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    Posted: May 10 2018 at 9:52am
New member. Have had this NPM since about 1996. Paid $200.00 for it at a gun show in Portland, Oregon. Never really paid a lot of attention to it (other than to shoot it) until recently. If I'm right, this NPM is among the first 20K or so carbines they built: serial #1472250.

I think the receiver and barrel have always been together: Buffalo Arms 6-1943 with a front sight marked with an N right behind the post.

Everything else was a mix of other manufacturers (Excel import stamp on barrel): Round Bolt, Rock-ola slide, HI (Louisville Slugger?) low wood stock, Underwood trigger group housing (type I, I think), front barrel band was one with the bayonet lug.

Will get a couple of photos up on the board when I figure that out.

Have been sourcing NPM parts for it lately. Flat bolt (N12), Slide and Trigger Housing (both N9), SN Trigger, BOB Sear, HI Hammer. Mag catch is labeled HI, may leave that even though most sources say MN or SN. Currently has an aftermarket push-button safety, switched out from a rotary.



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Receiver serial pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/154867772@N05/shares/303731

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Welcome to the forum, It's a wealth of information, suggestions, helping hand and the list goes on. The people are the best! I am not too far from you, just North up in Longview on the West side, Coal Creek.
Are you replacing Underwood Parts? I maybe interested.
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Thanks James. Not sure yet whether or not I'm selling those parts. A younger cousin has me doing WWII reenacting, and at an even last week in Goldendale I decided that I really didn't want to shoot blanks through mine.
 
Am thinking of building a carbine just for that purpose.
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Received this hard to find little guy today, all the way from the Netherlands.
IN Oiler: https://www.flickr.com/photos/154867772@N05/shares/47oP9J
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I've been accumalating parts here and there. Last month I was too late as a decent M2 potbelly stock sold for $10 before I got to that table. Then I ran across an old 1904 Spanish/Swede stock I had and almost done converting it accept Cal 30 Carbine parts. I tend to like old military straight grip stocks over pistol grips. Just something to play with as a shooter. A test bed to swap parts.
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