Whoops. I bought what appears to be an unfired

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universal m1 carbine. Looks like new, at least the pics do. Box and papers and sling and plastic factory mag and all....Its a high 3 hundred thousand SN but has the massive slide with button lock vice the holed slide with screw or square plate. Waiting to get here for a disassembly to see if its got single or double recoil springs and the military or commercial bolt/pin assembly....should tell me iif it's a model 1000 redux. If so I'll be tickled to have a very unique one, especially if the pics vet out that its super low mileage.
 
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Well, like all photos, telling 1000 lies, lets wait and see. With luck, it'll be 99% as nice as them pics and I can start shooting the bluing right off of it!
 
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Do an out of battery fire test before you shoot it. Remove the bullet and powder from a cartridge point the rifle in a safe direction and feed it into the chamber from the mag while trying to pull the trigger. If it goes off before the bolt locks don't shoot it. I guess you could also just slowly close the bolt in the chamber while pulling the trigger and listening for a snap. They are known for out of battery fire.
I have an early model in the 70,000 and it's shoots great.
 
Do an out of battery fire test before you shoot it. Remove the bullet and powder from a cartridge point the rifle in a safe direction and feed it into the chamber from the mag while trying to pull the trigger. If it goes off before the bolt locks don't shoot it. I guess you could also just slowly close the bolt in the chamber while pulling the trigger and listening for a snap. They are known for out of battery fire.
I have an early model in the 70,000 and it's shoots great.

Well, Rumor is they are known for out of battery fire...but so is the 1911 and variants, Sig Any Model, Tarurs Any model, Garand, M14, Colt M16/AR15, browning bar, M2 machine gun, Ruger Mark I/II/III, Colt baby 25, etc, ie....any automatic.....It'll be checked over but the various internet rumors about the failings of guns are like boobies on a bird,,,,,usually not there.
 
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Most semi-autos don't have a design flaw that allows out of battery fire. Universal either eliminated or badly machined the lugs that force the bolt to rotate to the locked position. They also machined the bolt so that the hammer can strike the firing pin without it being in the locked position. I was just trying to keep everyone safe by passing on information I learned while researching my Universal M1. It's a known fact that some of these rifles are dangerous and shouldn't be shot.
 
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Yep. Ours is the superior research. We have read many of the same reports and likely even John bloods blog. Its all good. If all guns were half as bad as websites say they would all be perminantly recalled and replaced with slingshots and spears. I reckon a fail is possible. Given the near half million built by one lil company in a lil town in po dunk fla they probably ain't near as bad as folks like to believe after reading a story or three with no factual evidence appended. Closest to facts are John bloods blog.
 
Yep. Linked at John bloods site. It's one I read twice before bidding. Waiting to see if I bought a redux. It has the mil style slide. With luck it'll have a single mainspring and firing pin with the tail.
 
Got it. Looks as good as the pics. I believe it's unfired. Zero blue wear and no copper in bore. Now to get it home and tear it apart to see if it's a redux
 
No pics. Everything packed. Dry as a bone. I'm satisfied it's unfired.

Single recoil spring and guide mounted to eject side of receiver.

No markings on the square barrel from slide movement

Cast mil style slide with mil lock. No wear marks or bluing loss. This is the full-u shaped slide.

Late spring loaded firing pin and bolt. No brass or hammer marks. No wear.

Perfect bore no copper fouling.

One ding on stock. No other marks

Buttplate pristine blueing, obviously never grounded.

Sling and oiler

300 yd rear peep.

Factory drilled for side scope, plastic filer still there.

No marks on screws

Metal forend cover is perfect.

Box and all factory papers

Plastic 4 rd mag is cracked but I'll get metal mags.

I'm pleased with it so far. Shooting will tell me more. It might be a redux, I'll have to research more but the solid slide is I believe the rare on at this sn range (39xxxx).
 
Sorry. Forgot to mention- gas system is pure gi. Nut and piston only. Semi automatic only. No pin to drift out allowing rotation of the piston to single shot mode
 
Looks like I got a rare one. And low or unfired to boot. Follows is a note from Mr Jim , admin at uscarbinecal30.com
 
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Hi

Yes, it's a carbine made by Universal Firearms so the parts are compatible with surplus GI parts and parts from other carbines that stuck to the standard. Not one of their hybrids they made from s/n 100k on.

These were made for police agencies that wanted carbines compatible with the others they trained with, used or had over the years. Sometimes orders/quantities changed and some of them were sold to civilians.

It's one of the ones I've called Universal Redux. Not all had the single recoil spring. Not all had the bolt with internal firing pin. They were "made to order" for whatever agency was buying them.

Your's has the highest s/n I've seen or heard of so far. The next highest is 398102. Based on the other serial numbers just before and after this one and the info I have on their sales dates it was probably made in 1978.

All of the receivers used by Universal were milled from forged steel. Typically there were two things Universal stuck with from current production on these. Their front sight with set screw and aluminum trigger housing in use at the time. Should be the reactangular one with the rectangle cut in the stock.

A rare Universal carbine with most of it compatible with GI parts.

Jim
 
I figgere some buffler bore 125g lfp's oughta spank a doe. I hunted with one of these as a youngster
 
Whoops!!!!! No more cherry. I shot three out of it. It runs. Didn't blow up neither. Must not be a piece of shit deadly at first pull of the trigger.... damn internet reviewers. Seems their most always wrong. But I like em plenty. Their pissy attitude ensures sufficient rumor to keep prices low on good shooters.
 
I had a Universal in the late 70's. I must have put 10,000+ rounds through it, most of them as fast as I could pull the trigger. Never had any issues with it.
 
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