Gunbroker Auction

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

No reserve, if someone is worried about the seller, bid on just what the parts would total. But I think it is well worth the current $905 amount and more. Mixed shooters sell for that or more.

Picture 43 blown up looks like it may have cracks from the housing to the escutcheon. Can't tell if just one side is cracked, or if it chipped out and was replaced. Shouldn't be a deal breaker.

[INLAND44]

Not even a decent attempt. Its a 'put-together'. The farther we go in time past the real carbines, the better these look to many. I guess we have arrived at the point where the fakes merge with the real ones in a figurative sense. So what is 'real' exactly? To me, it is any carbine in the same configuration it was in when last in government custody. This of course includes rebuilds and updated ones. Real untouched 5,000,000 Inlands are kind of rare. I have a crummy picture of one that was dropped to resistance during the war.

[DaveHH]

These later Inlands and Winchesters are a good source for original examples because the part swappers only get excited when they see type 1 bands. The flip sight makes them shake all over and start yelling fake. They never met a carbine that they wouldn't rip to shreds for parts. I think the X is some bored PFC on guard duty messing around with his P38 on a piece of government wood. Sanded wood is just what happens when an ignorant civilian gets a military weapon. When I got my White Sack Garand in 1983 that was the first thing I did.

I should say that I have a box stock correct 5.4 Inland and prefer these Type 2 and Type 2 sight carbines. The part swappers just walk away thinking they are rebuilds.