Where to Find M1 Carbine Airsoft Magazine

US M1 carbine, left side.
U.s. M1 carbine, left side.

Same M1 carbine, right side.
Aforementioned M1 carbine, correct side.

M1A1 carbine, a "paratrooper" version with side-folding buttstock.

M2 carbine, a select-fire modification with enlarged, xxx-round magazine.

.30 M1 carbine cartridge (left) shown adjacent to vii.62x39mm Russian (middle) and v.56mm NATO (.223 Rem, right).

Caliber: .thirty US Carbine (7.62×33 mm)
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 904 mm
Barrel length: 458 mm
Weight: 2.36 kg without magazine
Magazine capacity: 15 or 30 rounds

The M1 carbine is an interesting lilliputian weapon. The original asking for a compact and lightweight shoulder arm to replace service handguns for second-line (non-fighting) troops was first issued by US Army in 1938. The thought backside this asking was that a shoulder arm, such every bit carbine, firing armament of moderate ability, volition accept more than constructive range and will be much simpler to train the users to burn it accurately, than the standard .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol or revolver. This request was probably the get-go recognition of the need in the Personal Defense Weapon in the modern sense. Request was shelved for some fourth dimension and re-issued in 1940. It included the new cartridge of .30 caliber but of power far less than of Usa full general issue .30-06 ammunition. The cartridge, officially named the "cartridge, ball, .30 quotient, M1", was developed by the Winchester company. It was a directly-instance, rimless design with round-nose bullet weighting 110 grains (seven.1 gram) and muzzle velocity of 1860 fps (~ 570 m/s). Muzzle free energy was most two times more than of .45ACP pistol cartridge but still nigh 3 times less than of .30-06 rifle cartridge. In the modern sense the .thirty carbine cartridge can be called an "intermediate" but the lack of the muzzle free energy and circular nosed bullet express the effective range to about 200 meters or then. Anyway, it had withal much longer range than whatever pistol circular of its time, forth with moderate recoil. Many companies submitted their designs for The states Army trials but the winner eventually became the Winchester. The design of the Winchester carbine is oftentimes contributed to the David "Carbine" Williams, who was the developer of the gas system. But, according to some sources, this carbine was built-in as a spare-time hunting carbine projection of some engineers at Winchesters' workshop, and, when military machine request appeared, this design was resurrected and adopted for intended use. In whatsoever example, Winchester began to evangelize its first carbines to the US Government in the July, 1942. Some other manufactures also were selected to produce the M1 carbines, such as Inland Manufacturing Division of the General Motors Corp., Underwood-Elliot-Fisher Co., Saginaw Steering Gear Partition of the Full general Motors Corp., National Postal Meter Co., Quality Hardware & Automobile Co., International Business Machines Corp (IBM), Standard Products Co. and Rock-Ola Co. During the period of 1942 – 1945 total of more than 6 millions of carbines were manufactured. Since 1944, the but companies notwithstanding manufacturing M1 carbines were Winchester and Inland. After the end of the WW2 production continued for some time, and M1 carbine and its variations saw some serious activity as a beginning-line weapon not simply during the WW2, only besides during Korean and early stages of Vietnam state of war. M1 carbines also were widely exported by US Government to numerous friendly nations, more often than not in South-East asia. M1 carbines saw limited utilise in the post-war West Germany and France. Information technology should be also noted that M1 carbines are yet manufactured by various small U.s.a. companies for civilian sales, using both military machine surpulus and newly made parts. Large numbers of surpulus M1 carbines besides were sold at the noncombatant markets in the post-war period.

In general, M1 Carbine was a actually meaty and handy weapon. Information technology was lightweight and brusk enough to be more suitable for jungle combat, than a full-size battle rifles such as M1 Garand. It also offered relatively high practical charge per unit of burn down due to big-capacity, detachable magazines and low recoil. The M2 modification, which had a select-fire capability and a magazines of larger capacity (30 rounds, interchangeable with the older fifteen-round ones), could be described as an "about an assault rifle" ("virtually" is added due to the lack of effective range). Had Americans a little problem to soup information technology up slightly in the terms of power and range, they could take a true assault rifle xx years before they actually did, and probably with much less headache. But they did non, and M2 was manufactured in relatively minor numbers and was more often than not used during the Korean state of war. Another modification was the even more compact "paratrooper" version, M1A1, with side-folding metal buttstock and a pistol grip. This version also was produced in limited numbers. The last modification was the M3, which originally appeared every bit an experimental image T3. It was no more than a M2 select-fire carbine, fitted with special mounts to have night-vision sighting devices (IR sights). Intended use was as a short-range, night-time sniper burglarize. M3 as well was used in Korea and, probably, Vietnam.

Information technology must exist noted that during the war in Korea M1 carbines received some bad fame due to reliability problems in extremely low temperatures and besides due to underpowered cartridge, which was sometimes unable to effectively penetrate the thick winter uniforms of North Korean and Chinese soldiers at extended ranges.

Technically, M1 Carbine is a gas operated, magazine fed, semi-automatic or select-fire (M2) brusque rifle. It uses the brusque-piston stroke gas operated action, designed past D. Williams. Gas piston is located under the middle of the butt and has a travel of about 1/iii inch (8 mm). When gun is fired, the powder gases are bleed from the barrel into the gas sleeping accommodation and propel the gas piston violently to the rear. The gas piston thus gives a sharp blow to the operating slide, which is located inside the stock and is linked to the rotating bolt, more or less similar to i plant in M1 Garand rifle. The bolt has two forward lugs that locks into the receiver walls. The safe on all M1 carbines and variations is located at the front part of the triggerguard. On the primeval carbines the safety was in the class of the cantankerous-bolt push-button only latter it was replaced by the lever-blazon switch, because in the heat of the combat the safe push button was sometimes confused with mag release button, located adjacent to the safe. The fire style selector on the M2 and M3 was located at the left side of the receiver. The cocking handle is permanently fastened to the operating rod. Sights on the earlier M1 carbines had a flip-upwards rear diopter (peep-hole) with settings for 150 and 300 feets, and later rear sights were replaced by migrate-adjustable diopter. Carbines were issued with sling and sometimes with additional pouch that was mounted on the buttstock and allowed to carry two spare magazines on the gun itself. Early on M1 carbines had no provisions to mountain a bayonet, however, some older models had bayonet lugs on the barrel.