finally, attempting to show granddad's "bringback"

[Bubba-7]

blazer91 did email me and send me a PM. I will respond here so all can see.

P7, Close, but not wear or color, Something else on a more basic level, machining.

Please look again at the left side view of the trigger housing. I have noticed over the past ten plus years in aquiring "real" original five million and up Inlands, that the pins, safety , and usually recoil plare screw head will have raised up metal in the center. A little ti* (thing on a male hog, not used) as it were. The picture clearly shows this on the trigger housing pin, hammer pin, and safety. The trigger pin could have one but picture is a little fuzzy and it would be small. I have seen trigger pins with the ti* on Inlands and it could be on the other side.

My commit was for would be restorers to look at their work and check the pins. If they do not have this raised up point, they need to get "Inland" pins. A restorer having to get pins with a ti* for his late Inlands, is the new level of which I speak.
Check recoil plate screws for those with raised up metal in the center.
Havind the ti* is another way to spot reproduction safeties. They don't have them as a rule, not fool proof, just something else to look for.

I saw nothing on the pictured carbine to inply it was not what it was thought to be. A very nice carbine. Wonderful it is staying in the family. I have so many that the family thought nothing of and sold. It makes me feel bad for them, of them, I don't know. It makes me sick to see real history on a personal level lost.

If I did not answer all the concerns raised about this carbine, please let me know.