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*Fieldstrippimg the M1 Carbine. *By serger

26 October, 2002

The process for Field Stripping the M1 carbine Im going to describe is straight out of the U.S.Army Field

Manual 3-27. Ill use my own words because I dont like their wording.

Here is an exploded drawing of the rifle without wood.

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If you retract the slide all the way there is a button on it that you can press into the cutout in the upper receiver.

This will allow you to examine the chamber. To disengage this feature retract the slide more and the detent will

unlock from the upper receiver.

With the rifle unloaded and on safe unscrew the barrel band and depress the barrel band lock spring.

When the spring is depressed pull the barrel band toward the front sight and when it clears the wood you can lift

the hand guard up and off the upper receiver

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You can now lift the barreled receiver out of the stock. It will pivot on the recoil plate.

You need to push out the pin that holds the trigger group and slide the group toward the barrel. This will allow it

to clear the upper receiver.

Next you will remover the recoil spring from the slide. To do this you retract the spring slightly and lift it from the

slide. You will then be able to pull the guide and spring from the upper receiver.

Next we need to remove the slide from the upper receiver. If you look at the right side of the slide there is a cut

out.

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Its that funny little area in the top center of the magazine channel. It will lift up.

Next you need to align the firing pin with the cutout in the receiver to pull the bolt.

When you have removed the bolt the rifle is field stripped.

It will look like this.

There are few problems that I know of when youre ready to assemble the weapon. Be sure to look at the

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alignment points and dont force anything. Thats about it.

Stripping the Carbine Trigger Group

Stripping the Carbine Bolt Dissassembly

Thanks for the read

serger

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