It clearly has a tight chamber because I have to watch the trim length on my handloads much more closely for it than on my '43 NPM. The new AO M1 Carbine I got recently as described above turned out to be extremely accurate for a carbine as well. He's to ignorant to know his cheap carbine can't shoot that good! My Neighbor, who is not well versed in rifles, but likes to shoot, was busting the 12" balloons I use for wind flags at 300 yards with open sights with it. I have my nieghbors Universal in my safe, I'm working up some hand loads for him and have been to the range with it a few times. I'm very pleased because now I have a completely new M1 Carbine and I don't have any worries about shooting the snot out of it and destroying it's value. So far, I've been to the range three times with it and I've run a total of 400rds through it without a single feeding or ejection failure while using all 7 of my GI mags. The AO comes in a WWII configuration with a push button safety, early barrel band with no bayo lug, a flip rear sight, but with a late model 30rd style mag catch and operating slide (so the brass flies to the side rather than the rear). I just wanted a shooter that was decently accurate so I opted for a NIB wood stocked Auto Ordnance (Kahr) from Bud's at $651 delivered instead. After a long search, I realized that for $600 - $700 all there was out there in GI models were tired, worn out carbines with a shot out barrel and horrible stocks. But I decided to get a shooter carbine to have fun with. I've had a '43 NPM carbine for close to 40 years that's a Rock River Arsenal rebuild. Today, buying a later Universal is a crap shoot as to whether you'll get a bad one. Just enough to get a reputation as a rifle to avoid. These later versions got a bad reputation, but as is always the case not all of them were bad, probably not even a high percentage were bad. The bolt's locking lug can be seen through the slot. These later models can be easily recognized by the stamped op rod with an open slot where the cam surface is. These later carbines used a different gas system design, a double recoil spring, and an operating rod made from stamped steel that was welded together. In the early 1970's Universal did a total re-design of the carbine and it became more of a "look-alike" that was no longer made to the GI design. In fact, the very early rifles used mostly USGI parts with a commercial cast receiver.Īs time passed and the supply of good GI parts dried up they began making more and more parts from cast steel.Īs with all guns, some of these had problems. The earlier Universal's were more or less exact copies of the USGI design with most parts interchanging. This totally depends on the age of the carbine.
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