>However, some of you may be interested to know that the FedEx man
>picked up my M1 carbine today; after several months on the waiting
>list, it's off to the CMP custom shop to get a new barrel fitted.

It's back! After just about exactly a month.

I'm a little disappointed that they didn't send the old barrel back with it, but I suppose I'll accept that as part of the price of having an actually rifled barrel on my carbine. It looks nice! The new one is completely unmarked as far as I can tell (I was expecting it to say CMP or CRITERION on it someplace, but no), nicely parkerized, and a hell of a lot better-looking on the inside.

(And yes, according to the price list, the new barrels sold by the CMP custom shop are made by a company called Criterion. I am assuming it is unrelated to the one that does fancy DVD releases of notable motion pictures. :)

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