Happy Bday Carbine

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doc540

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My 90 year old dad and former B-17 pilot finally gave me the 1944 M1 Carbine we bought through the NRA in 1963.

He'd forgotten that I mowed yards to raise the $25 it cost back then, and I wasn't about to remind him all these years.

As good of a Bday present as I've ever gotten!

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Happy Birthday and congratulations!

In many ways, I feel the M1 carbine is a 'perfect' rifle- easy, even fun to shoot, light, and powerful for its intended purpose, reliable and actually very accurate given it's limits. You have a good-looking example!

Looks like a 15 round USGI mag and type-1 barrel band, too!
 
And to think, when I read the title, I didn't click until I got bored, because I was scared it was going to be another M4gery post. :p

Nice carbine. :cool:

Happy B-day.

Jason
 
M1 carbine

The M1 carbine is an excellent personal defense weapon. While it was not intended to function as a battle rifle, it was still very popular with many front line troops in WWII. It was light and handled easily. In the Pacific, it was found that it would penetrate Japanese helmets and the occasionally used Japanese body armor, which the Thompson 45 would not. It was also accurate at much greater ranges than the Thompson. The cartridge of course did not have the power of the '06, but the stories of poor performance were for the most part hogwash and not borne out by actual combat statistics. American para's liked the carbine, and its utility is testified by the fact that it became, in and after WWII, a favorite arm of the French Foreign Legion and the SAS in Malaya. I have always found it curious that the scuttlebutt artists who criticized its low power never made the same allegations about the German MP40 ("Schmeisser") which fired a considerably less powerful round.
 
Doc540, yes indeed a fine B-day present.

Doc TH said
The M1 carbine is an excellent personal defense weapon. While it was not intended to function as a battle rifle, it was still very popular with many front line troops in WWII. It was light and handled easily. In the Pacific, it was found that it would penetrate Japanese helmets and the occasionally used Japanese body armor, which the Thompson 45 would not. It was also accurate at much greater ranges than the Thompson. The cartridge of course did not have the power of the '06, but the stories of poor performance were for the most part hogwash and not borne out by actual combat statistics. American para's liked the carbine, and its utility is testified by the fact that it became, in and after WWII, a favorite arm of the French Foreign Legion and the SAS in Malaya. I have always found it curious that the scuttlebutt artists who criticized its low power never made the same allegations about the German MP40 ("Schmeisser") which fired a considerably less powerful round.

Good write up.
 
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doc540 - remember to spend time with your Dad, he won't be around forever ... :)

Cool rifle. Let us know how it shoots :D
 
I loved shooting my brother's M-1 Carbine! As a teen, I remember a partridge taking off almost under my feet and it startled me, but I shot it out of the air only about 20 feet away and was pretty impressed by the power of the cartridge. There were only feathers and skin left, as I recall. Lucky shot!

The commercial ones I've seen are poor examples, though the Ruger Mini 14 comes closer than most, but in 5.56.
 
great looking carbine and wonderful present.
my inland carbine is my go to for home defense and has killed deer also.
it got a chance in the stand yesterday but the deer didn't give me a shot.
max shot out of that stand is 60 yds.
 
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