thoughts on a M1 carbine?

lonerezzie

lonerezzie

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So i have a chance of acquiring a 30 carbine. it's manufacturer is Universal out of Florida. Civilian rifle with wooden hand guard. The front of the stock where it meets the barrel has a machined ring that holds the stock and barrel together where i've only seen the metal band on i guess normal M1's. Can anyone give me a guesstimated price on this? thanks.
 
No first hand info, but type in Universal M1 carbine in your google search and you will find many links.

Regards,
hm
 
I know my great uncle carried one on his dozer in Korea I believe and he said it was a fun little gun. That is my knowledge on them.
 
I believe the new production M1s sell for around $800.

Some of the older ones are worth quite a bit, Rock Olla is about the rarest and most expensive I have been told.

This info is from what I remember of conversations with a friend that has several M1s and is always looking for more.


Steve
 
Originally Posted By: hm1996No first hand info, but type in Universal M1 carbine in your google search and you will find many links.

Regards,
hm

Perhaps I should clarify above statement. I have no first hand information on the Universal brand carbines. They are commercially manufactured, not original GI. As I understand it, some early commercial (not sure about Universal) were made using some GI parts and some newly manufactured parts, but none are to be confused with the original GI rifles. That is why I suggested doing a google search as you will find some evaluations of various makes there.

I was issued a carbine in the service and was never impressed with the accuracy (or power) of the weapon but they were fun to shoot and a lot easier to carry than the M1 Garand (but not nearly the rifle the Garand is).

Regards,
hm
 
I looked into it, but couldn't find a price on one, but saw on gunbroker's was selling universal m1's for $650. Anyways a guy from work wanted my old truck in the back yard and offered me the rifle for it, but when i decided to do it he backed out. Oh well.... i have shot a friends of mine and he could never get it to eat a full mag and would jam alot.
 
Bought one a while back (original GI). Paid about $600 for it, as I recall. Real fun to shoot. I load mine with 110 gr. HP and H110. Mine is accurate enough for Yotes and other stuff. You can buy commercial ammo from one of those Russian or Mexican companies for about $18 per 50 rounds if you don't reload. American companies want $40 or more for the same thing.
 
I owned & used one[Universal M-1 carbine] on coyotes quite afew yrs ago. At the time all I could find for mfg ammo. Was 110gr FMJ. Killed a handfull of coyotes & a few Red Fox with it.

Accuracy was not very good with the ammo I used/[2-3" @ 100yrds]open sights. Best I can recall. Forearm stock on my rifle was abit loose & woudn't snug down. So I used a shim.

Regardless, I made some lucky long distance shots with it anyway. 110gr FMJ Ammo was about worthless on the [coyotes]. Pretty much, just punched on through w/o alot of trauma in return. 110 FMJ did work well on the Reds, though. Bad thing about the FMJ ammo, was I got plenty of pass throughs = not good.

I bought my rifle at a gun show for atad over $200.00 at the time. I couldn't find any [military issue mags] only non-military civilian wannbes. Which were JUNK. Failure to feed/function was the norm.

If I DID own a M-1 carbine to use on the coyotes. I would want a military issue rifle. I would also opt to use hollow points.

BTW, a TRUE military issue M-1, are sometimes worth quite bit.
 
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Be glad your bud backed out.The Universals are not much-parts are not interchangeable with GI guns-if you want an M1 carbine,keep saving and get a better one.I traded into 3 universals and had trouble getting 300.00 each for them-as soon as the caller found out they were universals they would hang up--tells you something-jam-o-matics
 
new production ones are around 800 that would be auto ordinecs,etc... universals around way low in price,, i bought one about 2 years ago for 200bucks ,thats about the price now i belive is around 300 for them at gun shows here... the old usgi parts do not fit on them.. it takes parts made just for the universal............... all the ones ive had jamed with 30 round mags but the 15s worked fine .. accuracy i could keep my shots in about a 3inch group at 100yrds playing with it ..scoped the group was way smaller....
 
I have several of the GI versions, I wouldn't trade any of them. First time I shot one was as a 11B40 in Vietnam, an ARVN unit that was attached to us had them. I fell in love with them. Bought my first within a year of DEROS, and picked up the others as I found them.
 


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