Good morning!

Some very good info on the Underwood carbines specifically:

https://m1family.com/a-little-history-of...s-t14.html

Mine is also an Underwood 1943. Unfortunately. it’s also a Blue Sky bring back with the heavy import stamp on the barrel. Upside is that I had an FFL back then and it only cost me 135 bucks!

Terry

 
Thank you. I’ll look at that.

I can’t give you a dollar figure, but Dad got both his Garand and his carbine before prices went crazy. I want to say that, together, they cost him under $700. My 1911 isn’t surplus- it’s Norinco. Apparently completely interchangeable with a M1911A1 (but, of course, I don’t really know).

All three are a sheer pleasure to shoot. I loaded some 30-06 a while ago from service rifle recipes in Hornady 11th Edition and they shoot great. I don’t have 30 Carbine dies.