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[Bruce McAskill]

Rocky, Your right, they are here and trying learn just like you. We had to learn and quite often the hard way and got taken but we did learn from our mistakes. The best advise I can give you is to compare any part you are looking at to one that you know is real even if it's just pictures compare them. Almost every time you will see the difference between the real one and a fake. That's how many of us got our carbine education and most of us have taken years to get as far as we have gotten. Carbines are some of the most difficult firearms to collect in collector grades as there were so many changes made by the powers that were in charge for the contractors,sub contractors and in parts going from one contractor to another as well as revisions of just about every single part in a carbine and in many cases more then once with over 6 million of them made is just over a three year period. The result was mass confusion for carbine collector which the great rebuild programs of the late 40's and 50's did not help. Read and study the books,compare photos and take notes of any good info on the forums,ask questions and you will be fine. So welcome to the world of carbine addiction.