Buongiorno,
Full disclosure. The recent Winchester carbine acquisition was a reunion, not a new piece. I originally purchased it April 3, 2015 at Amoskeag, and it was my son's shooter. I bought the Winchester stock shortly afterwards, but saved the original. I sold it in January '17 for medical bills. It was part of a Mauser sale/trade last week to bring it home again, and hopefully some day my son will shoot it again.
The carbine was a CMP Italian return, so I had the idea of putting the Parmesan back into the cheese. When I got it, it was wearing this Italian made M2 stock, with the serial number stamped vertically to the butt plate. It felt like someone had used a cheese grater to sand the stock, so I lightly brushed out the rough on the keel with 150 grit sand paper, and a coat of BLO. I bought a 1958 Italian made M4 bayonet and M8A1 scabbard off eBay, and from Numrich the walnut handguard (decent match) and a stock metal "package" (butt plate, screw, spring), and used the recoil plate and screw off the Winchester stock. In addition it wears a 1942 B. H. Robinson magazine pouch, a 1958 MRT sling, and a 1944 E. A. Brown canvas muzzle cover.
Now this very early first block serial number 1007874 dates the rifle to January of 1942. However, the receiver lacks the early tube style plunger for the op-rod spring. So this particular receiver was a re-use of an early serial number that failed inspection, and probably made a few months later when that feature was deleted as unnecessary. Rebuilt several times, the carbine has a T3 bayonet lug (unmarked) a 4-44 Underwood barrel, and an I. R. Co. milled rear peep sight, drawing number 7160060.
It still shot beautifully offhand yesterday at 25 yards. It was just as I had left it, as the interim owner never got a chance to shoot it. This is one of 250,000 carbines we loaned our NATO ally Italy after WW2.
t
Full disclosure. The recent Winchester carbine acquisition was a reunion, not a new piece. I originally purchased it April 3, 2015 at Amoskeag, and it was my son's shooter. I bought the Winchester stock shortly afterwards, but saved the original. I sold it in January '17 for medical bills. It was part of a Mauser sale/trade last week to bring it home again, and hopefully some day my son will shoot it again.
The carbine was a CMP Italian return, so I had the idea of putting the Parmesan back into the cheese. When I got it, it was wearing this Italian made M2 stock, with the serial number stamped vertically to the butt plate. It felt like someone had used a cheese grater to sand the stock, so I lightly brushed out the rough on the keel with 150 grit sand paper, and a coat of BLO. I bought a 1958 Italian made M4 bayonet and M8A1 scabbard off eBay, and from Numrich the walnut handguard (decent match) and a stock metal "package" (butt plate, screw, spring), and used the recoil plate and screw off the Winchester stock. In addition it wears a 1942 B. H. Robinson magazine pouch, a 1958 MRT sling, and a 1944 E. A. Brown canvas muzzle cover.
Now this very early first block serial number 1007874 dates the rifle to January of 1942. However, the receiver lacks the early tube style plunger for the op-rod spring. So this particular receiver was a re-use of an early serial number that failed inspection, and probably made a few months later when that feature was deleted as unnecessary. Rebuilt several times, the carbine has a T3 bayonet lug (unmarked) a 4-44 Underwood barrel, and an I. R. Co. milled rear peep sight, drawing number 7160060.
It still shot beautifully offhand yesterday at 25 yards. It was just as I had left it, as the interim owner never got a chance to shoot it. This is one of 250,000 carbines we loaned our NATO ally Italy after WW2.
t
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still did OK. Target was in the lake. Did a personal best of ringing the 18” gong 23 times in a row after. All new Aguila ammo
