M1 Carbine - shopping advices Please

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  • airbornetrooper

    Active Member
    Nov 9, 2017
    137
    VA
    I have a Blue Sky carbine that is just fine. Always a good shooter, and the barrel stamp is no where near as bad as the huge billboards we've come to accept on receivers. No, it doesn't deform the rifling.

    If I could get a little plutonium to recharge my flux capacitor, I'd go back and buy a truck load of those Blue Sky imports.

    I owned a Blue Sky Quality Hardware and had no complaints. The rifles got a bad rap, but I agree the import mark isn't nearly as horrible as the dot matrixes companies like CAI use now.
     

    Jimbob2.0

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    Feb 20, 2008
    16,600
    I owned a Blue Sky Quality Hardware and had no complaints. The rifles got a bad rap, but I agree the import mark isn't nearly as horrible as the dot matrixes companies like CAI use now.

    Id buy one for a shooter or swap barrels. M1 carbine barrels are still fairly cheap and easy to find and easy to change. I agree the "rumors" of hard stamping to compress the bore are probably myth.
     

    44man

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    MDS Supporter
    Feb 19, 2013
    10,129
    southern md
    Greentop had at least one Sunday when I️ was there. Rockol i believe bit it was expensive, somewhere around $1200
     

    Jimbob2.0

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    Feb 20, 2008
    16,600
    Greentop had at least one Sunday when I️ was there. Rockol i believe bit it was expensive, somewhere around $1200

    Depending on the condition/features that's not out of market for a Rockola. They are some of the most expensive. Presuming its GI Rockola and not "repop" Rockola (aka James River Armory) and inland (rebooted not sure who is backing it). I suspect these are not bad guns but with reasonably priced originals still on the market I would go USGI.
     

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