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    Yes, stock is pretty dry. Quite a ding in the spring tube housing too.
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    The picture makes the ding look worse than it is. It doesn't interfere. I have a mix of 50/50 linseed oilicon and Mineral Spirits I think I will freshen it up with.

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    I am really tickled. Apparently Springfield Armory only made these stocks between 1949 and 1954. It looks like it is NOS, with only the first coat of linseed oilicon on it, I doubt if the stock had been on any other Carbine before this one. The barrel is original (there is a second barrel shadow from the type I band, underneath), but less than 1 ME, and crisp, bright rifling. It has all the upgrades that they would have put on for Korea or Vietnam. All it is lacking is a round bolt.

    Great, clean, solid carbine. I'll add my stock pouch and leather handled M4 Bayonet. It will be as good of a little war-fighter as it was back in the day..Cant wait to shoot it. I think I may use it as my Home Defense Carbine.
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    I'm puzzled. Bolt lug marked "36S", no other markings.


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    Per someone on CMPicon, a late Standard Products bolt. I figured it was some kind of a late bolt, because of cam angle and ejector.

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    Looking at the bottom photo of the receiver, you clearly see the line where sandblasting stopped and just finish below that. I think Inland was the only company doing that. Truth be known, I'd take this gun over the other in a heartbeat. That stock is beautiful. It is a much more honest carbine. A great example of a post rebuild gun with the upgraded parts that make it a better weapon. The round bolts were being used for M2 and the flat bolt was probably done at the rebuild. The type 3 band will make your carbine shoot better and you can put that bayonet on it and use that to get someone's attention. My best shooter is the NPM rebuilt by Underwood. It has an original IBM Corp barrel with some but not a lot of wear. A mirror image you that one except it has an I cut Inland stock. It can hold the 10 ring on an SR-1 at 100 yards.
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    Thanks, Dave I agree. This stock was the 'freshest" stock I have ever seen!. Not sanded (after being soaked in linseed oilicon), and other than the minor crack on the nose, it is gorgeous. I hit it with a little coat of 50/50 LSO/Mineral Spirits and freshened it up. I'll bet this one is a shooter. The barreled receiver hangs perfectly in the stock, with a 1/8" gap between the channel and the barrel.

    Years ago (around 1999-2000) I got my hands on a white bag carbine, still in its VCI pouch. It had a black manganese phosphate finish. It was as gorgeous as the day it was re-issued (its stock was "fresh" like this one). I would put this carbine right up there with that one. A year later I was forced out a disability retirement, and I had to let it go (I had three kids in college, and my wife was laid off from her union meat cutter job three weeks later Very tough time). That was a big regret for me. This one looks like it came right out of an arms room.

    I wonder if it is DCM (unlikely with all the upgrades), or maybe a CMPicon "Service Grade."
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    Brought my new War Baby home. Very happy!

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    Don't know when that was done, but if you look at the picture of the top of the front area of the stock, you can make out the SA stamping on the left side just behind the barrel band cut.
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    Yep, someone on CMPicon pointed that out. Apparently, SA made these stocks 1949 to 1954. It was probably put put on this carbine in its final rework. There are no import stamps, and the family thought this one (maybe came from CMP), was acquired much later than the other three the deceased had, which I was told were old NRA/DCM guns from the 1960s.
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