M1A1 Carbine Help Please

[Johnny Peppers]

It was to keep production flowing, number one goal of the contracting agents working for the Defense Department.

That is correct, and when directed by Ordnance there was an orderly flow of parts.

[busterz111]

Only use the Expert opinions as a Guideline...Not Gospel. A friend of mine Restores Cars and he explained production Logic to me...They use up the parts until the entire batch was gone...in this case of the Carbine if they had 300 stocks in the Pile they didn't trash them because the "appropriate" 1st run Rifle assembly was out of stock (no pun)..They just grabbed the next item up and Built a Rifle...As long as it fired a Bullet it was Passed.

[Johnny Peppers]

A change in a part didn't mean that all the other parts were no longer usable. When Ordnance specified a change to a phosphate finish on the Model 1911A1 pistols in 1943 Remington Rand had a large stock of frames already Du-Lite blued, and was allowed to use up that inventory before switching to phosphate.

[Spagg199th]

so you have a second run gun in a first run stock? who knows- there are purists that say late 43 went to second run and should have low wood stock- could have been mated at arsenal, truth is no one really can say one way or the other, as long as stock is real and carbine is first or second run sequence, it COULD be original, but the purists will say no

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