We took my rifle and painted the stock all black added a homemade compensator wirh a red dot and it out perfomes the state troopers rifles here in vt so I would say a excellent Rifle. This rifle is a very underestimated rifle. It is a Saginaw design, so it has features like the original WWII carbine if I have my history right (flip sight, no bayonet lug, etc.). By the way, it is a great gun, seems accurate enough, and a must-have. If you only have the original, you will only enjoy looking at the gun as it hangs on your wall. So read the reviews, get the gun, but make sure you have a couple of GI mags from the old days to use when you are sending lead down range. later, I put the factory mag back in and got two shots off before a jam. The gun even seemed to sound better with them.
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My GI 15 round mags were not much better, but I at least could get through a full mag without fixing something. It barely seats in the gun even with a little fight. The stock mag that came with it was awful- could not get three shots down range without the mag mis-feeding or failing in some way.
I still had to have one since I have an original WWII carbine and wanted the 'new' version to play with. I read the bad reviews online about the gun and mis-feeds, failure to ejects, magazine fit issues, etc.
I purchased this gun last month 3/2013 and it was exactly what I expected.