GUN install a new barrel on M1 carbine?

[Ebtromba]

say I buy a rack grade (rack grade= pretty busted up) M1 carbine from the CMP. how hard/expensive would it be to have a smith put a new barrel on it? would there be a ton of fitting involved, and are such replacement barrels even available?

 

[thegooch]

Why not just spend $80 more and get a service grade?

 

[Ebtromba]

very few if any of them left... http://www.thecmp.org/m1carbine.htm

only inland, and its price of $495 which is nearly the same of those of rack grade doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

 

[GarandBobcat]

inland is cheapest because they made, by far, the most carbines. All the others have a "collector's premium" attached to them.

I wouldn't sweat the lack of a massive price difference; I'd celebrate it.

 

[thegooch]

inland is cheapest because they made, by far, the most carbines. All the others have a "collector's premium" attached to them.

I wouldn't sweat the lack of a massive price difference; I'd celebrate it.

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[Ebtromba]

hmm ok

perhaps I should just go with that