another new addition... 1943 Underwood M1 Carbine

[beerman]

Clean, Solid carbine you got there...now ...go shoot it! I love these things.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

That rifle is so sweet that if you shoot it too much you might get a cavity.

Well done. Pieces like that justify the ridiculous premium American C&R's command over their European counterparts.

[19K]

Beautiful rifle, but as far as I know, Trickster is right. M1 Carbines seems to be one of those collectible rifles where there were a lot of variants and a lot of them became mixmasters during re-arsenaling, just like their big brothers, the Garands. Bet it will be a nice shooter too!

I was recently talking to an old vet about garands and the CMP

He mentioned to me that when he was in the navy and when they cleaned their garands they would strip them. Throw them in a solvent tank scrub all the parts and everyone would grab each necessary part and reassemble.

I'm guessing being a mixmaster is period correct.

[USAF4564]

Great find

[jimsguns]

Very pretty...congrats

[AR22]

Most all Carbines went through a Rebuild. If you find one with all the parts stampings matching, it was likely made that way by someone after it left service.

Your stock. Are you sure it does not have maybe a B after the LW? If so it would be a IBM stock. If just LW it would likely be a post War replacement stock made by Lumb Woodworking.

IBM used alot of stocks from Lumb, but they had a B following the LW..Nice carbine by the way.

[mls343]

That's a nice one. Enjoy!

[Bainter1212]

Nice carbine. Don't forget to shoot it!

[45acpguy]

Most all Carbines went through a Rebuild. If you find one with all the parts stampings matching, it was likely made that way by someone after it left service.

Your stock. Are you sure it does not have maybe a B after the LW? If so it would be a IBM stock. If just LW it would likely be a post War replacement stock made by Lumb Woodworking.

IBM used alot of stocks from Lumb, but they had a B following the LW..Nice carbine by the way.

LW-U. Underwood used Lumb stocks as a supplier as well...

[bsg]

congrats.