Quote Originally Posted by tenOC View Post
You wouldn't believe how this thing was hiding from me. Looked for it where I thought it was back in June. Was about to give up finding it tonight and it was hiding where I thought it was but took twice to find it. Anyway this will be the best place for this info. The sling has a 12 inked on it as you can see. The butt plate is the odd ball type. The 5 digit number stamped on my receiver is 13XXX. This rifle came from Gbroker from a Tennessee dealer.
I know that this thread is getting a little stale, but thank you for posting your pictures. I just purchased a USGI tin of M1icon carbine ammo and realized that I needed to jump back onto this subject.. So it looks like there are at least four examples of this same buttplate on Detroit M1 carbines. It would be nice to know who made the buttplate and stock. I also see that the butt area under the magazine pouch is a lighter color just like mine.

The history around these Detroit M1's is just fascinating. They have been kept under governmental control for almost their entire life with apparently a minimum of tinkering. All of your pictures are so similar to mine. I'm going to craft an email to Zander to see if they can tell us how many they received from Detroit and any other details. It would be neat to get a registry going of these rifles considering their unique nature.