? about Saginaw with S'G' rear sight

[Maniac]

The stake marks are not damaged like when a sight is removed and reinstalled, that is why I was questioning this sight. The other 3 bavarians I bought all have the correct rear sight on them. I guess It could be a replacement sight, but I tend to think this is original. I will take some better pics of the rest of the rifle and the stake marks in particular. Thanks for the input.
Dave

usgicollector, what does this S.G. have for a barrel? If the receiver was sent to Grand Rapids for completion it would probably have either an Underwood or Buffalo Arms barrel. If the barrel is a Saginaw it was probably assembled by S.G.

HTH

[usgicollector]

Both carbines have Saginaw barrels

[Maniac]

Both carbines have Saginaw barrels

My guess would be that unless they happened to get a Saginaw replacement barrel when they were rebuilt they were both assembled by S.G. in their Saginaw, Mich. plant.
Due to the fact that USGI M1 carbine ammo is non-corrosive an M1 carbine is much more likely to have an original barrel than an M1 Garand so whenever there's a question relative to "born on" date for an M1 carbine any and all barrel info can be very useful. Also, if you contribute your M1 carbine serial # to a database please consider including the barrel info as well.

[Bruce McAskill]

On 03-03-43 The Saginaw plant requested 200 sight bases and leafs from the Grand Rapids plant. It might be the pictures but something about the sight just doesn't quite look right and I can't put my finger on it.

[usgicollector]

The rifle is exactly as received it from the CMP except for the push safety which I changed. I did nothing to the rear sight.
Dave

[Bruce McAskill]

Dave I'm not saying you did anything to it but someone somewhere along the line did. The S'G' or IP marked rear sights sent to S.G. would have been used long before your carbine was made. But the rear sight could very well have been changed later because of damage to the original. It does make your carbine look real nice for sure.