my underwood carbine

[glock21]

I Have An Underwood Carbine That Was Purchased In The 6os From The CMP. It Has A Barrel Date Of 1-43 With The Ord Bomb On The Barrel And Underwood Stamped Across The Barrel. The Receiver Is Also Underwood As Well. The Other Parts Are As Follows:

Slide Un Quality Hardware

Bolt Flat Un Quality Hardware

Trigger Group
Stamped Ibm Complete I Believe, Flip Safety With Horseshoe
Stamped On The Lever. And I Believe Ia On The Mag
Release Button.

Recoil Plate National Postal Meter

Rear Sight Milled Adjustable H Inside A Shield Mark On It

Front Sight Underwood U Marked

Barrel Band Type Iii E-mq On Barrel Band And U-nq Marked
On The Lug

Stock Winchester Low Wood Small W In Sling Well
Has P On Pistol Grip Crossed Cannons On The
Right Side Of The Butt And Aam On The Left Side
Of The Stock, Below The Receiver. Does Not Have
I Cut Out For The Oiler

Oiler Is

Handguard Sg

Best Part... It Survived Wwii And The Birmingham Riots
Without Rusting Or Pitting, And Has A Clean
And Bright Bore.

I Know It Went Through The Agusta Arsenal At Some Point, I Was Wondering If I Should Keep It As Is Or Should I Try To Replace The Non Underwood Parts? Its A Light And Very Acurate Weapon And It Can Eat Up The 10 And 9 Ring On A B27 Target, At 100 Yrds, With Ease.

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[AZCarbineFan]

Why break up a good thing?

[Tired Retired]

Glock, If that is a DCM carbine from the 60's and you have the orginal paperwork proving that it came from DCM, you will greatly devalue that weapon by trying to make it correct. I would recommend that you get a RG from CMP and change that back to "all correct" if you want one like that. Also, you will find buying the real (not faked repro) parts to make "all correct" may cost more than the purchase price of a carbine....

As far as accuracy, if you can shoot that one carbine that accurate, you should not mess with anything... most people spent lots of cash on stocks, barrel bands and recoil plates in a vain attempt to make a carbine that accurate. Again, a vote to leave as is.

Just my two cents...

[phil441]

Leave it the heck alone!
You got a good 'un, no need to mess with perfection.

Enjoy the heck outa it and let the restorers do their own thing.
You've got one that does what it was meant to do.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

As stated above - Please leave it as it is.

It will survive all of us, and wouldn't you want it to remain intact?

[AZCarbineFan]

Very True, the Carbines built during WW2 are nearly 70 and going strong, but may end up under the chop saw if we don't pay attention to who we elect to office. These elected types can't fight the urge to protect us from ourselves.

[glock21]

The sn on my underwood is 13642xx and all the metal parts have that lovely gray/green patina. Gotta love how parkerizing reacts with cosmoline ;-) I shoot it about as much as I do my 1971 colt sp-1, ammo ain't cheap anymore. It just sits next to my Winchester m-1 garand. As one member mentioned, if only these old soldiers could talk...