{"id":5629,"date":"2013-02-05T05:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:04:55","slug":"the-48-m1-carbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5629","title":{"rendered":"the $48 M1 carbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I was in Cabelas looking at the guns I don&#8217;t own yet, and saw a little Plainfield carbine in the showcase. I asked to look at it and they unlocked the case- it wasn&#8217;t there because it was particularly valuable, but because it wouldn&#8217;t fit in a rifle rack because of its hideous wire stock. It looked like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imfdb.org\/wiki\/File:M1CarbinePlainfieldPM30.jpg\"> this. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew exactly what it was, and though it was an ugly duckling I could see it in a new stock already. <\/p>\n<p>So Partner loaned me the cash and I haggled them down to $248, if memory serves. I think on that day we also negotiated a Springer for Partner. Anyway, since then, I have tried to  pay him back for it, but he says it&#8217;s commission for the money I&#8217;ve negotiated off his firearm purchases (I seem to have the soul of an Arab goat trader.) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway I got a nice new stock from a friend of mine who manufactures them, and finished it nice, and it looks like this. I&#8217;ve posted this picture before.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3409\" alt=carbine03.png src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/carbine03.png\" height=150><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3411\" alt=carbine04.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/carbine04.jpg\" height=250><\/p>\n<p>The old stock sat around gathering dust for some years until I decided to put it on Ebay, where I got $200 plus shipping for it as fast as you can imagine. <\/p>\n<p>So the carbine cost 48 bucks, basically. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I was in Cabelas looking at the guns I don&#8217;t own yet, and saw a little Plainfield carbine in the showcase. I asked to look at it and they unlocked the case- it wasn&#8217;t there because it was particularly valuable, but because it wouldn&#8217;t fit in a rifle rack because of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}