20 years ago, every carbine that went on these forums was picked to pieces. The responses ranged from expert to don't know nuthin'. A lot of people assumed that since the Win cartouches were always so fresh looking that they had to be humped. It ultimately came down to the truth: their stamps were just deeper and sharper. Another anomaly was that markings in the slingwell on Win. were sometimes missing, incorrectly done or well hidden in the wood grain. I'd bet that since Win. made their own stocks that it wasn't an issue for the stampers (We know who made them, so does everybody else). If I was using somewhat sketchy quality stocks made by someone else I'd be very interested in telling the user who did screw up. I have an original 1944 Inland that has nice Hillerich & Bradsby matching wood. The handguard is so poorly done that it obscures at least half of the front sight. It works but just barely. It came with the gun and Inland used it because they were in a hurry. You wouldn't see that on a Win. As far as the parts of your Win. stamping being different, I think that their only concern was getting the two parts on the same line. You never see vertical screw ups but you do see spacing differences. I'm very thankful that the vetting by ignorance phase of these forums was ended years ago. Riverbank George used to actually participate arguing like crazy about how all his stuff was genuine.