Early WRA bbl. question

[Jim Nasium]

All,
I have had this rifle in my "aggregation" for a while.* I'm wondering if this bbl. marking is unusual.

jim

P.S. S/N is 10208XX

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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Looks like a nice condition early Winchester barrel to me. Only 20+ thousand into the first block. Spring Tube?

[Jim Nasium]

Yessir!! Springtube.. Pretty cool old gun.....

Only 20K made you say??

I knew I hadn't seen bbl's marked this way before....

I'll see if I can find some more photos...

Thanks Jim

[Jim Nasium]

Here's a couple of old photos...

I'm hoping the stock is correct.

jim

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I didn't say only 20K were made.

I said " Only 20+ thousand into the first block."

I guess I was not clear. I was meaning your carbine is in the first 20,8XX made by Winchester in their first serial number block which was 1,000,000 to 1,349,999. Early Winchester's usually mean spring-tube.

And maybe technically that is wrong too. They had serial numbers 6-10 also.

No matter. A real nice early barrel, dated 12-42 correctly on a rifle built in Jan 1943.

[painter777]

Looks like a very nice example of a I cut WRA stock....

Congrats and thanks for sharing it.
Would love to see more....

Charlie