I recently acquired an M1 Carbine and the receiver is made by SA Inc., of IL. Does anyone have information about these receivers? The piece has all GI parts and an Italian "FAT" stock.
Thanks,
Bill
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I recently acquired an M1 Carbine and the receiver is made by SA Inc., of IL. Does anyone have information about these receivers? The piece has all GI parts and an Italian "FAT" stock.
Thanks,
Bill
Someone put the FAT stock on it, as SA carbines are commercial (with cast receivers instead of forged), and I doubt that it would have come back from Italy with CMP weapons. There is a good thread with some links on the CMP forum, if I recall. I have seen a few, and they were excellent weapons and good shooters. The ones I saw had military parts with SA wood and barrels.
BTW, from what I have seen, they are the best of the non-military, commercial carbines.
Springfield Armory, Inc.
HTH
Charlie-painter777
FYI gunny33, there's a fellow over on the CMP boards who is looking to buy an SA Inc M1 Carbine, I believe his name is "mr wilmot"
link to thread on CMP carbine.
postwar springfield m1 carbine - CMP Forums
nice carbine gunny, but did springfield ever produce a complete one? or just the receivers?
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The research I have done indicates that they may have assembled a few but the majority of receivers were stand alone when they left SA Inc. I am preety sure that this one was assembled outside the factory.
SA (commercial) did produce a limited run of complete carbines, but I believe they used GI parts. SA (Military) produced just about every part except the receiver.
is the sight on this carbine pined?
I bought several Springfield, Inc., receivers around 2000 and built up complete carbines using them. I found the receivers to be top notch and gathering the parts for assembly was a lot of fun and very educational. Except for the receiver, all the parts and components are USGI, mostly old/new stock items.
Here's a picture of the last one I finished up a year or so back.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...20029396-1.jpg
nice springfield, I would love to have one :)
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Originally Posted by userids
I would to, it's a carbine you can shoot as much as you want and not worry about wearing out a collector's item. :super:
Very Nice! How does it shoot? Built up SA carbines have a certain appeal to me.
Shoots very well. With all unused USGI parts, including the barrel, it shoots like it just came off the assembly line, which in essence, it did.Quote:
Originally Posted by imarangemaster
I have another Springfield, Inc, reciever that I built up and put a new in the wrap USGI Winchester barrel on it that I bought at a gunshow back in 1995 for $60.00. That Winchester marked barrel is now probably worth more than the whole rest of the carbine.
I too built up Carbines from New SA Receivers. They are Forged Steel and Excellent quality.
I purchased 2 receivers back around 2001/2. Back then you could get alot or parts on epay. I purchased 2 awesome SA take off barrels from people restoring carbines. Nice Crossed cannons stamps and dated SA 5-52 or close to that date. I prefered used/installed as opposed to new...these indexed perfectly and headspaced perfectly with no additional work...just screwed them on...this was a critical step, and determined if I was to continue. all was great so...
Then I then bought SA M2 Trigger housings, SA milled rear sights, SA stocks....built 2 awesome SA carbines....Was alot of fun finding all the parts. a few if the parts were not New Old Stock, so I learned how to parkerize and parked a few parts. Any part that is marked, is marked SA.
I saw my first built-up SA carbine, other than my two, in Asheville NC just a few weeks ago. I wanted it, but the seller did not know who built it. Since I did not have my head space gauges with me.. I passed ($795.00).
If you have the opportunity to get one...Do it....A super shooer you'll really enjoy playing with.
Here's a picture of one of them....before adding the SA milled rear sight.
I parked the round bolt!
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Nice rifle there Levi, you did good.....Frank
nice rifle!
I am new and learning. This is only my second day and 5 post.
In any event, were these SA receivers completely interchangeable with mil spec? Have to assume so due to the remarks about using mil parts and building complete gun?
I have never seen one of these, when were they produced?
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Originally Posted by byronroland
Answers to your questions....
anyone know what usgi parts springfield made?
check the link on the post before yours....at the bottom of the page, has a parts list.