Early Inland

[skohler]

First off, that's a really nice Inland. That stock is a beauty! Mine is younger, 312K, but close enough. If you want to compare pics, the link is below. Mine has a highwood oval cut with a good amount of the trigger housing exposed, but has not been sanded. Mine didn't have a date on the barrel, but enough "experts" have looked it over and came to the conclusion it is original, just missing the date.

So just because it does not fit the book, be careful making any changes. You'll be mad if you make a change and realize later it was legit as is.

Again, nice carbine!

Just remembered, mine had some blue numbers written on the inside of the stock. Some have speculated correlates with a date. Mine matches up closely with the S/N date. If your stock has these numbers, that might help with dating the stock with the receiver. It could be that the stock is original, just one that had set around somewhere before being used. Hard to say.

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