My ser# is 402xxx and was built in the mid 70's so I don't think yours is too much earlier, definitely not C&R.I am a new member and not sure just how this works. I will say the "late" Universal isn't in the same league as a GI but to say it's a POS I think is just internet bullsh*t. Fortunately, I know where to source one when/if it's needed. The bolt carrier is a poor money saving design that will crack someday but it hasn't yet on mine.
I never knew it was a POS until I read it on the net.Īfter reading how they can fire out of battery (any gun can if it's not right) I tested mine and it won't pop a primer until the bolt is damn near closed.
They also have dual (as in 2 little schitty) recoil springs instead of the single recoil spring of the military and mil-spec carbines.Īlright.I have a late Universal that I bought new Big5 in 1978.Ĭontrary to what gets posted on the net based on one actual story where a late Universal fired out of battery, I've never had a problem with mine after many thousands of rounds.
These steaming steel turds can be quickly identified by the stamped and welded operating rod handle, which has a hole in the middle of it that you can see the right bolt lug through. Thus we got the infamous and much detested and reviled "late Universal", the true bottom feeder of the carbine world. military arsenals that improved and upgraded them. Then some glue sniffing moron (this was before crack) at Universal decided that he was the ultimate El Supremo Carbine God and that he, in his volitile chemical inhaling wisdom, knew more about M1 carbines than the engineers at Winchester who designed the gun or the U.S.
As the supply of military parts ran out, they went to more and more new commercial parts, but these were all interchangable with military parts. parts except for the receiver, then they ran out of military barrels and started using new made barrels and receivers with G.I.
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