John W
I decided to shoot something different today
Monday, June 01, 2020, 16:40

I went to the local range and took out the old family M1 Carbine

My Dad's uncle served in the US Army and carried it after ww2. In fact he used it to shoot small roe deer on the runway of the airfield on base. The soldiers loved that since they had fresh meat for a meal after that. I bet you can't do that now.

Anyways. With all of this insanity going on I figured it might be a good idea to get some practice in.

I am kind of glad I did. I discovered some malfunctions. Mostly failure to feed. Out of fifty rounds I had five failures to feed.

I believe it is a combination of old springs and magazines.

I do have other guns to use but I kind of like the concept of the M1 Carbine. I did do some searching online and discovered that some companies make spring replacement kits.

So. The M1 will go back in storage for now and I'll use something else for a defensive rifle.