M1 Carbine Buying Help

[lone-wolf]

There might be a m1 carbine for sale locally in a good price range for myself.
It could also be gone already
Plainfield made.

If the guy calls back and still has it, what should I be looking at when I go look at it before I make a decision to buy it.

 

[Light Infantry]

Plainfield ones are pretty decent commercial versions. Stay away from most of the Universal ones.

Here's a link:

http://www.m1carbinesinc.com/carbine_plainfield.html

 

[lone-wolf]

Very good site, thanks.

 

[Ryan j]

I betcha he'll take $200 for it ...

 

[lone-wolf]

I betcha he'll take $200 for it ...

I gave him what he wanted for it.
I'm happy, I get to poke around the milsurp forum now.

I also heard someone got a SKSD?? I'm going to have to buy the pei bst more often

 

[Ganderite]

I see it has a 30 rnd mag. the M1 mag latch has a weak spring. A M2 latch will hold a loaded 30 rnd mag.

 

[SoBored]

Congratz on a nice M1!

Don't shoot too close to your house or you're have to clean shell casings out of you gutters.

 

[lone-wolf]

I see it has a 30 rnd mag. the M1 mag latch has a weak spring. A M2 latch will hold a loaded 30 rnd mag.

I beleive it has that. I think. It has an M and a M which means it's the m2 latch?

 

[DocZoid]

Good find.. never thought to look there before.

 

[contact148]

IF the mag catch is an m2 version it will have a support part to hold the side catch of the 30/5 rnd mag

will work fine without it in semiauto fullauto rattles the magazine around which is why they added the extra support

 

[tiriaq]

Most Plainfields had a birch stock, perforated metal handguard, and no bayonet lug. Looks as if yours has been upgraded with GI parts.
Some Plainfields have quite a few M2 parts - slide, bolt, trigger, sear. Plainfield made both M1s and M2s, used common parts in both.

 

[lone-wolf]

Serial number is L###, seems pretty odd but I guess plainfield didn't care about serial numbers much.

I beleive it has that. I think. It has an M and a M which means it's the m2 latch?

oops I guess my mag catch has 2 Ms on it, one vertical, one horizontal. nothing underlined. I don't know what that means. But the 30rd magazine seems to function OK. Only can hold 5rds so there ain't much stress going on.