Found this buried in my back yard

[five.five-six]

Report it. Maybe LE will come out and finish digging up your yard for you, looking for more gun parts. Point out that you thought you saw more stuff deeper, right where you want to run your sprinkler lines.

Free yard work.

winner!

[Fate]

...the previous owner figured the police would never look for the murder weapon where he buried it. A rototiller never figured into his plans.

That sounds just like a movie preview voice over. I can hear the guy's voice now. LOL

[TregoMark]

Quote:
Originally Posted by smle-man
...the previous owner figured the police would never look for the murder weapon where he buried it. A rototiller never figured into his plans.

That sounds just like a movie preview voice over. I can hear the guy's voice now. LOL
09-02-2009 06:09 PM

Like Bill Kurtis on A&E.

[AJAX22]

I think it's an M1 carbine. Sell it to AJAX22... he loves rebuilding these rusty relics...

:-P

YES!!!!!

[professionalcoyotehunter]

Cool. Nice find, makes me want to go rototill my yard!

Just metal detect it. It is cheaper and a lot less work.

[maxicon]

I sir, take offense to that, as I have a Universal M1 carbine........................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .........hahahahahaah kidding, yea the thing is a jam-o-matic, can never get the thing to run more than a few rounds at a time. Havent shot it in a few years because of that. To all you other guys who know about these things, is there anything that can be done to then to make them run more reliably?

My Universal ran great for years, until the slide cracked. Then it started jamming. Most of the jamming problems I've seen are magazine dependent, though mine worked fine with most mags. There were many of them sold back in the day, and they were mostly reliable shooters until something broke.

The biggest problem you're likely to have (aside from a cracked slide) is that the mag notch in the aluminum magwell gets worn and won't hold the mag securely in place. This is pretty obvious if it's the case - the mag will wiggle a lot when locked in place. Some mags fit tighter than others, so that's worth a try.

If you want to find more info about yours, here's the best site on the 'net for Universals:

http://www.m1carbinesinc.com/carbine_universal.html

I've got a light web site on them (the accessory catalog is pretty amusing), but Jim has far more detail on the guns.

http://maxicon.com/guns/universal_m1/universal_m1_carbine.htm

Here's what my cracked slide looked like. It happened in the middle of a range session, and went from its usual reliable shooting to hanging up every few shots:

[Full Clip]

Nice find. Go buy a Lotto ticket. You may be on a hot streak.

[otteray]

Maybe there's a sealed spam can of ammo out in the yard too...

[Tankhatch]

The trigger guard looks to have been melted away,,,,, so its been overheated,,, not so good to try to restore it to a firing weapon.

Ka-Boom factor

[GoodEyeSniper]

To all you other guys who know about these things, is there anything that can be done to then to make them run more reliably?

bury them

[joepamjohn]

It's an M1 Carbine. Looks like the rare "Rust-Ola" brand. They were pretty rare. A little cold blue,a stock, and some hoppes #9 and you can post it FS in the forum.

I remember some enthusiastic members talking about a gun buy back going on in Fairfield tomorrow that they were hoping to score big at. That bad boy looks like a $100.00 bill to me at one of these by backs. Now that's one I wouldn't mind seeing the anti's get off the street.

Go check it out.

[joepamjohn]

First thought was M1 Carbine. Anyway it could be a Mini 14?

Nope. it's a carbine.

[joepamjohn]

Wanna sell it? I will give ya $30..

I would be the kind of person who would tear it down and see about restoring it, if it's even possible...

Sadly it's a 1970's vintage Universal POS. You would need to dros it in this crazy state because it is still a gun by way of the law.

It probably shoots the same now as it did when it was new

[AJAX22]

I got $10 bucks says I can get it to fire... and I have a buddy with a complete one of those we can swap parts over from...

[gotgunz]

Take it to Fairfield tomorrow and get a $50.00 gift card for it and help save the world!


LOL