By liveneasy On 11/14/2008

I've only had the M1 for three days. The rating is for appearance... it's a good looking gun. But thats where it ends. The AO M1 is not built to Milspecs so surplus parts won't work. The carbine does not have the pictured bayonet ring, the walnut stock is a lacquer finish not oil and the tolerances/fit of the cheap magazine supplied is sloppy. The carbine was fairly clean out of the box but I gave it a good cleaning and oiling before heading out to the desert. I planned on feeding it a hundred rounds or so for an initial break in... thats when the problems started. I was plagued with repeated Failure to Feed and Failure to eject problems. After 2 hours and 5 rounds (2 S&B and 3 Federal) that fed and fired I threw in the towel. Even 4 known good mags wouldn't correct the problems. Warranty return is on my dime with an estimated 3 week turn a round. Of course your experience may be different, so unless your feeling lucky or just got to have a new M1 carbine clone, I'd pass on this one.