Paid WAAAAAY too much for a carbine today. Rate my deal.

[Bill Hollinger]

Thief! Ha Ha Ha

Nice buy!

[usgicollector]

I have never seen a carbine later than about April or May of '44 with an original flip sight. I know there is the paragraph in WAR BABY ! that says that, but if I read it right the article on Inlands third SN block in the CCNL's say otherwise. The only other place I have seen anyone claim to have a later carbine with a flip sight is that waste of paper book by larson.
Does anyone have a Inland or WRA that has or shows evidence of being production gun and having a flip sight in late '44 or early '45?

On the OP's carbine don't change a thing!!! I know the half finished checkering is there, but you may have an original carbine and you don't want to screw that up for the purpose of having a good shooter. Buy another or trade this one for a good shooter and don't go chaning it just because. You may really have something there.

[DaveHH]

I was just using information I read from a certain well known group (hint) that was specific to this Inland block. According to that, the flips were used up well before this unit was made and by then the type 2 was more common. I'm probably just reading more into the tea leaves than I should be.
Again thanks
Dave

[usgicollector]

DaveHH I'm agreeing with you.

[carbinekid]

I've owned 3 Inlands in the 5.4mil block and they all had the type 3 IRCO rear sight. I've seen several others for sale and posted around the boards and the vast majority of them had the IRCO sights as well.

[feets]

oopsie!
I had the pic of the barrel band online but I forgot to link it. Here ya go:



As for a full length pic, I can't get good lighting anywhere in my house without taking the time to rig something up. So, here's the best I was able to do.



I can't get this thing to feed any of that ammo. There's got to be some way to do it. I thought the best things in life belt fed.

The stock is obviously a low wood oval cut piece. Except for the hacking and slashing it's in really nice shape.

As for that bolt, I do not see a drain hole in the bottom. There are no ID marks of any kind that I can find.


I found out what most of the markings are but what does the N on the front sight signify? It's on top of the sight stamped into a ridge running behind the blade.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Hi Feets,

It's great to see things finally working out in your favor, and I'm anxious to see how they both do at the range. I wish you could come up with a couple more USGI mags just to be sure, but the one USGI mag will probably be fine.

If the I.J. works with the GI mag, I'm with you - I'd sell it to recoup some of my money. I'm not at all interested civilian commercial copies anyway.

If the Inland functions like it is I wouldn't replace the springs with the aftermarket springs you installed in the I.J.. I've never used them. so I can't say anything from personal experience, but I've heard of situations where aftermarket springs have actually caused some problems. Most of all, if it functions with the original military springs (and it probably will) I'd want to keep them because from what we can see your gun may be completely original.

I seem to remember that you said you aren't big on woodworking. If not, I think you should consider letting Frank (frankderrico) take a shot at removing/filling those cuts. Besides being a great guy, he's a genius with stocks. If he was able to fix it, you could keep the original stock with the carbine and it would probably cost less than buying a replacement.

I'm very happy for you! After all you've been through it's great to see you finall get a break.
~ Harlan

[feets]

This Inland puts me in a bit of a bind. The biggest reason for me buying a commercial carbine was to use it as a truck gun. I wasn't going to beat it up but if it got a ding here and a scratch there it didn't matter.
I'm not a collector. When I was told about the Inland, I was expecting a typical rebuilt mix master. The price and condition was too good to pass up. If the Inland is an original I'll be paranoid about it's condition when taking it out to play.


Upon close inspection, I did find a tiny AI stamped into the left side bolt lug. I guess it's an Inland too.

What's the story on that rear sight? I understand that's a part number stamped on it but I thought that style sight was a post-war item.

[usgicollector]

Nope by your SN that was the most common sight being used. They show up on original carbines by about 5.1 mil on the Inlands.

[feets]

Thanks for the info.

Do you know anything about that barrel band?