SUPER RARE Saginaw Hammer Marking ?

[browningautorifle]

Seems like I have read of that modification on several other carbines that have been seen over the years. Seems to me that it would be easier to get on target quickly with the front sight that way

Just a user mod like sawing off a bayonet lug.

[Low & Slow]

Just a user mod like sawing off a bayonet lug.

There are special places for these people.

[browningautorifle]

There are special places for these people.

Yes...the funniest part of someone making a statement like "Faster target acquisition" is, they're only shooting paper on a galley range with them.

[jond41403]

Yes that's all I would be shooting it with. Seems like you'd be able to get on target quicker shooting at paper targets. You know like if you had three or four side by side and you were practicing going from one target to the next. I have no idea how it would fare in combat. So that modification would have to almost certainly be a civilian modification correct? Cuz I could be remembering wrong but I could have swore I read years ago how some were observed like that coming into the CMP from other countries. I could be mixing that up with something else but I have seen the front ears shaved off on several others through the years. So does that mean they were all civilian done that way?

[browningautorifle]

So does that mean they were all civilian done that way?

During wartime anything could happen but if I saw one of my guys cutting the protective ears off a sight, he'd be standing tall before the man.

[RCS]

I knew a man that was an engine mechanic in the US Navy, he worked on the river gunboats in Viet Nam. He told me many M1 carbines were brought in their shop to have
four or five inches removed from the barrel, Front sight were not installed after the shortening of the barrel

[browningautorifle]

He told me many M1 carbines were brought in their shop to have
four or five inches removed from the barrel, Front sight were not installed after the shortening of the barrel

I've seen that sort of thing that was recovered from the Cong as well. Some had been cut at the small as well, looked like a sort of M1 Enforcer.

[painter777]

Out of all the Hammers used: It's only the Type IIA Dogleg that has the milled notch for the Sear. All the others have that vertical drop to a step.

To GI Bob, Buddies don't tear your Truck apart

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