Confused on new inland......blued....

hey guys, not to sure exactly what I bought. a friend of mines dad was a old SF guy and gave him a M1 carbine...this is my second M1 and I wasn't going to buy it because the stock is carved into more of a grip style but not cut off, and the hand guard has been drilled much like the metal ones....the crazier thing is its blued, receiver, barrel marked 5-44, barrel band are all blued....the thing was nasty so I took it apart and every part I see has the right markings for that M1....because of the price I got it for I was just going to modernize it, but figured I wasn't messing anything up.....sn# on this M1 is in the mid 5 millions thanks guys in advance.....

Sounds like it's been heavily modified for beauty or personalizing. You should take a few decent pics and let us see. They weren't blued for starters. The wood hand guards didn't have holes...

that's what I was thinking also...forgot to say it has a knock off flip rear peep sight on it... was just making sure it didn't start as one of the presentation rifles I have heard of that were blued....and the modifications for beauty are defiantly in the eye of the beholder...its ugly and in rough shape, but he needed money and I had a extra $200...lol

If it functions and shoots then it's worth the $200. I seriously doubt it would be a presentation. They were numbered differently anywayzzz, Pics would help though...

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Definitely been through the mill. You could resurrect it by getting replacement wood, bead blast and Parkerizing and then it would look about like it should. Providing the barrel is good inside. Or just shoot it like it is.

Does that front band have a bayonet lug on it? If not, it may have some value to it. - Bob

barrel band is with bayonet lug......anyone ever seen a llower with the red color before? the rifling is in great shape so I thing I will refinish and rebuild......

The 'red' color is called 'plum', and it reflects a bad bluing job when it's that red.

That's a fact. Too cold temperature if I recall. Or too weak of a solution...but a re-parkerize would make all that go away. Bead blast the blue off and re-park...