Great Day to Acquire a Carbine

Couldn't have picked a better day for my latest war horse to arrive at the FFL. She's a very early inland: 10,540. Barrel date is 8-42. She seems mostly correct, but not original due to a rebuild stamp on the stock. Let me know what you guys think!

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Great day indeed ! I'm jelous, I don't own an I stock Carbine as of yet. And a very low serial # to boot.

Best Chris

I'm leaning more towards an original carbine placed in a stock that was on a carbine that went through a rebuild , if you can see my meaning.
Chris

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Originally Posted by emmagee1917

I'm leaning more towards an original carbine placed in a stock that was on a carbine that went through a rebuild , if you can see my meaning.
Chris

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That was my thought as well Chris. I bought it under my personal assumption that even if it was a put together, or corrected carbine, it was still an early one. Everything except the stock seem to have uniform finish, wear, grime and crud, etc, except for the stock.


Just curious, what are the chances of a carbine going through rebuild and not having parts exchanged? Like an early war rebuild?

What if the stock had been damaged by a bullet or shell fragment. Just the stock would be replaced. Maybe shipped back with other damaged weapons to the arsenal. Only what would need replaced would be fixed.

That scenario would have required RIA to ignore MWO-1 if occurring after March 20, 1944 (and likely as early as November 1, 1943).

Further, replacing a stock is 2nd Echelon maintenance - a unit armorer job.

I spent two years in the army and they paid little or no attention to regulations. If some dope broke his stock you can bet that the armorer took a stock off some spare or unissued weapon and put it on the offending weapon. It was far worse in Vietnam. Have you ever been in an I.G. inspection? They would trade items, steal jeeps, have people make up fake hand receipts, anything to get around regulations. You live in a dream world of regulations. The real world was far different.

My, my, aren't we testy. Try to get some rest and realize there's room for all sorts of differing opinions. I even enjoy yours sometimes - on the rare occasion they have some factual basis.

Might want to throw away any 1940s-50s TMs and FMs you have since they're filled with those pesky procedures that you seem to think were banned in the 1960s. In trying to solve a historical puzzle like this one, rational folks start with the known, then inch towards a better defined question. Anecdotes from the 1960s aren't all that predictive of WWII conditions.

Had you ever read MWO-1, you might have noticed that RIA was designated as one of three facilities OD used to distribute the parts required for the mod. Not a dream world at all.

This forum encourages differing ideas, opinions, and first hand accounts. We should take into consideration that first hand accounts will vary with location and the conditions where someone has served. What may have happen in a back line unit or in the states is not always how it may have occurred in a combat unit.

What our forum wants to discourage is disrespecting the views and opinions that may differ between members. We can share our accounts and still stay friendly towards each other.
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May I add to this difference of opinion? As a parts clerk in the 6/10th FA in Ger. 1973-74. I had 2 sets of books [requisition orders] one for inspection and one for keeping parts that were needed to keep unit functional. I had a trailor full of parts not on my books, also parts that we needed to function. In my opinion; personnel in charge of supply and demand did what was nessasary to keep parts needed to keep their unit functional. That is what I did and trained for by the person I replaced. IT WORKS! GK.