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belfire27
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Posted: Apr 01 2020 at 12:45pm |
Is it true the later 1945 Inland barrels went undated? All the lettering is there except the third line which was the date of manufacture.
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Why Carbines?
Hard Corps Joined: Dec 27 2015 Location: Tennessee Status: Offline Points: 883 |
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Undated Inland barrels showed up sporadically throughout their whole production.
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Charles
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Same with Saginaw. I have an S'G' 3549*** complete, down to the last freckle but no barrel date. Disappointing.
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Charles
Co B 1st Batl.115 Inf. Reg. 29th. Divi. 4.2 Heavy Mortar Co Retired Life member NRA |
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belfire27
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The reason I'm asking is I have an heirloom receiver that was mfg'd in late 1945 and is hand stamped but never used. All I can figure is it walked off the assembly line. Nobody in my family worked for any of the goverment contractors so it's a mystery, and the people who would know are long gone. I have an opportunity to get an undated barrel and put this back together but i want to do it right. After 75 years its going to be put to use. People who know vastly more than me say put the undated barrel on. I'm wondering if, as they got close to the end of production in 45, it's true that undated barrels were used more frequently at Inland.
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If you're undated barrel is good then by all means use that. Just for curiosities' sake, how far back from the muzzle is the proof P? The first one if there's multiple proofs.
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belfire27
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It's under the bayonet lug
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kro1970
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If it's under the bayonet lug that barrel would have been used on an earlier Inland. The undated Inland barrels I have actually seen have been on early to mid 6 million serial number production Inlands. There is an article though in the CCNL's #371 about an early Inland M1A1 picked up in France during the war that had an undated barrel. CCNL 374 has a very informative article on undated Inland barrels
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