My M1 Carbines.

[jond41403]

Leaf backward ?

26 coil hammer spring ?

your right,I would have never caught that,the flip sight is turned around from how I've usually seen them

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Hey Jim,long time no see lol.i hope you are doing well. I bet it is a play on the light in the picture. I only noticed it because I noticed his serial number was fairly close to mine but it was only missing one digit it appeared.btw,I have been thoroughly enjoying the SEY 30 rnders

They have worked the best for me over the years. Pleased they are doing the same for you.

[johniv]

Beautiful carbines sir. Thanks for sharing.
John

[theholeinthedonut]

Forgive my ignorance,but shouldn't your Winchester have one more number in the serial?I also have a somewhat early Winchester (type 1 receiver,spring tube) and my serial is 1176194. I thought Winchester serials started at 1 million besides the 6-10 they were first assigned

Maybe a bad angle for the photo missing the last digit on the right???

It's indeed due to the angle the photograph was taken. There is another digit that is hidden.

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Forgive my ignorance,but shouldn't your Winchester have one more number in the serial?I also have a somewhat early Winchester (type 1 receiver,spring tube) and my serial is 1176194. I thought Winchester serials started at 1 million besides the 6-10 they were first assigned

Leaf backward ?

26 coil hammer spring ?

My bad, I missed that for quite a few years. I will change it the next time I will take the Winchester out of the gun vault.

[theholeinthedonut]

An Underwood M1 Carbine, the barrel is dated 11-44.

[jond41403]

Great looking carbines sir!

[theholeinthedonut]

An all matching original parts, early, Rock-Ola Carbine.

[theholeinthedonut]

The better part of my "War Baby" collection.

[browningautorifle]

Nice, a little of everything in there.

[theholeinthedonut]

It took years of fruitless search before I finally found an M1A1 Carbine. Unfortunately it was a demilled one!!! But as the price was very good I couldn't resist, alltough I had sworn myself never to buy a demilled gun.

My plan was to take the stock and put it on another, still functional, Inland carbine I have, but as this one seems to be an original "first production run" M1A1 I just left it as it is. But If I would find a correct barrel and bolt I might replace them.

It makes your heart bleed to see that such a fine and hard to find weapon was castrated just because someone had to have an "original" .....because in the end it isn't original anymore, it had it's soul ripped out! But as I said, I couldn't pass on.