My new SP from Rangemaster

This is a nice rifle. It came with several coats of truoil and possibly some tough shellac or varnish over the top of that on the Birch stock. It took me 3 days to remove the "embellishment" and found a neat surprise as in the slingwell is a S&C (Sprague and Carleton cartouche. This is a rare cartouche and another was verified by a CMP member. They made the first Birch stocks for Underwood, however, most were marked SC-B. Any way the rifle is SN 2,143,800 with a 12-43 Underwood barrel and the stock had a SP buttplate. Beyond that it is a typical mixmaster rebuild but in all my swapings and dealings I had a BEB trigger housing. Thanks to PI I have a correct bolt and slide. This gun is not a candidate for restoration as the rear sight is deeply staked. That said, I would like to find a SHB stock with rebuild marks and a SHB handguard. The rifle also had a M2 hammer with a washer for a spacer. I installed a White sewing machine hammer so now it is all M1. The mirror barrel is extra nice and gauges at .7. I test fired it today and it functions 100%. All in all, a happy ending. Regards, Rick.

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Outstanding. I am really glad you like it. It has a happy home, now.

That is a very nice looking Carbine. You have done a great job on the wood.
The stock looks much like a "potbelly" late war or m2 stock. Does it have a selector cut out on the left side?
A keeper for sure. :}

Chuck

Hello Chuck. There is no stone left unturned on this forum.....good call. To be honest, I never noticed the cut-out nor had I ever seen one! Regards, Rick.

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It's a very nicely done stock. Late war replacement from Sprague & Carleton.

Also nice to see it stay in the family ;)

Does it have a fabricated trigger housing? Looks like it. That is one feature that I would want to have.
It is hard here in Commieland because they just might legislate these out of the picture.

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Does it have a fabricated trigger housing? Looks like it. That is one feature that I would want to have.
It is hard here in Commieland because they just might legislate these out of the picture.

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It's a stamped braised TH supplied by IBM. According to Ruth, 10,000 were shipped to SP in Jan 1944 and marked BE-B. That's close enough for me. One of the interesting things about the SP carbines is that they had a numbering system that apparently got out of whack during this time period. The CC news letters have two SN's close to mine so bracketing the numbers for the bolt, slide etc is problematical. Also in December, 1943 there were more carbines produced than any other month.....39,000 were produced out of a total of only 247,xxx. Just another factoid that makes collecting these rifles so much fun! Regards, Rick.

was an eye opener. I got the feeling that these carbines could be a considerable mix of parts and still be as built. Imagine how many were messed up by people immediately swapping out parts that they suspected were wrong.

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Originally Posted by DaveHH

was an eye opener. I got the feeling that these carbines could be a considerable mix of parts and still be as built. Imagine how many were messed up by people immediately swapping out parts that they suspected were wrong.

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That is an excellent 12 page article from July 2011.

As you mention, guys who have say only a Riesch book and not the War Baby's or other reference materials, do the parts swap. Only later to realize maybe it was a big opps.