M! carbine help?

[robert]

I just bought an M1 carbine Standard Products. It has high wood but is also stamped OGEK in a box. That is a rework stamp but it is high wood. Would they have reworked it and then left it high wood? Also no Bayo lug and flat bolt. Rear sight is the roller coaster type instead of flip but that is OK on a Standard Products above 2,1XX,XXX, right? and maybe not a rework thing?

The gun is from a vet but not sure what war. Not an import and is dusty and looks like it was never cleaned since the gun came home.

[Johnny Peppers]

The boxed O.G.E.K. is for Elmer Keith, so makes it popular with collectors. Some of the late Standard Products carbines did have the adjustable rear sight. Is yours the milled or stamped variety?

It could be that the carbine came through and only received an inspection, in which case it would have been marked.

[robert]

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Thanks!
The sight is the milled type.
Elmer Kieth started in 48 or 49 and is always in a box. if not in a box its another guy.But would it be unusual for a gun to go through Ogden arsenal and not have any revisions done?
tanks again.
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[Johnny Peppers]

To the best of my memory Elmer went to work at Ogden Arsenal in 1942 or 43, and worked until 1945. The massive Carbine rebuilds and modifications didn't start until after WWII. I believe his time at Ogden is mentioned in one of his books.

It is fairly common to find WWII weapons with an ordnance bomb, RIA, and FK on them that are still original. Frank Krack was the assistant foreman of the small arms inspection division at Rock Island Arsenal during the war years, and it appears that if anything went through Rock Island it got marked whether anything was done or not.

[robert]

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thanks Johnny,
I've had a couple of 45s with Frank Krack inspection markings, one of them an X number gun.
I may be wrong about when Elmer was in the Utah arsenal.
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