My Son Loves Me :)

[PUCKER]

That is awesome!!! You have a great son!

[The Annoyed Man]

Thanks G26ster for coming over today and teaching me so much about this carbine. I can't wait to get it to the range.

[G26ster]

Thanks G26ster for coming over today and teaching me so much about this carbine. I can't wait to get it to the range.

My pleasure. It's in great shape and a very, very nice carbine indeed. Also, great meeting the "Annoyed family and the Annoyed dog." I wish I'd spent more time looking at the canvas case though. There is a remote possibility it's an original. Quite rare these days. I'm also doing some more research on the stock, but you may want to post a question about it on the M1 Carbine Forum. let the "real" expert s chime in. Your son gave you a heck of a Christmas gift!

Now remember, mums the word on why the "so called" carbine expert could not get the operating slide back on, at first, because he failed to engage the bolt lug. That's what you get for not field stripping a carbine for 6 months or so. Memory fades

BTW, sent a PM on headspace details too.

[Texas10X]

Congratulations on your Christmas present (and really nice son!)!! Glad you got the gun you've wanted since you were a boy... it's great when a dream finally happens!

[karder]

That is a nifty present. Anyone who has even a passing interest in historical firearms knows that rifle's place in history. If your son is looking for a Godfather, I am available! Congrats and enjoy!

[The Annoyed Man]

I wish I'd spent more time looking at the canvas case though. There is a remote possibility it's an original. Quite rare these days.

Regarding the canvas case, I suspect that it was purchased at the same time as the sling, which you thought was probably not an original milspec part. There are a couple of black "leather" reinforcement gussets on the canvas case that appear to have required the the sacrifice of at least one nauga for its hyde. That would seem to make it very much post-war, although it may be an otherwise faithful reproduction.

[G26ster]

I wish I'd spent more time looking at the canvas case though. There is a remote possibility it's an original. Quite rare these days.

Regarding the canvas case, I suspect that it was purchased at the same time as the sling, which you thought was probably not an original milspec part. There are a couple of black "leather" reinforcement gussets on the canvas case that appear to have required the the sacrifice of at least one nauga for its hyde. That would seem to make it very much post-war, although it may be an otherwise faithful reproduction.

I would take a "real" expert in militaria, especially M1 carbines, to tell. However, the black hyde of the elusive Nauga is a dead give away. I just wished I checked it further, as I was just comparing it to the later knock offs so common these days. It didn't fit that bill, so I was curious. The same is true for the sling. As it is a "C" tip, and not a "D" tip it also might be original. Unlikely, but the same expert as stated above would need to tell you. As I told you the other day, the M1 Carbine market is so flooded with fake Chinese parts, darn near everything is suspect, but sometimes with slings, cases, and other small parts you get lucky. The main fake parts are slings, cases, flip sights, and early type I, IA, and II barrel bands. Reputable sellers will always identify them as a "reproduction." If you're positive you have Naugahyde, then the case is certainly a repro.

[74novaman]

Now we need pictures of the carbine with the 1911.

[jpfrog]

Now we need pictures of the carbine with the 1911.

+1 from me...I want to see that combo together!

[The Annoyed Man]

Now we need pictures of the carbine with the 1911.

+1 from me...I want to see that combo together!

Your wish is my command.....





Now, I really like this thing as it is.......but I kinda like these three accessories for it too:

1. From Fulton Armory, a handguard with a picatinny rail, $99.00

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  Here's what it looks like mounted on a carbine:
  

2. From Brownells, a Vortex Sparc Red Dot sight, $176.55

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3. Also from Fulton Armory, Stock, Folding, Choate, New, $109.95

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  Here's what it looks like mounted on a carbine:
  

Voila! Something small and light that folds up and conceals in a tennis racket case, in the back of my vehicle. Of course, if I buy all these accessories, I'll have to buy another carbine to add them to so that I can keep this one all original.

[74novaman]

Very cool!

[mojo84]

Nice M1. I had an IBM I sold back in the early 90's. Would love to have it back and have been kicking myself ever since.

[G26ster]

I have one of those rails on one of my Inland Carbines. At first I had a red dot scope, but now I have a Nikon Extended Eye Relief scope on it. I really like the setup for the range with the magnification. That said, I'm not any more accurate with it at 100 yds as I am with my other M1 carbines and their iron sights. Just a fun way to have a cool scout rifle. Just a note however: Regardless of what you mount to that rail, you will need a cheek rest if you desire to regain your spot weld while sighting, as the sight sits much higher than the iron sights. Not easy to find, but I found this one on eBay and it works well with both types of optics. Pic shows red dot (and light) mounted before switching to the Nikon optical scope. The light was when I thought I might use this for HD.

Oh, and yes, one M1 Carbine is NEVER enough!

[The Annoyed Man]

Just a note however: Regardless of what you mount to that rail, you will need a cheek rest if you desire to regain your spot weld while sighting, as the sight sits much higher than the iron sights.

If you notice in the picture of the Choate stock in my previous post, the comb of the buttstock is much higher than it it is on the original wooden stock. It's actually more "AR-like." I think that if that stock were used, you wouldn't have to use a raised cheek rest to raise your cheek weld. On my M1A, I had to put a Karsten's cheek rest on it because the buttstock angles downward a bit, just like it does on the M1 Carbine and it was difficult to get a good cheek weld and proper eye-to-scope alignment.