component 150 or 170 gr FMJ ROUND NOSE

[browningautorifle]

look under the buttplate

We had the job of rebluing a carbine once and found a novena folded up under the buttplate.

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The "Spruce Gun."

Spruce...Gumwood? It was an attempt to lighten the carbine, weighed 1/3 less than walnut. It was so soft you could dig it with a thumbnail, was unsuccessful. Looks like it may have been a ranch gun with that number stamped in the butt heel.

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[rcathey]

Spruce...Gumwood?

The way I read it, they were nicknamed the spruce gun because they guarded the spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest. Spruce was vital to the war effort for building airplanes.
One of the scarcer US military firearms out there but they do turn up and fly under the radar when they do

[browningautorifle]

they guarded the spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Yes it was, fair enough. Another martial use, not to forget the foraging guns of WW1, I wonder what their ammo was?