M1 Carbine pouch real of fake?

[edteach]

I have a chance to pick this up for 20 shipped. Its the butt stock type. Byscaine tent and awning. Thanks for any help.

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[browningautorifle]

Yes, it's a real pouch. They made MILLIONS of those. They'll be appearing NOS for two hundred years I'll bet. This one's good.

[cali201]

There is not such thing as a butt stock pouch, they are all belt pouches.

[lambo35]

Of the various styles of belt pouches, this variation fits over the M1 Carbine butt stock, the others not so well.

Chuck

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

He means by original design. Someone, somewhere, sometime, found they would slip over the stock. It went from there.

[imarangemaster]

He means by original design. Someone, somewhere, sometime, found they would slip over the stock. It went from there.

Yep, it is Type I belt pouch. The snap is to engage the snap on the web belt. Very early on, ingenious GIs realized that it fit very handily over the stock. Officers who had a pistol and a Carbine would often just have pistol mags on the belt, and the pouch on the Carbine. My dad, an NCO on Iwo Jima, used a stock pouch and a belt pouch or two. He wasn't issued a pistol.

[browningautorifle]

I could have sworn he was asking if it was an original pouch for M1 carbine mags. The stock pouch part is just wank and I paid no attention to it. He hasn't come back anyway so...