hcock 45 with an anniversary for you
isn't this pretty yeah some people
wouldn't think so they think it's a
piece of junk but it is definitely not a
piece of junk is it it is a M1 carbine
standard products made a bunch of them
for World War II as did several
companies right about nine or 10
companies made 6 million of these things
and fairly quickly and this it had
interchangeable parts go to the Inland
M1 carbing video we did uh more recently
3 4 years ago maybe I'll link to it
how's that I'll help you out a little
bit in the description and maybe a pen
comment I go more into the history and
brought some books out and uh went uh
way deeper even than I normally do I
think on these sorts of things so I'll
link to that one but this is an
anniversary video this was my first real
M1 carbine that I bought uh in 97 which
makes it $25 years so I thought I'd bake
a
cake and we would celebrate 25 years of
owning and shooting this M1 carbine yeah
it's a long time to hang on to a firearm
you really in a great scheme of things
because we all are bad about trading
them off or getting tired of something
and you know that goes talk about even
have a video on that right but this one
uh I bought in lever Tennessee I was
living here of course and uh bought it
at specialty the arms especially the
Arms 2 I think it's always been named uh
John Arnold's gun shop down there used
to be back in the day man it was one of
the very few large gun shops around but
anyway I went there and that was hanging
on the wall I remember right where it
was hanging and uh looked at it and
walked out with it paid for it of course
but that was in 97 and uh so I was have
always been pleased to have a real M1
car beine whatever real means right uh
well opposed to a reproduction or that
sort of thing neuro um and this one by
the way as I talked about I think in a
video with this earlier video I may have
a link to that
too uh it has a uh I think a sagona
receiver has an Underwood Barrel has a
Winchester Wood stock okay and I'm not
sure about all the other specific Parts
but that was the story with these
Firearms I read and when I was actually
studying and research sech in for the
Inland video I read uh ran across I
guess in is it Canfield I read in his
book I ran across how uh think he stated
or somebody that
that the U
sagona uh receivers were very common in
the standard products firearm in fact I
think it gave a serial number of range I
think I talked about in that video and I
went to that and looked up and said yeah
this the way this one was shipped so the
fact that it has a sagol receiver
Underwood Barrel and and that in
Winchester wood it doesn't mean that
some guys were cleaning them years later
or it refurb and they just grabbed a
bunch of parts since they're
interchangeable and just said put them
mismatch you know that sort of thing
you'd get some of that and then people
restoring them maybe they break the
stock or they put a new Barrel rebarrel
it or whatever it might be so you end up
with different parts sometimes but uh
this is likely the way this fire was
shipped that's the thing uh cuz you know
everybody was making parts and that was
a cool thing about that rehash all that
but when they were geared up to make all
those in the early 40s like one company
that was making them was better at
making barrels and they'd get ahead on
barrels and so they'd send barrels over
to maybe standard products or to Inland
or or to uh you one of the other makers
and then vice versa so you have IBM and
whoever and so it's very interesting to
read about that can I shoot it okay all
right uh want to appre thank the people
that help us got a loaded mag it and uh
we will rack one of those in and fire it
help us out all right this is a cool old
fire I don't shoot it enough maybe I
shouldn't shoot it too much you know now
the uh the bayonet lug as I understand
those were put on after World War II
they brought them back to kind of refur
them if they needed and they they
installed those and uh and I I also have
my own installation a little extension
on that thing give me a little more
length did I put one in not yet all
right let's shap the gong celebrate 25
years let's knock the safety
off oh
yeah cool little 35 caliber bullet how
about a red 2 L or a red target over
there that's a pretty
hard got that one in the
middle how about that uh Circle down
there pretty nifty little gun how about
this pumpkin right here look at me in
the
face
boom see we we already did pumpkin
carving let's do it
again oh we had a malfunction can you
believe that let's rake it back try
let's get around in the
chamber we had another one you know and
that's uh what you run into these old
gun the old magazines more than anything
yep the old mags that was the weakest
link in these Firearms now with a modern
firearm that I was uh having around for
a defensive firearm that would really
bother me I'm going to put that one over
there anyway uh n it's a little annoying
when you get it with one but that's
okay it's done its duty if it wants to
malfunction
okay all right now we got another
pumpkin then you know what it just so
happens as we're filming this today is
Halloween it's October 31st all right I
don't know when you're seeing this you
you really wouldn't want me to know when
you're saying this would you that'd be
kind of creepy if I knew whenever you
were watching our videos what day it was
but anyway it is Halloween so don't we
do a scary pumpkin how about
uh about 2
L how about miss
one how about this target over here
since it's an
anniversary 25 years
yeah so romantic 25
years
pin how about a gone again no it was
done I knew I was about empty I was
empty not just about yeah it's so
romantic when you have a 25th
anniversary isn't
it oh that is a that is a cool looking
firearm I got to keep that magazine
separated but uh uh you know for the
most part as much as uh you read about
the magazines being a problem I I'll
usually have maybe one here and there I
have some issues with but most of them
work okay of course I don't shoot them
all the time or that often uh the the
larger capacity mags that I understand
can be worse than the others but but
that was one of the weak points someone
I think told me that or I read that you
really the mags were not designed to be
like longterm mags I think they throw
them away and get another one that's
kind of where they designed them um not
sure be nice if somebody made some
better mags though let's you know what
let's see how it shoots when it's in
full dress you know
to so we're
empty and the little carvings are so
neat the way they work that little
button hold it back I know I hate that
ugly thing but I need it all M's are
small they really have a short length of
pull so we know we're empty the bolts
back let's put this banded on here oops
and do a little deer hunting if we
wanted to right you could do anything
with
this all right she's clicked on pretty
cool says 1943 on the barrel it's
Underwood okay I guess we ought to put
some ammo in it we going to shoot it
that one's not full I don't think all
right see I'm just all giddy cuz it's an
anniversary don't I don't know what I'm
doing don't know what I'm doing do I
ever know what I'm
doing
okay now we're ready you can take this
into the deer Woods you got your field
dressing Implement right there on it
pretty cool huh now let's pop that uh
round good little shooters
yeah what's that bowling pin doing look
at me in the face right here and that
one and that
one oh that two and this 2 L click ran
out maybe he deserves to live or maybe
he doesn't maybe he
doesn't all right we got
him we were empty that's why I charged
that's that was a reason for the bayonet
charge right so we got some juice there
but oh look it was getting hot it was
steaming a little bit so we warmed up
the bayonet or maybe that was the barrel
juice got on the barrel uh so I should
be uh whipped huh mistreating this fine
old uh military
firearm oh yeah I should have been
stabbing the pumpkin not that two L but
I couldn't resist resist you know when
you run out of ammo got to do what you
got to do I bet I have something I could
yeah yeah wipe that baby down so these
these things are neat and uh you know
piece of History many of you watching
this can appreciate the history for
certain uh and there really is nothing
ugly about it uh even though the stock
is beat up really beat up uh you don't
look at it that way now if it was a
brand new SEO hunting rifle you bought
they go hunting yeah it be a different
story
right but one of these uh that
essentially just adds to the the
Mystique of it and the the I the
attraction to some extent it was
actually
used you know this this thing didn't sit
in a warehouse at least that stock
didn't right and then when they they I
think it was postwar War II is when you
end up with the bandet lugs I forget now
what I know about them but I believe it
was after 4 to and then also the the new
rear sight which was kind of a refer and
Improvement just like the uh OD 3 A3 or
whatever Springfield where you got the
sight move back here you can really get
a better sight like an AR you know you
got peep site ghost ring sight always
helps you and uh so this one actually is
a better shooter than my enland in a way
you got the sights and then of course
you got the all important banet log cuz
you never know when you're going to need
that when you run out of ammo and
there's a 2 L left but but uh but this
this one I guess uh wins the
competition uh between the it and the
Inland I have in terms of uh
just I don't know use you know wow look
at that thing really really cool I'll
shot it one more timer so I just I just
wanted to bring you out while I was
celebrating and uh you know some of you
get mad if I don't bring you out when
we're doing this kind of thing if it's
just
John and and uh and I celebrating a 25
year anniversary on a firearm you know
it's just not quite the same we'd rather
have I'm going to
try now these are soft point and it's a
what 25 Ram whatever sometimes these
especially will cause problems but we'll
try it anyway like I say this is not my
go-to defensive firearm so I won't lose
any sleepover if we have malfunctions
but uh still a little annoying isn't it
all right you know what I'm going to
mess up Mr pumpkin
face
[Music]
yeah I me a turkey a good turkey hunting
firearm for
sure nice how about the burn
barrel I don't know how many rounds I
have left but I'm going to shoot him
there you go no celebration is complete
without ample lid being slung at the
gong right yeah and see the banet
doesn't really seem to affect accuracy
either so that's something you want to
keep in mind if you uh plan to buy one
of these uh you know do some deer
hunting I mean you can fire it you can
uh have the banet right there and ready
it's just just pretty cool so again
Underwood Barrel Winchester stock and uh
sagona receiver but a standard products
uh firearm and that's that's just the
story on these things that's the story
that's the way they were they were they
were made you know they shared pieces
and put them together and uh and um you
know it's just an incredible effort that
uh it's it's a really good reading
really is uh if you're into firearms and
Military Firearms you probably already
know know a lot about it maybe more than
I do but uh it's it's worthy of some of
your attention if you find that kind of
thing interesting so anyway uh but I'm
I'm just glad to still be around and for
it to still be around and for both of us
to be around together 25 years later
pretty cool huh glad you came out to
help me Celebrate life is
good oh yeah that's better this is a
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