of deer with them.

Handy little rifles.

the US .30 M1 Carbine takes the M4 model bayonet.

actually the earlier carbines did NOT take a bayonet, a knife similar to a trench knife was issued. The earlier front barrel bands had no provision to mount a bayonet. It was later they started retrofitting type four barrel bands, and then the m4bayonet. WWII ones were leather handled. Korean war and later plastic or different materials.
The knife issued at the beginning had a leather scabbard soon to be replaced with the fiberglass type due to rotting.
They are not cheap today if you find one with an original leather scabbard.
And a true folder, i.e. with the original folding stock were only made by inland and winchester. They are quite pricy.

the carbine is the only rifle that i am aware of that started life as a semiauto, and with the addition of the nine magic parts, became a select fire, the M2 version.

you often find M1 carbines with SOME of the magic parts. To have all of them is a major boo boo. The hump back sear is a m2part, but not uncommon to find in a m1, and also not illegal in and by itself.
you will often find them with the potbelly stocks, on the left side of the reciever area is a cutout in the stock for the go fast switch. Earlier stocks did not have that.

i have told this story before, a navy friend, now deceased, found one in a stream in vietnam, an m1, but in good working condition. Took it to an armorer, who converted it to a M2, and cut the stock to make a pistol out of it. Dave drilled a hole in the wood and tied a leather thong on it to carry around his neck. He called it his "whore house" gun. Very good in certain establishments.

My uncle figured out a way to bring his back from Korea. As I heard it, he stashed it in the smoke stack of the ship he came back on.........

there are a number of "bringbacks" floating around. I have one with the ship's name stenciled on the canvas sling. Another late 44 was brought back from germany

my late oldest brother had one that was the first rifle I hunted with in 1958. the first hunt he took me on, he shot a fork horn and unzipped him from stem to stern just as if he had used a knife to gut the thing.
it ran down the hill and lost most of its innards on the run. flopped down right behind the pick up and waited for us to get there then ran down a half mile into the bottom of the canyon.
after that my brother got a 308 straight pull.
I would trade half of my battery for that carbine today.

We had a full bird colonel that had one. He was the CO of the cargo chopper bunch. He still liked to fly. He shot a couple o folks through the front window as I recall.

Quite a guy. Came up with the idea of dropping 55 gallon barrels of napalm ignited by WP grenades on close covered areas.

They mixed it too thick the first time and we had to light it off with A-4's running snakeeyes and 'nape.

I have my uncles old M-1 DCM carbine I got when he passeed. Way more accurate than most I have used.