M1 carbine pic thread

[Perplexed]

As promised. A mixmaster M1 Carbine with an early Rock-Ola receiver and slide, a S'G' trigger group, 1944 Inland barrel, etc.

That M94 Swede snuck into the pic - but hey, it's a Carbine!

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And a trio of American arms from the war (well, kind of!):

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[Police9901]

Found this in a mountain lake in Austria while scuba diving. The barrel was sticking 1" out of the mud. I pulled it out and the whole rifle was there. Hell knows how it got there. Must have been sitting down there since the end of WW2. Some corrosion, but I can still read "IBM" on it. The wood shrunk, looks almost like a mummie. I put my 'ol mag pouches on it and a rifle sling. It's sitting at my house here in Germany and makes a nice conversation piece...

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[MBB]

Found this in a mountain lake in Austria while scuba diving. The barrel was sticking 1" out of the mud. I pulled it out and the whole rifle was there. Hell knows how it got there. Must have been sitting down there since the end of WW2. Some corrosion, but I can still read "IBM" on it. The wood shrunk, looks almost like a mummie. I put my 'ol mag pouches on it and a rifle sling. It's sitting at my house here in Germany and makes a nice conversation piece...

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Was it loaded when you found it?

 

[Police9901]

Was it loaded when you found it?

Negative. No round chambered and it didn't have a magazine when I found it.

 

[MBB]

Negative. No round chambered and it didn't have a magazine when I found it.

There's no tellin what the story is behind that dude.

 

[Police9901]

There's no tellin what the story is behind that dude.

Ain't that the truth... If that rifle could talk. The lake is 20mls northeast of Salzburg/Austria.

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There were no significant battles in WW2 in that area. They basically surrendered in May 1945 without a fight. Maybe a civillian bought it on the black market, took it from a GI (dead or alive), got scared and threw it in the lake when he went fishing.

There is a bunch of German WW2 stuff in those lakes too, the Wehrmacht dumped it in there before US Forces arrived.

PS. I found this Carbine in the Mondsee.

 

[okie_gunslinger]

This is my Quality Hardware M1 Carbine, it has a 43 date on it, and has a lot the nice early model features