I feel that this upgrade is far more respectful and reversible to the M1 compared to the EBR thing. There's just fewer and fewer M1's anymore, which is the same reason I'm extremely hesitant to make permanent changes to my Nornico SKS, it's all about the history.
They made quite a lot of M1s, they're around pretty widely and you can still get refurbed ones from the CMP at a price which I think is very agreeable for a what's actually a very good semi-automatic milsurp rifle, especially for its era. Try getting a Walther G43, SVT-40, or Hakim for even a third of the price of a decent M1, and those rifles are just far less shootable, the M1 is even easily available in .308 Winchester, and with the original .30-06 Springfield you can feed it high powered hunting loads assuming you've replaced the gas plug with something like a Schuster adjustable one (but don't without one).
The M1 also has widely available surplus AND new clips, as well as various spare parts (to a degree, even in Europe), which cannot be said for those other examples, magazines for those are rare, and magazines just do not interchange freely between SVT-40 rifles, they had the same issue in production there as with the PPSh-41, sets of mags had to be paired with the gun in question.
The only other comparably practical milsurp semi-auto rifle today is the SKS, which is cheaper and has generally cheap ammunition, and while it's an overall decent rifle, I think the M1 is a lot better and a lot nicer, weighing basically the same but with better ergos and sights, with higher power and a faster reload.
Further, Fulton Armory offers brand new parts for the M1, and will offer to build a new rifle if you provide them with a receiver, even to the short Tanker style. A bit pricy, but it's there, perhaps one day, the 3D printing revolution will allow the development of replacement tooling to make new M1 and BM59 receivers.
Thoughts on Barret being 100% acquired by a *gasp* Australian company?
RONNIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Henry just released a PCC with wooden furniture that takes Glock mags. Not gonna lie, I kind of want one.
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That actually looks very clean and sleek, it's pretty in a modest manner. A plastic Glock magazine feels a bit out of place for such a pretty and old fashioned looking gun, but I see the practical aspect, and with one of the shorter mags it won't look too bad. Maybe it has an interchangeable magwell?
Hah, didn't know you could flip up a piece on the stock on these so you could use clips.
It was "fine" the last time I ran it, and like you said, it still won't handle anything approaching the old Norma loads "properly" as it will still bulge those a little bit. Off the shelf blasting ammo is fine now, but I didn't buy this pistol just to shoot weak downloaded rounds.
Try replacing the firing-pin stop? If you get one with a square profile (like the rearmost in the picture here) and fit it to the pistol, and then carefully radius the edge facing the hammer until you get a balance of not getting bulged cases, and the slide not being completely unbearable to rack with the hammer down, that might help. It'll reduce felt recoil and wear too. (You'd probably still want to cock the hammer before racking it anyway). Anyway, I can't say I'm too surprised at nuColt fucking something up.
MSRP is going to be over $900.
Not the worst IMO, it'll probably come down a bit with time.
