My M1 Carbines.

[theholeinthedonut]

Forgive my ignorance,but shouldn't your Winchester have one more number in the serial?I also have a somewhat early Winchester (type 1 receiver,spring tube) and my serial is 1176194. I thought Winchester serials started at 1 million besides the 6-10 they were first assigned

Maybe a bad angle for the photo missing the last digit on the right???

It's indeed due to the angle the photograph was taken. There is another digit that is hidden.

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Forgive my ignorance,but shouldn't your Winchester have one more number in the serial?I also have a somewhat early Winchester (type 1 receiver,spring tube) and my serial is 1176194. I thought Winchester serials started at 1 million besides the 6-10 they were first assigned

Leaf backward ?

26 coil hammer spring ?

My bad, I missed that for quite a few years. I will change it the next time I will take the Winchester out of the gun vault.