Favorite M1 Carbine Maker

[Scanker19]

And why?

[Scanker19]

For me its Standard Products. Something about a company with no business making guns, that did and did it well.

I feel like "oh winchester you massed produced a rifle?" WOW!!!!! (sarcasm)

[rondog]

I have an IBM, an Inland and an aftermarket whose name escapes me (cerebral flatulence), but I voted for Rock-Ola. A juke box company making rifles for the war effort? How cool is that?

[brokenscout]

Because thats the only one I have:) It has a Rockola stock though

[Robb]

I have two Inlands, but if I could have had an IBM and a Rock-Ola, well, that would just be too cool. The thought of a typewriter and jukebox company stepping up to help in the war effort by making what turned out to be a front line rifle is pretty damn neat. Talk about companies with no business making guns! My GM's are nice too, got them from the CMP because the price was right for Inlands and I felt I needed to act quick and that's just the way it worked out. I have one in the correct serial number range that would make a great M1A1, but no way can I afford the real stock. Maybe some day.

R

[Daniel_187]

Winchester, Because am pretty sure thats what my Grandpa Had in WWII. Unforuturely he died before I was old enough to talk to him about the war. So most stories come from my Uncle

[ray1970]

Inland.... what can I say? I'm a Chevy guy I guess.
[Driver]

[Scanker19]

I must Beg for your forgiveness I forgot Quality Hardware.

My penitence is 50 lashing, self inflicted.

whack!......owwwwwwww!!!!
1
whack!.......owwwwwwyeeeyyyyaaa!!!!
2.....

[Scanker19]

I love the thought of the Rock-ola too but i'm too poor for that to be my favorite.

I have a Standard Products, Rock-ola, and IBM.

I also have a Underwood, but its an Number 5 and i can't figure out where the Mag goes.[Tooth]

[Scanker19]

Because thats the only one I have:) It has a Rockola stock though

I love yours.

Who Wants to buy some Inert AT-4s so i can buy Ian's from him????

[zteknik]

i gotta say national postal meter
gives new meaning to going postal![Tooth]
although my favorite one i have is an inland paratrooper model[Coffee]
the dern case and stock are worth more than the gun itself!!

[w748]

Rocky ; it's the only one I have now.

[rondog]

C'mon guys, time for some shameless, gratuitous carbine porn! Bring 'em on.....

1943 IBM, typical mixmaster. Refinished with Fairtrimmers Military oX.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/rinselman/guns/my%20M1%20carbines/DSCN3346.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/rinselman/guns/my%20M1%20carbines/DSCN2848.jpg

[Scanker19]

Ron I'm in love. I'll fire up my camera tomarrow.

[Irving]

Ron I'm in love. I'll fire up my camera tomarrow.

Is it a pull start or a crank start?

[Scanker19]

I have to get the flash powder just right. Last time I had no eye brows for a month.[Flower]

I have a newer one where the pictures come out and you wave them.

[GhostRider]

The National Postal Meter, cause thats the one that I have, pics after I get finished restoring it. The guy that had it before me decided to rasp the stock down at the grip to make it look more like a sporting stock. [Bang][Rant1][Bang] I am down to just the stock and when I find the one I want, it will be completely restored back to NPM, other than that just a few of the extras that went with it. The rifle fires fantastically, I have never had a problem, the guy before me had a problem with ejectors breaking. I suspect he had something misaligned or extremely dirty. It was in bad shape when I got it. The wife has her sights on it, she thinks that it is hers now. Fat chance on that, they are great little guns.

[Scanker19]

I hear they don't like steel ammo and that will usually break and extractor.

[rondog]

Ron I'm in love. I'll fire up my camera tomarrow.

One o' them old kerosene Kodaks? Or propane? Had a propane TV set once.....[Tooth]

[zteknik]

I hear they don't like steel ammo and that will usually break and extractor.
ive shot wolf steel case through one of my inlands and except for jamming once in awhile it did ok
could be just fouling from the ruski ammo

[Scanker19]

Top to bottom:

IBM
Winchester Garand wearing a uncut Onieda LTD bayonet
Standard Products (my favorite)
Springfield Garand Wearing a cut Wilde Tool bayonet
Rockola with bayo

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy123/jordanls19/DSC01536.jpg

[zteknik]

Top to bottom:

IBM
Winchester Garand wearing a uncut Onieda LTD bayonet
Standard Products (my favorite)
Springfield Garand Wearing a cut Wilde Tool bayonet
Rockola with bayo

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy123/jordanls19/DSC01536.jpg
im jelous!!
nice bunch!![Beer]

[zteknik]

now i dont know if its just me
but i have my stock pouch on upsidedown
a bunch of ww2 vets i talked to said that was the way they carried them
this way when there in the prone they dont have to make a bigger sillouete of themselves while reaching for another mag
and i also seen old war photos like that as well