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I recentely picked up an M1 Carbine that appears to be completely original, retaining flip sights, high wood, the push button safety etc. Even the hammer is the original type 1. The stock has the "I" cut for the oiler and retains the crossed cannons. It is an Inland dated 10/42 with a low serial number 71***. The only thing that is really very unusual is that there is the Canadian Broad Arrow stamped beside the crossed cannons. I have done some research on this and have found very little. There was a brief mention of 100 Carbines sent to Canada in 1942 in the book "Defending the Dominion - Canadian Military Rifles." Does any one have any information regarding this subject?

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Well, any carbine that came here didn't go through the U.S. arsenal rebuild after W.W. II. It's worth a ton of money, Stateside. Not that you could take it there to sell even if you wanted to.
Your's likely is one of that 100 your book mentions. Probably brought in for CF testing purposes.
 
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very nice find too bad its in canada its worth very little here as compared to us prices

a bit of warning

the very early m1 carbines broke bolts, the lug near the extracter snaps off

the type 1 hammer SUCKS and will fail to #### alot which means you need to remove the rifle from the action to reset it

IF yours has the removable slide spring houseing (not many made by inland)

DO NOT shoot it if it is those recievers cracked easily

Ive got an inland serial under 400 (389 if i remember correctly) it has the regular reciever so its unlikely yours has the type 1
 
see if you can find a complete trigger group as yous type 1 hammer will cause grief and why risk wrecking it?


also your trigger group retaining pin may be spring loaded thats a VERY early type dont lose/wreck it! very hard to find

also swap out the bolt

oh your gas plug will also be the early type which gives cycling troubles (short strokeing) thats normal you can swap it out for the updated version but you need the proper wrench


the rear sight is not adjustable so it will shoot left or right and you cant adjust it also dont flip that rear sight around too much or you will snap that spring steel (ask me how i know) took me a LONG time to find a replacement

send me a pm if your going to sell it!
 
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