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Originally Posted by fula farbrorn
Folding stocks could easily be bought and retrofitted to any M1 carbine that lacks it, and the round packs a fairly okay punch at longer distances, though i wouldnt lob it out longer then 300 or so meters.
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Are optics all that useful on a M1 carbine? That's not a high-velocity round and the BC is poor, so the trajectory is impractical for any distance anyway.
Considering that you need gunsmithing to be able to mount a scope at all, I am unsure that they'd be worth using optics. Simply replacing worn or broken wooden stocks for a few dozen with folding wire stocks would probably be adequate for the purpose, as long as you had space for a 25" long piece and no need for longer range than about 150 meters.
These are especially attractive to cache somewhere there
might theoretically be a need for them in the next decade or three, as that's where you don't want to spend huge sums or too much time from your skilled gunsmiths on stuff with a low probability of being important.
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Originally Posted by fula farbrorn
The AR 180 looks like the better option and depending on supply could easily be loaded with some interesting bullets.
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As long as those are commercially available in the early 1990s.