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So I take it it's better to get an Auto-Ordinance M1 Carbine if any? (One of those newer, replica like ones.)

younggun308, most all M1 carbines will be armorer reworked, or parts guns, that's what the Universal carbines were anyway!
Unless I could find an original gun with all matching part #s I would not think of paying the crazy prices being ask.

Younggun, I suggest you hop over to the CMP's web site and ask away on their forum. I've bought both a 1903 and M1 rifle from them and are glad to have them. I'd like to get a Carbine at some point. You are buying a piece of American military history when you purchase one, regardless of whether or not it has been to Italy or is a mixmaster. Not many M1s have all matching parts anymore, either. Unless you're willing to shell out a few more hundred for a correct rifle with matching parts, the vast majority of the rifles for sale have been arsenal rebuilt at least one time over the years.

My Garand is a Springfield made around 1956 and has an H&R bolt and spent a time in Greece. My 1903 is a Springfield made in 1931 that was rebarreled with a High Standard barrel made in Sep 1944. It also spent some time in Greece from what I can tell from the pinned floorplate and black "parkerizing". I paid about $500 for each and have no regrets. My Springfield's stock is beat up pretty bad, but the barrel is in prestine condition and the rifle shoots great.

Whether or not you think $500 is a lot of money to spend on an M1 Carbine that's been to Italy and has been overhauled at least once at an armory is up to you. For me, the history behind the rifle is what I'm buying.

To each his own.

"They are fun but they will fire with the bolt not fully locked down."

i've fired over 200,000 rounds through M1 carbines made by every company who built them for the US military. Never had this problem at all. Ifsome one is having this problem it is because of very soft commercial primers or a firing pinstuck in the bolt, probably the latter.