What About the M1 Carbine ?

Sorry, Greenjacket, I nearly missed your post from 27/6.

You're dead right. I have a deact '44-dated M1 Carbine in my collection and for pure 'feel' it's the nicest WWII smallarm I've ever held. Almost like a sporting air-rifle !
And it was this fabulous 'handiness', together with low recoil from the weedy cartridge, which reportedly made it such an accurate close-in weapon - in the right hands.

 

OK, gentlemen, my mistake.

I was very curious about this topic, so this weekend I asked my grandfather if he would let me fire his M1s, the Carabine and the rifle. He gladly accepted and he, my best friend and I shot the weapons.

I must take all my points where I say the Garand is unacurate back, because it is not. It stills being heavy and I do not like it too much. But it is a nice weapon. And I loved the 8 shots so quickly! I fired them all in 6 seconds! He he! But yeah... I think the carabine's bullets are too weak and low caliber...

What a nice weekend!

 

Friedrich, I weep with envy . . .