Lunch Bucket Special

here is a true lunch bucket special, gun was made by Saginaw worker and obvious take home of unmarked or unproofed parts --- note no hardness test of receiver, extra shims made for either barrel or receiver milling errors, note the cross threaded gas cylinder, note the super Q-RMC stock -it all adds up to what would have been easy to take home. ironically had IP firing pin, U bolt, and couple other oddities-some of these parts were transferred to Saginaw. It was cool gun. Picasa Web Albums - Carbine - lunch bucket ...

Rear of receiver looks played with
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nah, just ground off, you can see evidence of name and serial

What sets this carbine apart from one that has had the name and serial number ground off is the lack of proofs on the receiver and bolt.

barrel was not proofed either--I totally missed the bolt not being punchmarked--you got the "eye" Brian!

On picture #2....Are the dimples on that butt plate inside out...like the one I posted the picture of a while back?

Charlie-painter777

I will have to dig it out and see, missed that too-I never took off from memory

I looked at another pic I had It looks ok

Do you think it's possible that whoever took the parts did a half hearted job of grinding off the serial number and maker to hide the evidence of a missing receiver?

prob incase caught, couldnt determine where it came from

In war baby there is mention of reeceivers having name and serial ground off at the Saginaw plant for transfer purposes, one of posters here has one that had saginaw sg ground off and then Inland Div stamped over the top so there is proof needed to confirm was done at Saginaw SG-some presentation guns were ground off at NPM also as is letter from Army or someone in War Baby comes home stating that for them to give away name and serial had to be removed. I am typing from memory so I may have read somewhere else also. I think guy grabbed one of them and must have been half way honest as either barrel or the receiver was a out of spec part and requires the shims to head space properly. Also may be was never done properly too.

Don't forget, during the war the M1 Carbine represented high military technology. It's possible that anyone caught stealing parts could have been considered a spy until proven othewise. IIRC it was about 15 years after the war when they started selling Carbines through the DCM. It would definitely have been contraband before that.
So, those guys who assembled 'lunchbox' Carbines were out there on a limb for sure1