Scoped M1 Carbine

[Mike]

My granddad gave me this rifle this past Christmas. It's an Inland parts gun that he built. He built one for myself, my brother, and my Dad.

Mine had no rear sight on it when he gave it to me. He said that he had a rear sight and had also had some scope mounts for it. He wanted to see what I wanted before he put anything on it. I said I'd like to check out a scope mount because I already have several M1's and it would be neat to have one that was a little different.

I figured he had one of the cheap Chinese made mounts that replaces the rear sight and would flop around. At most i would mount a red dot on it and keep fiddling with it to make sure it didn't fall off.

We went to his shop and started digging around to find the mount and he pulls out the Chinese made mount and says, "oh I also have this one too if you want but it's kind of a weird mount. It was one of the original mounts for the second generation night vision scope the military used in late Korea and early Vietnam. I looked at it and it uses redfield style rings. A twist in front ring and a side clamped rear ring. A trip to the shop and I had my rings. I had to carve a relief in the stock to get the front barrel clamp to fit in and had to drill a hole and carve a relief in the top handguard to let the post through.

I was looking at scopes and I had my heart set on a Weaver K series, fixed 2.5 power scope. Something small, extremely simple, light weight, and it seemed to fit the period. But it was out of production. All the ones I saw online were in the 200-250 range. I could get a brand new 2.5 fixed power Leupold for that.

Alas I went to the gunshow yesterday and there on one of the tables was a pile of older scopes. Weavers, redfields, k series, s series, 2.5 and 4 power fixed, adjustable, post and line, duplex reticles... Choices abound!

Found a nice looking Weaver K 2.5 asking 125 for it. After some negotiation it was mine for $70. Mounted my scope and wrapped the stock with paracord to bring my cheek up some.

Here she is today.

Edited June 27, 2010 by Mike

[Guest 10mm4me]

Cool

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

That's an AWESOME rifle.... EXTREMELY JEALOUS

[Guest G-Pa Glynn]

Nice job.

[towerclimber37]

Pretty!!

[Mike]

Thanks guys. I sighted in the scope today. She shoots very well.