06-18-2019, 06:51 AM
I know my grandfather preferred the M1/M2 carbine to his M1 Garand. Said the carbine worked much better for him when he was in Burma, China and India. That said, he said the best one if you could get it was a Thompson, but all the officers would claim them and "You got to wait for the japs to shoot the bastards so you can take it." I know when I got am M1 when I was younger he showed me how to strip it, all the way down to pulling the gas piston out under the barrel. Maybe I need to get another one, I miss the one I had all those years ago,