M1 Carbine Non-Restricted Barrel Source?

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I tried the search, but can’t find anything recent.

Does anyone have any insight in where I could buy a few non-restricted M1 Carbine barrels?

Would like to convert a few of my carbines to NR.

Is there a tried and truer Canadian source?

Anything to watch out for?
 
Nick at Vulcan brings the barrels in pretty regularly, I don't know if sells them. He can also make one for you from a new old stock Springfield barrel. Doesn't hurt to ask, and he's a great guy.
 
Ideally I’d like to just buy a barrel that my trusted local smith could headspace and fit.

I see there’s a few options out the USA, but certainly not cheap especially if I wanted to convert 3 or 4 of then,
 
Steyr101 said:
Ideally I’d like to just buy a barrel that my trusted local smith could headspace and fit.

I see there’s a few options out the USA, but certainly not cheap especially if I wanted to convert 3 or 4 of then,
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Nothing with the M1 is cheap or easy to find anymore. I have been looking for an armorer kit for two years. The only ones I have found are overseas or extremely expensive.
 
Steyr101 said:
Starting to realize that… didn’t think I’d be spending $600+ per rifle to make it NR.

Dones’t seem so worth it anymore, as much as I’d like to turn these into bush guns.
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I did one a few years back, got the M1 for $300, but someone had made it NR by welding on an extension, then someone else re-registered it as restricted because the CFC changed their opinion.

I wanted to clean it up so I removed the welded on extension but the welds were horrible and the muzzle was buggered up so I found a gent who would do the work, cost $300 for a barrel installed (again a few years ago) and then proceeded to de-register it myself, which you could do at the time.

So all in $600 for a USGI spec M1 carbine with a NR barrel. But that was about what they were selling for back then....

Oh, I don't know where it is... sold it in a poker game on a boat and there was an accident, never got the name of the buyer......
 
if you check sarco in the US has some armourers kits at a decent price.i baught one a few years back.delivered to my door for around 225$
 
kward said:
if you check sarco in the US has some armourers kits at a decent price.i baught one a few years back.delivered to my door for around 225$
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You kind of illustrated my point. $225 for a piston wrench and a bolt jig is ridiculous. I found kits in France for about $100 but the user doesn't answer queries about shipping to Canada. The market has put that item at a price point I won't pay. Hopefully I never need them.
 
actually the kit came with an action wrench,barrell clamp,front and rear sight remover,front sight installer,bolt jig and piston nut wrench
 
First off, there isn't any need to purchase an expensive piston nut wrench for a one off job.

There are two options, easily available to anyone with a file or grinder or both.

Use a cast off socket, of appropriate size and make up a castle type tip to fit those of the piston nut.

Even a regular hand wrench can be ground to fit opposing sides and do the job well.

You can even use a very soft punch, along with a light hammer to coax the nut into position to accept the retaining pin.

This doesn't have to be complicated.

OP, PM me about an NR 30 M1 NR barrel. I have one on hand and I can't see me using it.

If you don't want to purchase mine, which won't be cheap, your existing barrel can be sleeved from the chamber to the length you desire.

I have one, that I sleeved with a Shilen take off match grade barrel, which is finished at 21 inches. It shoots well.

Sleeving M1 Carbine barrels is nothing new and if you looki it up on the internet, Universal actually did just that with surplus US barrels that had been cut off just in front of the piston/port.

The after market barrels need to be reamed for proper headspace and timed for top dead center, or they won't operate properly and bind.
 
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That's one of the tools you can still get new, no one seems to ship to Canada. I was interested in building them from the ground up at one point so that would have only been the start.
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if you have a mill and a welder you can make the wrench and barrel vice make sure they fit tight dont need to look pretty

you could do it with files and a drill in a pinch just take a bit of time
 
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