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pschuch
Recruit Joined: Sep 28 2020 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 6 |
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Posted: Sep 30 2020 at 2:57pm |
An old close friend gave me his Universal carbine more than 20 years ago so it has a lot of sentimental value to me and more now that he has passed away.
I have had the chance to fire it only a few times and have to learn more about it. I have learned much more about reading messages in this discussion group and in uscarbinecal.com. I have kept it clean and rust free and bought a new padded case for it. I'll go to the Maintenance discussion with some questions about the gas piston and lubrication. I am a retired EE and have been target shooting on and off since the early 60's. Although a Tin Can Sailor, my father became interested in target shooting in the early '50's when he moved into an area loaded with other WW2 vets, most of them Army. As a machinist he made his own rifle scope and a spotting scope. I think he obtained the optics from Edmund's Scientific. At least one of his rifles was obtained from the DCM. He became very involved with a junior rifle club located under the gym of an elementary school.....totally out of the question in today's climate. I don't think that I'll be able to add much knowledge to the discussions on M1 Carbines but I hope to learn much for myself.
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Smokpole
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Welcome!
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Mikey P
Recruit Joined: Oct 13 2020 Location: colchester ct. Status: Offline Points: 6 |
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Hello to all... I am new to all of this and would appreciate some advise on navigating. Just picked up my first carbine.. Thanks
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Mikey P.
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03manV
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Welcome Mikey, and pschurch.
Mikey, first advice- start your own thread, with a more specific question and tell us more about your carbine.
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rtexpress
Recruit Joined: Oct 14 2020 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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My name is John 68 years old I live in a small farming community in Nebraska. I have owned my M1 Carbine for about 30 years it is a Saginaw 3397XXX which dates to 5/43 and appears to have the original barrel but the rest is a mix of parts. Way back when I bought this rifle I gave the huge amount of $130.00. At the time the store had 6 of them knowing what I know now I wish I would have bought them all.
I also have 2 M1 Garands and a SA M1A really enjoy them. I purchased one of the M1 Garands (12/42) about the same time as the Carbine and gave $130 for that one also. Wish I could get out more and shoot them but am working on that! I have been doing research on the site for a period before joining and found it to be an excellent source of data! Looking forward to being part of this group and will post some pictures of the rifle shortly. |
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painter777
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Welcome to all.
There are no silly questions. And we love pictures ! Charlie-P777
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tenOCEE
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Welcome here, too.
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My sig: Seen an IP or S'G'? Add it to my registry. We'll check consecutives.
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killerv
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welcome
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Bigheavy31
On Point Joined: Aug 24 2020 Location: Asheville NC Status: Offline Points: 135 |
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Welcome as it sound like you are already well addicted!
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