The M1 Carbine is one of my very favorite guns. It was balky and prone to jamming, wouldn't reliably extract, just a massive pain in the keister.

I come stumbling into the kitchen one morning for a cup of Wiregeek Fuel, and I happen to notice one of my friends on the couch in the living room. Hunched over and frantically scrubbing something.

Which turns out to be part of my m1 carbine - which is spread out like a parts diagram on the coffee table.

At pre-coffee-o-clock, this is "OK"

And it works ever so much better now. We literally filled a trash bag to bulging with paper towels and cotton scraps, cleaning that rifle.

Boy howdy is it fun to shoot now. The limited availability of .30 carbine is always problematic, but this, this is a Good Gun.