Talking with a friend recently, and had a chance to talk guns a bit. He was asking me what I knew about a "30 Mark 2 Carbine" he has.
I asked if he meant an M2 Carbine.
That's what it says on the receiver, anyways. I read it there.
He took it in trade a few years back, and went through the process of registering it. It has a custom stock on it, sporter style, with decent wood, a cheek piece, and sporter style butt plate, has been reblued (shiny), and is missing the selector mechanics off the trigger assy. It still has the military sights, AFAICT.
So what we were looking at was a M2 carbine that had, at some time past, been sporterized, restocked, and refinished. Apparently a relic from a point in time when they were not as tightarsed about it, as things became, or at least by someone that definately was not. The workmanship looks pretty decent.
Like I said in the title. A bit of a wolf in sheeps clothes. Well, a bit of a pup, anyways.
Not sure how best to proceed. The CFC guy that dealt with the registration application apparently tried to verify whether it was an M2 over the phone, but the selector switch was not present, which threw the guy for a loop (the CFC guy)and cannot be fitted, with the stock as is (not that that matters in the end of the story...). They won't issue him a reg cert, as it is an M2. Rock/Hard place. He's been in limbo with the CFC for the past 3 years on it.
I did not have more than a passing knowledge of what the parts required were, to differentiate between the M1/M2, but recognized the M2 Trip Lever, and that there were a bunch of parts missing from the trigger group. I was able to strip the action from the stock (the stock is sort of like the military one), but was not familiar enough with the M1/M2 to tell exactly what was missing.
Worst case scenario, what's a stripped M2 receiver/barrel/parts collection worth? All together? It would have to go to a 12.3/12.2, correct? Or is it just delaying the inevitable smelter or dewat visit, trying to get this thing transferred to a qualified license holder?
Wish I'd had a camera with me.
Cheers
Trev
I asked if he meant an M2 Carbine.
That's what it says on the receiver, anyways. I read it there.
He took it in trade a few years back, and went through the process of registering it. It has a custom stock on it, sporter style, with decent wood, a cheek piece, and sporter style butt plate, has been reblued (shiny), and is missing the selector mechanics off the trigger assy. It still has the military sights, AFAICT.
So what we were looking at was a M2 carbine that had, at some time past, been sporterized, restocked, and refinished. Apparently a relic from a point in time when they were not as tightarsed about it, as things became, or at least by someone that definately was not. The workmanship looks pretty decent.
Like I said in the title. A bit of a wolf in sheeps clothes. Well, a bit of a pup, anyways.
Not sure how best to proceed. The CFC guy that dealt with the registration application apparently tried to verify whether it was an M2 over the phone, but the selector switch was not present, which threw the guy for a loop (the CFC guy)and cannot be fitted, with the stock as is (not that that matters in the end of the story...). They won't issue him a reg cert, as it is an M2. Rock/Hard place. He's been in limbo with the CFC for the past 3 years on it.
I did not have more than a passing knowledge of what the parts required were, to differentiate between the M1/M2, but recognized the M2 Trip Lever, and that there were a bunch of parts missing from the trigger group. I was able to strip the action from the stock (the stock is sort of like the military one), but was not familiar enough with the M1/M2 to tell exactly what was missing.
Worst case scenario, what's a stripped M2 receiver/barrel/parts collection worth? All together? It would have to go to a 12.3/12.2, correct? Or is it just delaying the inevitable smelter or dewat visit, trying to get this thing transferred to a qualified license holder?
Wish I'd had a camera with me.
Cheers
Trev
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