Paid WAAAAAY too much for a carbine today. Rate my deal.

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Okay guys. You've been after me to get an actual factual gin-you-wine gubment carbine that our soldier boys done trained with.
So I did.

A friend stopped by Cabellas in FTW today and found this. When he called me to talk about it I had them hold it for me. I drove the 35 miles out there in rush hour traffic, whipped out the credit card, and brought it home.

You folks know WAY more than I do so take a looksie and rate my score.
I'm a bit paranoid so I wiped out some numbers but you can get a good idea.

It's got one of them fiddly sights with a twisty knob. Sure was nice of them to stake it off center a wee bit.



There's some numbers stamped on the side.



The safety is a mash-the-button type. Look behind the trigger at the awesome collection of dust bunnies on this thing. The gun is full of them.



The muzzle doesn't seem to have too much wear. This is a Remington FMJ stuffed in the end. Marks on the barrel are Inland 8-44. The top of the sight has an N stamped on it.



There's a bunch of stampings on the bottom of the barrel.



The slide is marked too. I don't know what the number sequence is.



This mark is on the front of the gas block and is also found on the side of the hammer.



Side of the trigger housing is marked Inland.



It appears to be a typical pot belly stock. Nothing fancy here. This is the only marking I can find on it other than a 0I stamped in the sling cut and under the 4 rivet hand guard.



Bubba, PLEASE put down the knife! Luckily, it's only one side.




The gun is FULL of closet dust bunnies. There are a couple decades worth of closet fuzzies in this thing. A quick barrel scrub brought out some nasties but the bore looks nice. It needs a little attention with a brush and Hoppes #9 but should clean up nicely.
The bolt is a round M2 piece but I could not find any markings on it. They gave me an IA marked magazine with it too.

So, whaddya think? What have I got? Is this just a big pile of (mostly) Inland parts or what?


Oh yeah, I guess you guys might like to see this pic too.

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