Quote Originally Posted by painter777 View Post
jond,
There are many stocks out there with no markings left.
Your stock is a M2 stock. It is a Type V and may be unmarked but I believe it's a Springfield.
It has the long 4.15 barrel channel.
Factory cut for the Selector lever.
Full Recoil plate support seat.
Under your Butt plate you'll find 3 holes.

If you compare the profile of the picture below of a SA, you'll see it is a 'potbelly'.
Some M2 stocks had even more of a pronounced 'Belly'.
You'll also see the same milling inlet cuts inside for the trigger housing.

Profile:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...1/sl1600-3.jpg

Trigger housing milling:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...1/sl1600-4.jpg

IMO,
These make for the best shooter stocks.

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GIBOBUS,
I call a regular Type III that HAS the long channel and recoil plate support either a 'LATE' Type III or Type IV.
First model M2 stocks... Type V.

And yes will be checking returns after running out to the garage for a smoke.
thanks guys, this has been bugging me ever since I bought it a decade or more ago. And I'm glad to hear that it is the best stock for shooter carbines, because I know my carbine isn't a collectors piece, it's just a Mix Master shooter. I have always loved this little carbine and have wanted to know all the little details about it from trained eyes in the know.thanks again guys, even though I've owned this carbine for a long time, you guys are allowing me to get to know it a little deeper then I could ever on my own. When I first bought it, like an idiot,I did not disassemble the bolt and clean it before shooting it for the first time and it threw the extractor completely out of the bolt on the second shot I ever fired through it. Luckily I found the extractor using a metal detector in a field with high grass and it was still in one piece (I expected to find a broken extractor). There was nothing wrong with the extractor so I put it back in the bolt and replaced the extractor detent and Spring and cleaned out all the holes and crevices in the bolt and she has ran like a clock ever since(now I strip and clean the bolt every five or six hundred rounds or so). That alone taught me to disassemble and clean every bolt on any surplus rifle (before firing for the first time)I have bought since ,including my Garand. I think M1icon carbines have the most interesting history.thanks again to everyone,especially you Charlie

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Quote Originally Posted by USGI View Post
jond's last picture has something (looks like a marking) in about the same location where SA stocks are marked. - Bob
it does look like that in the picture, but it is just a dent