m1

[ronboy]

Hi anyone bought a M1 staight pull carbine 30 calibre ? I am thinking of putting in for one, shot one full auto and semi in the states and fell in love immediately.

[PaulR]

I've got one Ronboy, bought it about 10 Years ago and love it. Great to shoot, quick to cycle and very accurate out to 300 yds but excels between 10 to 100 yds.

The round is fairly easy to reload and using between a quarter to a third the powder that a .303 or 30.06 would take, relatively cheap. Bonus is that it can be used a a Gallery Rifle and/or Service Rifle in many competitions.

Here it is:



Cheers

PaulR

[Blu]

PaulR, do you know in which US city your M1 was made? I ask out of interest because my Mother in Law as a young woman used to help build them during WWII when she worked at Saginaw Steering Gear which was a part of General Motors. The Saginaw made carbines have SG on the left side of the receiver and they are actually pretty rare these days.

Blu

[ronboy]

Hi Paulr, what a lovely gun, I am jealous. Cant wait to get one, is your one a straight pull ?

[PaulR]

PaulR, do you know in which US city your M1 was made? I ask out of interest because my Mother in Law as a young woman used to help build them during WWII when she worked at Saginaw Steering Gear which was a part of General Motors. The Saginaw made carbines have SG on the left side of the receiver and they are actually pretty rare these days.

Blu

Hi Blu and Ronboy,

As this M1 is in the UK (not to be confused with the M1 Motorway), the receiver, barrel and bolt were all new manufacture by a US based company called I.A.I. Everything else, trigger group and furniture etc are original. The copy is well made and original parts could replace those fitted to the rifle as it probably copied using CNC technology.

It is straight pull only with no gas bleed hole in the barrel and the tappet welded to the retaining collar inside the gas expansion chamber.

I’ve noticed that now the Authorities here have seen sense, certain parts from prohibited weapons can be recycled into the manufacture of legal Straight Pull versions. So whereas they had to manufacture my Carbine from scratch, there is a company here that is currently manufacturing Carbines using wartime Receivers and Bolts – Barrels still have to be new manufacture. I guess the Surrey based company is where you’re going to get yours from Ronboy?

However, I have a collection of pre-95 deactivated weapons that go with my WW2 Jeep and one of them is a very nice (well for a de-act anyway) Inland Manufacturing Carbine part of General Motors dated 9-44 but I guess they were a separate division to Saginaw. I do have a M1919A4 .30 cal made by Saginaw – could she have had a hand in that?

Cheers

Paul :cheers: :cheers:

[Blu]

PaulR

Inland Manufacturing Carbine part of General Motors dated 9-44 but I guess they were a separate division to Saginaw.

Yeah although they were still a part of GM they were made in Dayton Ohio. As for the M1919A4, well she never mentioned those to my knowledge, she only ever told me she used to be in on the M1 Carbine production at Saginaw Steering Gear.

However here's a link to a site that you may find interesting

http://www.bavarianm1carbines.com/manufacturers.html

Blu