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BEAR
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Posted: 19 May 2020 at 15:06 |
been playing with my M1 Carbine. Bought it in 1963, DCM, $17.
I use to shoot it a lot; but know auto hunting allowed here, so it has been somewhat stagnet. Just was my SHTF gun with 400 rounds of ammo and 9 15 shot clips, loaded and sealed with GI clip seals. I see some are selling for $1400 and up. WOW. Really a very nice made rifle; could be the best Battle rifle ever made, M1 M2. looking thru my 1500 rounds of brass, found some 1945 french made ammo, corrisive and berdan primed. s I pulled some of the GI seals off and found another 35 rounds. But some cosmoline had also been on the seaals and had turned to glue/crud/wax. tried copper wool, it helped. now soaking the 3 woese in 50-50 oil-gas. my project for tomorrow. anything disolve old cosmoline????
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bear. said..."Really a very nice made rifle; could be the best Battle rifle ever made, M1 M2."
M1 is a 30-06 Garand.... M2 carbine????? that's FULL AUTO.
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Hence the reason you aren't allowed to hunt with them?
Steam removes cosmoline. WD-40 and kerosene soak sometimes works as well. |
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...oh yeah! thats gonna hurt!
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The M1 carbine shoots 30 cal M1 carbine ammo same as M2 carbine. The M1 Garand shoots 30-06. M14 shoots 308.
The crap was set, couldn't get it off with chore girl, copper. After 36 sitting in 50/50 mix it softened and the Choregirl worked with some effort. The scrubbibg actually took some oxide of and I now have 4 clips that look like new, and the internals are lightly oiled. Off to camp for a few days, so will not be able to check the feed function till tuesday. But cycling them by hand, they are smooth. Always tough to load for auto-loading rifles; got to get just the right pressure and not to much.
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