Questions about an unmarked I cut carbine stock.

[INLAND44]

Man, that hand guard sure looks like a Winchester bull-nose.

[jimb16]

The more I see of it, the more it looks like an aftermarket.

[Bruce McAskill]

If it were a Hillerich & Bradsby made stock for Inland it would be HI in the sling well. If it was made by them for Standard Products it would be marked S-HB in the well. An H on the cross piece could be for anything but it would not be for H&B. I agree with Jim that it's a much newer stock. Looking at just the color tells you it never had a military finish applied to it and no sign of years of use.

[lambo35]

First of all, thanx to all you guys, your imput and ideas have been a great motivational tool to get me to read most of the carbine stickies at the top of the Carbine forum.
After going through "Badger's" very comprehensive posts on Incorperated Carbines [Commercial Carbines] I think I have found the answer to where my "I" cut stock came from. In the particular post about "National Ordnance" there is a picture of an early National Ordnance puttogether carbine in which the stock looks exactly as mine does. When I purchased this carbine in the mid 90's, I did a data sheet [form the Michigan Carbine Club, I was a member then] My carbine came equiped with 7 Winchester small parts. Badger mentioned that Robert Penney, co-owner of National Ordnance, along withe a person by the name of Arnold, had purchased many Winchester spare parts, some scrap receivers and barreled receivers and about 1000 replacement stocks that came from England via an American chemical company. All of this occured around 1958. Penney and Arnold assembled these carbines but did not mark them in any way to indicate that National Ordnance put them together. The stocks when recieved were refinished, but not marked in any way. These stocks were NOS, as new units that did not have any of the US contractor marks in the sling wells or any other area [just like mine]. The stocks and carbine actions were assembled in Azusa, Calif. [So. Cal.]. Penney lived in Pasadena, Ca. which is about 15 miles West from Azusa. Here is a coincidence, I bought this carbine along with three others at the same time from a Pawn Shop, also in Pasadena [where I worked at the time]. It is a small world!