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range
does any body know how the m1a1 functioned it was carried by the airborne in korea
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  • range
    Found an M1A1 at auction for sale, what is involved to install selector switch, which I have, but need spring and rollpin. Have heard that other mods have to be done? At a loss as to whether to buy gun if it cannot be converted.
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  • gunnut505
    Well, it is a semiautomatic, gas operated, 8lb battle rifle that shoots the .308/7.62X51 at around 2800fps.
    Anything else?
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  • Laredo Lefty
    How about the Carbine M1A1. A semi or (full auto M2) with folding stock shooting a 110 grain bullet about 1990 fps. This was the folding stock version of the M1 carbine.

    When the trigger is pulled it releases the hammer to strike the firing pin which in turn strikes the primer of the chambered round. The fired bullet then moves down the barrel and passes a vent hole allowing gas from the fired round into a chamber. The gasses impinge on a short stroke piston that was the brain child of the character "Carbine Williams".

    The short stroke piston hits the inside of the operating slide forcing it to the rear extracting & ejecting the now empty shell from the chamber. The slide on its way forward under spring pressure from the recoil spring picks up a new cartridge from the either 15 or 30 round detachable magazine and loads it into the chamber to repeat the process over again.

    The 7.62X51 was not used in Korea.
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  • givette
    quote:Originally posted by range
    does any body know how the m1a1 functioned it was carried by the airborne in korea

    Post immediately above gives you the info on how the M1A1 functioned. Since you wanted M1A1 information, the only thing I can add is that the stock was folded into the stowed position by unlatching the lock at the hinge, and visa-versa to extend the stock again. Best, Joe
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  • PA Shootist
    Perhaps you were wondering about its effectiveness in battle? I don't know about Korea. An elderly friend of mine made (and survived) 5 combat parachute jumps in the Pacific during WWII, the last onto Corregidor, as a member of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. He told me he carried the folding-stock version of the M1 Carbine, due to its compactness and light weight. I asked him how they did at stopping or killing enemy soldiers; I had heard and or read the carbine wasn't powerful enough. He said from his experience his carbine worked just fine; it saved his life many times... To Dan Savine, from Altoona, Pennsylvania, I salute you!
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