New carbine to me!

[Guy Fawkes]

My latest acquisition, an inland rack grade M-1 carbine from CMP south.

[brian]

looks like it's in a birch m2 stock.

[notenoughguns]

Nice , I'm jealous , congradulations

[Dan77]

Any chance you can get a measure on the barrel ? I have been thinking of ordering one of these. How long to get it, or did you take a trip there ?

[MarkV]

You can still get Rack grade Inlands from CMP through their mail order. I've seen some good ones in pictures on the CMP site. I think they're well worth the price.

Nice new "baby" you got there!

[Koli01]

Love to hear when someone gets a m1 carb or garand.
I think my Racker is mechanically just as good or better than my service. The stock is quite a bit more beat up though.

[MarkV]

I've been happy with all my CMP purchases - not all were "beauties" but they clened up nice and have been reliable shooters. I have worked on both the CMP Inland and CMP Rock-ola "mixmasters" trading parts when I can and buying when I can't to get them back close to factory configuration. It's been a fun way to learn about the carbine production.

Here's my CMP Inland:




Here's my CMP Rock-ola:



And this is one of all 3 of my carbines. Inland on top, National Postal Meter in the middle and Rock-ola on the bottom:

[Guy Fawkes]

The barrel is 18" long as taken from the manual. I was traveling to Anniston, AL and picked it up from CMP south. They had lost of rack grade inlands and a few rockola rack grade, but not much else.

If you go here: http://www.odcmp.com/ you can find out about ordering them. Relatively easy and they will deliver to your front door.

MarkV where did you acquire your magazine pouch from?

[MarkV]

My pouch came from one of the guys who has been selling them through the CMP forum - you can find the listed in the Trader's Bulletin Board.

Here's a link: http://www.odcmp.org/new_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34467

[Guy Fawkes]

MarkV, Thank you.