My Saginaw. Finished

Here is my CMP Saginaw barreled receiver with IBM barrel. The recoil lug is also Saginaw, but everything else, including stock and handguard, is mid-war Inland. The sling, Type one band, and Type one rear sight are repros from Nick Daley. While they are nice, they would not fool anyone. I put all late features including a walnut potbelly on my CMP Inland. SInce it is a tack driver, anyway, it will be my "shooter." The Saginaw will, for the most part, be in the shadow box with my dad's Iwo Jima stuff. (He did carry a Saginaw for a short time - I think on Saipan).

RM,

Now you realize that you have not finished the job yet. Where is the target from the test firing at the range? Ya got to shoot it to prove it works!

Looks great, I know you are happen that you got this one built. Your father would be honored. ~ Ed

I hope to take it to the range in the next week or so.

While on Iwo, I know my dad carried an Inland. He said it had "the new sights you could adjust", so I am assuming it was a transitional one. made late 1944. I had one about three years ago that was an original with a type II band and sight, but it was so shot out, it was minute of milk jug at 25 yards!

Nice, great looking wood too. Nice Jap grenade. Those have to be rare these days.

Nice little set up there IRM and a nice tribute to your dad.

Both the MK 2 US and Japanese type 97 my dad got on Iwo. The Type 97 was one that a sapper tossed into his squad's tent at night, but was a dud. He talked about hearing the "rrrrriiiiiippppp" of the bayonet cutting the back of the tent, and the thud of the grenade hitting the ground in the tent.. Someone screamed "GRENADE" and they all hit the deck! He said it was absolutely the longest 5 seconds of his life!

He modified the MK 2 into a cigarette lighter, but I later replaced the fuse and lever with an expended, but non modified one. (I wish I had left it alone, but hindsight is 20-20) The Type 97 he had EOD empty so he could try to do the same, but he never got around to it. Both are hollow shells now. I also have a empty 20mm Oerlikon mounted on a piece of granite. All of those items figured in my storming Guadalcanal and Iwo as a kid in the woods behind my house in the 50s and 60s.

Check my listing in the WTS. Life happens. Moving this and two other weapons. Don't want to sell on Gunbroker because of the repro sight and band. Figure the folks here have more class and won't try to fake anyone.

PS, you don't have to say "I told you so"

Nice Carbine and a good looking arrangement, Bernhard!!!

Sorry to hear that you have to sell....hope things work out for you.

Thanks! No crisis, just some things have come up. It is a matter of priorities: Grandkids or guns. No contest. Selling my AR180 also.

imarangemaster,

I have to be the Eeyore here. And I am sure to get flamed by some. And if I am out of line the moderators will also let me know and reprimand me. But I have to say it.

OK, here is the scenario we were talking about just a few weeks ago when you were putting these repo parts on. It was mentioned that somewhere down the line it could be sold.

But no, it was going into a shadow box as a tribute/honor to your father.

Skip forward only a few weeks, needs change and it is for sale. It's your weapon, and as said before, you can do whatever you want to or with it. I'm sure you can build another to honor your father later when or if life happens again for the better. No disrespect meant. Everyone at times has run into a financial situation.

I don't think the disclaimers "Don't want to sell on Gunbroker because of the repro sight and band. Figure the folks here have more class and won't try to fake anyone." and "The sling, Type one band, and Type one rear sight are repros from Nick Daley. While they are nice, they would not fool anyone." is correct. Maybe they won't fool the first buyer, because they read this and bought it off of the WTS. And it will sell, because $675 delivered with the extra items you listed is a fair deal. But if they are buying just to resell and make some money, will they tell the next buyer? Probably not.

You have said many times you are a shooter and not a collector. And many people are. Nothing wrong with that. Some of us are both. We shoot some of our carbines. But with original G.I. parts on them. Some we probably never fire just because we value them so highly.

From the way you talked before, I would have thought if you were ever going to take it out of your shadowbox to sell, you would at least have put the G.I. parts back on it. Then sell the repo parts.

But this way, sadly, all I can say is it's another win for the repo guys.

Jim

JIm,

I do understand your point. I actually would have put an original II or III rear sight and band back on it, IF I HAD THEM. It was a barreled receiver I built up. The only extra Type III band I had, I sent to Gunner since he has limited access to Carbine parts.

That's why I only listed it here. If it doesn't sell here, I will probably keep it and sell the Inland on Gun Broker. As for selling it, weeks ago, I had no intention of selling it.