Inland M1 1944 30 Carbine - 18" Barrel, 10 Rounds, Wood, Walnut Stock

So after 3 rounds of highly accurate fire would not feed & lock into chamber.Diagnosis : rampway up from mag needs smoothing,polished. Extractor "biting" rim of Aguila FMJ & not chambering cartridge,chamber & entry rim sharp,not polished at all. So all of this needs a smoothy touch-up from good gunsmith. Front top wood piece does not align & reveal front site blade properly & must be corrected.Action inoperable as is. Because I have an excellent local gunsmith I am confident that the fail to feed & lockup to fire will be corrected as well as rear to front site view thru wood channel. I believe the very good bore will deliver a really great shooting light rifle suitable to my needs & a real favorite after the kinks of hurried production are worked out shortly. Altogether I am optimistic that I'll end up with the rifle we all want ! (after correcto fixes) And it is entirely probable that after some thorough test drives I'll buy another one just like this one ! I would gladly pay more for this rifle really,really tested,examined,tuned up to a high critical standard before bought by me. Quality,workmanship,talent,time,patience, & money all come together. Although not historically accurate I would like the factory option of an open rear site as well as the add on option of a longer trigger pull. A lot of us guys are now larger than the WWII average by a lot. Oh well Inland, THANKS for what should turn out to be a great multi-use weapon,light, high capacity,powerful enough, & FUN !

Purchased this item recently, and have mixed feelings about it. Start with the stock; the stock is a satin finish, and flawless, dark and somewhat lacking in visible grain. The parkerizing was sketchy, I probably will eventually have it redone. The Type 2 barrel band seemed cheaply made, and poorly fitted; I wound up using the barrel band off a Plainfield Machine model, which fit. After cleaning the firearm, which I always do with a new gun before shooting it, I took it to the range to test out. Using the ten round magazine supplied with the gun, the first four attempts to feed were total failures, the rounds jamming halfway out of the magazine. Didn't matter if the magazine held 10, 6, or 3 rounds, it consistently jammed. I had some 15 round magazines purchased from Keep Shooting, and when I used 3 of these, I had no further problems, going through 50 rounds without a hitch. I didn't see the point in using up another box of bullets, as long as I didn't use the Inland magazine, the gun functioned perfectly. I don't regret buying it. Other than the subpar parkerizing, the problems with the barrel band and magazine were minor.

This is not a "reproduction," nor "clone" of the original Mil-spec M1 Carbine. Inland manufactured the bulk of Carbines made during WWII, and was still operating as a subsidiary of GM until 1999. Now, reconstituted and reborn, Inland has continued production of the original line, albeit starting with a much higher serial number to help combat fraud, as well as unique markings below the wood to help collectors tell the difference! Those of us who grew up 50 years ago can remember the days of inexpensive M1 Carbines as well as tolerably decent M1 commercial copies that usually worked well, and could be massaged to work very well. Well, for now, with untold numbers of M1 Carbines locked overseas and probably never to be allowed import to their home of origin, the M1 Carbine has been on the road to increasing scarcity, with commensurate high prices. Current "copies" are all about cost-cutting and "kind of like" with .22LR and 9mm versions that share little more than the visual contour of an original. Inland is giving shooters a chance to snag a brand new, original production pattern, Mil-spec M1 Carbine for a very reasonable price when one considers what every other genuine "wood and steel" original gun costs. Clapped out originals are already overpriced and questionable to shoot, if not for safety, for fear of something happening to damage collector value. Anyway, upon unpacking the box, I pulled out what is for all intents an purposes a brand new military issue M1 Carbine, complete with original production oiler, and sling. As it happened I had an original M1 on hand to compare it too, and aside from the age marks of handling, dings, and knocks, metal wear points, etc., the two could have been twins separated at birth with one being kept in the wrapper, while the other went off to war. Actually, wood-to-metal fit on the new Inland was superior as the older gun had wood projecting above the tang at the rear of the receiver. The original also looked to have received something like a Tru-Oil stock treatment, but otherwise, physically identical. the stock is Walnut with a nice oil finish and matte appearance, mated to grey parkerized steel...no aluminum or polymers. Everything is period correct. The gun dry cycled cleanly, and manually locked back. The supplied 10 round CA legal mag lacks the ability to lock back the bolt as the original 30 round M2 mags did. The little rifle is just under 36" long with standard stock, which puts just a few inches longer than the average AR-15 Carbine with stock retracted, and easily 2-3 lb. lighter than the current iterations of beefy-barreled, billet receiver, railed rifles. First time out I took two boxes of Tulammo - $20/50 rd box to see how it would work. While many on YouTube proclaim Russian made, steel cased ammo is the worst thing since the fall of the Roman empire, my own experience with Russian ammo has been universally satisfactory. I've seen AR's that would cycle Winchester but refuse to digest Federal, yet they ran like a sewing machine when loaded up with "cheap Russian" ammo. This rifle is no different. Out of 100 rounds, the rifle fired all 100 without a hitch...with "boring regularity" one might say. Again, some will protest that until one has half-worn out the barrel by firing several thousand rounds rapid-fire, they can't proclaim a rifle "reliable" with a particular ammo. To that total BS I submit, if a gun fires the first 100 shots with 100% reliability, the "probability" of it firing the next 100, or even the next 1,000, is "100%." I certainly wouldn't volunteer to stand down range and taunt the shooter with only 100, 100% reliable shots though his rifle! I personally like steel cased ammo, and considering Russian weapons - firing steel cased ammo are KNOWN for reliability, I think it's a good choice. I have an AR-15 I built from scratch that chambers 5.45x39 and runs perfectly - 100% with former "communist" surplus steel cased ammo, as well as the newer stuff. So much for the life of THAT horse... For less than $1,000 one can own a brand new slice of history, but more, a seriously good home-defense/survival carbine. For all the tripe about an M1 Carbine round delivering almost 1,000 lb-ft of energy not being a "good stopper" in FMJ configuration (yet somehow the vaunted .45 ACP military ball round delivering a piddling 350 lb-ft of KE will knock a man for several aerial back-flips with a final explosion!), when loaded with ANY soft point, hollow point, or spire point ammo, that "mere" 980 lb-ft of KE hits like the hammer of Thor with impressive destruction. The industrious "prepper" with time on his hands can easily start with bulk FMJ ammo, and modify it to HP configuration for equally impressive results. The nice thing about generic .30 Carbine ammo is that it is not watered down loadings as are most generic pistol calibers. In those areas where one can legally own the Paratrooper version, having a nifty, super-light, 26" long Carbine stoked with Hornady XTP spitzer tipped bullets would make a superior CQB choice. I highly recommend to others to grab one of these Inland new production M1 Carbines while they last. Profit margins on all steel, real wood firearms is leaner than on polymers and alloys, and this little gem could disappear just like the original 6 million that we all thought would be around forever!