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This is an off shoot of a thread started yesterday by Pianter 777's "Inland 5,093,600 NRA sale Late 1963"
NRA/DCM M1 Carbines
Back when NRA members could purchase an M1 carbine through the DCM during the 60’s were there any M1A1’s or were they all one piece stocks? I don’t recall seeing M1A1’s but I thought I would ask in hopes that someone would know for sure.
What was the time frame of that program and any idea as to how many M1 Carbines were sold during that program?
John
Only M1 carbines; no mag, no sling no oiler, nothing else. Absolutely no M1A1's.
Seems like they were offered for about a year. As was common at the time, they would have a cutoff but would continue shipping guns for months, even years, until they either ran out or filled the backlog of orders.
Don't recall hearing the quantity shipped. I had no access to a computer at the time.
Neal
It was not unusual to wait 6-8 months or to be denied if your papers were not in order. And $167 was a chunk of change in 1981 but you only got ONE, period. But the wait was worth it, you couldn't find a Garand with a Gieger counter in those days and when you did it was $500+. Some guys got National Match guns, brand new ones, I got a white sack SA rebuild. And some guys got clunkers that still had the wood scars from being thrown into the back of a jeep trailer when the NGs turned them in. Really luck of the draw. The carbines were shown as "unserviceable" wow! Sweet deal.
I got a DCM Garand in the early 90s. I waited forever, and when I got it, I had really, really bad luck. It looked horrible, beat up, pitted, and the barrel was totally shot out. At 25 yards the group was about the size of a paper plate! Even one of the DCM competition shooters on the department couldn't do better. I ended up selling it to a re-enactor who plugged the barrel with a permanent blank device. That is the reason I was so pleased with the beautiful CMP Inland Racker I got with a 1+ME. I figure it just karma evening out.
And then there were those lucky souls who wound up getting a NEW, in the box, 1911A1 from the DCM. Wish I'd had a clue about these great weapons back then. I was into women, beer, and hot cars. Fun, but generally not good investments!
Yeah, but those guys just got neat guns. We've got Great Memories!!! Right?