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so the serial number always dictates who made the receiver?

it is an Inland receiver

Bill's wife, Sue, contacted the club today to let us know Bill had passed.
Rest in Peace Bill.

Obituary https://www.tributearchive.com/obitu...illiam-j-ricca

William J. Ricca, 77, of New...

Bill's wife, Sue, contacted the club today to let us know Bill had passed.
Rest in Peace Bill.

Obituary https://www.tributearchive.com/obitu...illiam-j-ricca

William J. Ricca, 77, of New...

Bill's wife, Sue, contacted the club today to let us know Bill had passed.
Rest in Peace Bill.

Obituary https://www.tributearchive.com/obitu...illiam-j-ricca

William J. Ricca, 77, of New...

On my mobile device it looked like two dowels in place of the cases. The cases did have bullet heads. one of them seems stuffed in the barrel stub

Do not make any more cut, or alter in any way! Look closely at the wood stand, is there a ghost of a missing tag? Screw holes?
It was not made by bubba.
More to follow

If you look closely you can see the original serial number ending I believe with 071.
So the question is if amnesty registered as a MG or just because of the serial number?
If it was amnesty...

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We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Larry L. Ruth on May 1st, at age 82 after a battle with cancer. Larry was one of...

Bob and Wayne, thank you for bringing it to our attention. In this case I believe the picture became corrupt and when fixed the text got covered.
Should look good now, if not hit f5 to refresh your...

Eddy, Possible long shot here, Is the Inland name altered in any way? can you post a picture. (is Charlie is now saying to himself Ahh!?)
I am guessing the Rockola name on the barrel is not present...

Blued vs polished and blued.
Look at the one on HLV and notice the two tone appearance of the side of the receiver.
They blasted the top of the receiver to reduce glare.

The one that you are...

Are the links to the faked 30 rounders bad or did the seller pull the listings?

Saginaw plant used the large 3/16 letters first and then went to the smaller 2/16. There are also Saginaw plant receivers with no letters.
the change in size of letters took place in the 3,340,xxx...

Something to consider, Parker Manufacturing made recoil plates for several companies, including IBM and NPM.
I have not done the math or timeline, but it may be possible they shipped some of the...

We are still working on updating the code on several Ricca pages, so more to follow.

@Painter, your link to Bill's posts are not working

@RAselkirk, Bill is a long-time member and contributor...

Machining run out. Likely not in the jig properly.
Possibly the machine operator fed the bit too fast.

I have seen a few SA slides like that.

Jim, thanks for all you do. Wishing you the best on your retirement.
In my prayers.
Best,
Dan

As to the size of cannons I will point out that different books did things differently. Further the published catouches in books are prone to error. Some I think intentionally, and thank you for...

A better picture of the CC would help, Gunsdora you out there?

here is it blown up.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2018/08/fakeInl-1.jpg

Cannot see much but I do not like what I...

Bill had said Beverly Mass in one post which may be in error.
Checking War time producers that had contracts over a certain amount that there are several Keystone names all over. There is a...

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https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2018/08/orchard-1.jpg


Hmm, Should this be posted in the older thread?

Found another...

Charlie, Excellent! Where was that article from? My stock is not a Para. Evidently at some point they received more carbines.
One search I found said Orchard Lake is a suburb of Detroit. Is there a...

very interesting, I have a Trimble TN (Trimble to NPM :p) that was transferred to SG and marked in sling well. It is stamped Orchard Lake PD.
It has two holes on bottom but back near trigger housing...

I have a 1905 in .32SL but unfortunately it has a .35WSL mag.