Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors O.T. heads up F.S. M1 carbine

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Selling a duplicate.
Inland, ~1944

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I have a photo somewhere of my mother and I when I was three years old posing with the big 4x4 blacktail buck she took with her Inland 30 M1 carbine. Her one and only buck.

Well wipe away those tears of nostalgia and jump on this baby! For Ma.

I had a bunch of them till the price hit the $100 range (many years ago) then I dumped most. I thought they had topped out...but they hadn't.

Fun to shoot, easy to reload for and like the 99 lots of variations to collect.

A good buddy had amassed around 150 of the the things back in the late 80's-early 90's, plus enough parts to put around 50 more together. One day he woke up and didn't feel like doing M1 Carbines anymore and sold everything. Between that and his impressive collection of Civil War artillery projectiles, he made enough to pay off the note on his house and with the leftover $ dove into the world of early American postage stamps.

He did keep the M2 Carbine though. Now there was a fu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-n gun to shoot!

I found reloading for a 30 carbine to be a pita. Although that was for one a them eargsplittenloudenboomer Ruger single action pistols. Because they headspace on the case mouth, if you trim your cartridges a tiny bit too short they misfire as the firing pin pushes the case forward in the chamber.

I thought to myself, self, how stupid a design is that? And unloaded that pig.

I handloaded a pretty fair amount of .30 Carbine ammo. It's been a rather long time ago now but I don't remember trimming brass. I do remember I used a 110 grain Lyman cast bullet and a stiff charge of H-110. I also remember having to get at the gas port and ream out the lead deposit buildup in it once.

Headspace on case mouth a bad idea? Not an issue with .45ACP, 9mm, and the like.

I have one Carbine left. A Nov 1944 model if I am not mis-remembering.

I don't think it's possible to lose money on anything serial numbered 1941-1945.

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Never was excited about them. Like the M16/AR15 if it's not powerful enough to stop a bear I ain't interested. However during the evacuation of Saigon one of the South Vietnamese airman deposited his pretty little blond stocked M2 on the flight deck. I was about to grab it when I got distracted. When I turned back it was gone. The tall skinny dufus supply officer had thrown it overboard. I had already developed a strong dislike for the prick and thought it would be nice to send him in after the M2. A lot of other good stuff went into the South China sea during that fiasco. And some things like the supply officer didn't go overboard and should have.

Well this one is NOT in the south china sea. It's in my North America United States Safe.
The M1 carbine like any other firearm has it's place in the spectrum of shooting, collecting, historic WWII memorabilia, etc.
Some say a 160 gr. broadhead/arrow can't kill a bear either. Tell that to 5 bears that I've harvested that way.
I just shoot paper with mine. Vary the range, shoot offhand is a lot of fun.

Always wanted a M1, I might pick one up someday. They are a neat piece of history.

Carbine or Garand (Springfield, H&R)? I have both available.
Everyone should own at least one "gun that won the war".

I have a H&R Garand. Almost snagged a reasonably cheap shooter carbine at Tulsa, glad I waited and got the 250-3000 RS tho.

Good point about the broadhead. I guess I'm a chicken, I like to have confidence in my firepower.
Garand is another subject. I have an unmolested Springfield with an 89,xxx serial number.

I have a Dutch Geweer Garand. It was a gift from a friend, so it will stay in the safe till after I'm gone.

I had three before our government they had to go, one was a Winchester that had wood a quality sporting rifle would look good in.

My Dad in New Guinea during the war a lowly lance corporal in the engineers, he worked closely with US troops in the same area and had a very good friendship with a captain from Ohio I think, strange for other ranks to cobber up with officers but they had similar interests and I guess at the time friendship was important.

Well this officer promised my father his m.2 and a stack of books on engineering, dad had to go out on a job and the US troops left during that time, the captain left a note that he left everything with the quarter master, i'm sure you can guess the rest.

I still have photos of dad and his US buddies and I treasure them

Johno

I used to shoot pistol silhouette targets with mine off hand. A clip full of 15 head shots no problem at 25 yards, similar to your target. I have pictures somewhere, to lazy to find them and figure out how to post them.

I have one Garand left as well. A minty unmolested 1944 Springfield. I used to shoot it some and it was a head shot rifle as well. Retired it from the range. It's just for looking at now. Somebody 50 or 100 years from now will thank me for that.

I don't think there was ever a better platform to shoot off hand from than the M1 Garand.

That gun with receiver sights can make any average shot with average eye sight a 200 yard sniper.

Sold. Heading to the South Pacific.
Wonder if it's been there before...?