Someone needs to buy my other knife!

[Fletcher Knives]

I found a guy who will sell me his M1 carbine for $300!!! Somebody buy that knife!

 

[_Westy_]

Dang that is dirt cheap for an M1 Carbine...crazy cheap.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

Dang that is dirt cheap for an M1 Carbine...crazy cheap.

I know right! That's why I'm wanting someone to hurry up and buy the knife. That's a crazy ass deal on the carbine and I don't want it to slip away! Andy always teases me that he has one and I don't cause he knows how much I want one.

 

[Fiddleback]

I found a guy who will sell me his M1 carbine for $300!!! Somebody buy that knife!

I dropped that knife today and broke the tip off...

 

[chainring]

Well, redo it and double the price for the collaboration piece!

So.....who's selling an M1 for $300?

 

[Fletcher Knives]

I dropped that knife today and broke the tip off...

SWEET! Than means it's sold! Email inbound with my paypal address.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

Well, redo it and double the price for the collaboration piece!

So.....who's selling an M1 for $300?

NOBODY! I mean ...uh... He wants to remain anonymous. I put a couple Beckers up for sale in the exchange too so hopefully someone will buy those too. I love them, but I never use 'em. Everytime I open the drawer, they look at me with that neglected look. They might as well turn into M1 carbine money too.

 

[_Westy_]

I've got an m1 for sale but it's not $300...hehe.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

Man, talk about heartbreak. I went and checked out my buddy's M1. I asked him a bunch of times over the phone if it was one of the various USGI's/compatables and he said it was. Normally this guy knows his firearms. I showed up and it was a dirtbag later model Universal. I said, "dude, is this the same rifle you told me about? This is a grub brag1 Universal piece of crap. It's not even the early model that takes USGI parts." He said, "how can you tell?" I just looked at him for a sec and said, "are you serious? Look who you're asking." Then I explained to him everything that sucked about that gun from the cracking slides to the crap trigger group. He's a good friend so I gave him a real good rash of shit. If it was just some dude, I would have been quiet and respectful while handing it back to him, but this is supposed to be one of my gun buddies. I don't think he's ever going to live this one down. UNFORTUNATELY, that means I'm still not a M1 carbine owner. DAMNIT! Oh well. At least I'm not broke now. This was God telling me that I didn't need to spend that money right now. Sarah and I are going to the Ren Fest Sunday, so now I still have plenty of money for beer and steak on a stake.

1: Grub bag (compound word / adjective)- Southern term for anything undesireable. Usually used to describe people of low position or standing or later model Universal M1 carbines.

 

[Fiddleback]

Well, an M1 is a man's tool anyway. You'd probably shoot your eye out.

 

[Kismet]

Dylside? A friend who is currently in the throes of collecting Milsurp stuff...(note: do NOT get a C&R license)...brought an M1 carbine up. Neat little gun...but...not big enough to be a versatile deer gun (up here, anyway) and it makes you shoot like you've just bought a brick of .22s...but with waaaay more expensive ammo. So basically, you've got an expensive way to punch holes in paper.

Really like the rifle, but it was made to be a big pistol, and all the arguments notwithstanding, it serves that purpose best.

And, if I read your post correctly, you think God wants you to spend the money on steak and beer.

Don't mess with God's will, man.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

Well, an M1 is a man's tool anyway. You'd probably shoot your eye out.

You're a man-tool.

Dylside? A friend who is currently in the throes of collecting Milsurp stuff...(note: do NOT get a C&R license)...brought an M1 carbine up. Neat little gun...but...not big enough to be a versatile deer gun (up here, anyway) and it makes you shoot like you've just bought a brick of .22s...but with waaaay more expensive ammo. So basically, you've got an expensive way to punch holes in paper.

Really like the rifle, but it was made to be a big pistol, and all the arguments notwithstanding, it serves that purpose best.

And, if I read your post correctly, you think God wants you to spend the money on steak and beer.

Don't mess with God's will, man.

What made it so appealing to me was more my fond memories of the one I had when I was younger and the ammo. Ammo you have to buy is too expensive for a lot of plinking, true, BUT a good friend of mine has a couple of M1C's and has all his reloading equipment setup for those rounds. I can get bricks of rounds from him for helping him with his hunting camp or just low low prices. I agree, they aren't a hunting rifle. I just wanted it to blast off reloads around camp.

About that C&R license. I've had one for about 8 years now. DO NOT get one unless you want the constant temptation to buy surplus weapons and have them shipped directly to your house all the time. That license was probably responsible for half of my money disappearing between 2003 and 2005. I went on a seriously spree. I'm a surplus and battle rifle FREAK so that C&R license was like a half-price crack dealer for me. lol

Yep, this weekend, God says beer and steak are the way to go. ...and I'm a spiritual man.

 

[hollowdweller]

I have an M1 and also a Ruger Blackhawk in .30M1.

If you can catch the Wolfe Ammo on sale it's not too bad.

I also have thousands of rounds of brass and dies but I need to set my reloading table up again.

I've had the carbine since I was 13(I'm 50 now) and I got the table and reloading outfit from my grandads house when he died. I used to use it all the time when I was a kid to keep my carbine in ammo.

My childhood dentist who was a milsurp fanatic knew I loved old milsurp stuff and every time I'd go and get my teeth cleaned he'd give me 500 lead cast bullets, or a few hundred rounds of cleaned brass instead of a sucker:thumbup: He kept me in .45 and M1 brass and bullets.

Dr Preston. He died on a fishing trip on the Great Lakes when a storm came up unexpectedly but the memory of his kindness to me as a kid (and others) will live on!

 

[Fletcher Knives]

I have an M1 and also a Ruger Blackhawk in .30M1.

If you can catch the Wolfe Ammo on sale it's not too bad.

I also have thousands of rounds of brass and dies but I need to set my reloading table up again.

I've had the carbine since I was 13(I'm 50 now) and I got the table and reloading outfit from my grandads house when he died. I used to use it all the time when I was a kid to keep my carbine in ammo.

My childhood dentist who was a milsurp fanatic knew I loved old milsurp stuff and every time I'd go and get my teeth cleaned he'd give me 500 lead cast bullets, or a few hundred rounds of cleaned brass instead of a sucker:thumbup: He kept me in .45 and M1 brass and bullets.

Dr Preston. He died on a fishing trip on the Great Lakes when a storm came up unexpectedly but the memory of his kindness to me as a kid (and others) will live on!

That is pretty awesome. I'll take a bunch of brass and bullets over a safety sucker any day!

 

[gundude73]

30 carbine is a great caliber, and dont crap all over the universal's they are okay. nothing compared to the WWII era guns, but they are still good shooters.

i would buy your peoples knife, but alas college is a money vacuum

 

[_Westy_]

Mines from 1943...

 

[Fiddleback]

Its my favorite rifle by a mile. I got mine last Labor Day, and it was immediately #1.

 

[Fiddleback]

And, if I read your post correctly, you think God wants you to spend the money on steak and beer.

Don't mess with God's will, man.

Wait. God doesn't want us to have beer and steak tonight? I thought he loved me.

You're a man-tool.

I know. Sorry...

Yep, this weekend, God says beer and steak are the way to go. ...and I'm a spiritual man.

Glad I'm not the only steak beer God dude in the world...

I have an M1 and also a Ruger Blackhawk in .30M1.

If you can catch the Wolfe Ammo on sale it's not too bad.

I also have thousands of rounds of brass and dies but I need to set my reloading table up again.

I've had the carbine since I was 13(I'm 50 now) and I got the table and reloading outfit from my grandads house when he died. I used to use it all the time when I was a kid to keep my carbine in ammo.

My childhood dentist who was a milsurp fanatic knew I loved old milsurp stuff and every time I'd go and get my teeth cleaned he'd give me 500 lead cast bullets, or a few hundred rounds of cleaned brass instead of a sucker:thumbup: He kept me in .45 and M1 brass and bullets.

Dr Preston. He died on a fishing trip on the Great Lakes when a storm came up unexpectedly but the memory of his kindness to me as a kid (and others) will live on!

Thats a cool post Jim. Thanks.