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What's your point?
maybe a reused serial if 1mill-were several of them
Something in the neighborhood of a 5.6 to 6.4 million if the barrel band hasn't been cut. The above mentioned reused serial number is a possibility too. I went back and looked again to see the position of the intertwined P/W and it is where you'd expect to see it if there was no chance of it having a type 3 band. Again, what's the deal?
I don't understand the mystery either. Butt plate looks like it came from an NPM. And maybe it's just a combination of your pic, my screen, and my eyes but that "M1" looks suspicious. Are you wanting to know when the carbine was put together?
Yea, looks like a 5.7 or 5.8. Are we to guess at the serial number? And why you think it is unusual?
NPM butt plate. I have seen two nice original looking Winchesters in the 6.4 range both with NPM butt plates, so I think it could be original.
So it could be a 6.4 or 6.5. The slide with a number would be latter than 5.8 and lead one to think it is a six million number.
Front sight has been off at one time. Everything I'm seeing points to a 5.7+ mil Winchester.
I believe it to also be a 5.7 or 5.8 based again on where the intertwined P/W are on the barrel. When the type 3 band was introduced, the W and P/W were moved more forward. That is if a late Winchester had both marks.
So if it looks like a 5.7 or 5.8, where is the 1 million serial number come in? what is the serial number? I'm confused....
It's an reused serial number then. Evidently, Winchester, like everyone else, scrapped receivers, but not actual serial numbers in some cases. Those serial numbers were used later in production, so it's possible to have a 1 million number that was made in the 44 to 45 range. I saw one like that on GunBroker recently. However, I couldn't tell if it was a cobbled together one or an original reused number.