Inland XB 271

Is it real?

The rear sight is unmarked and staked the same way on both sides



Gas cylinder. The rainbow color is from CLP and my suspect picture taking skills.



Barrel Band



AS marking (or is it PI....)

@davet: I think it is a real rear sight but with no markings and such strange pin staking, it is hard to know for sure.

@jackp: Great observations. It is an early Inland receiver. The entire barreled receiver is blued and polished.



An early Inland should have a type 1 band, but this one was presented long after the end of the war.

Nice cherry stock.

Unfortunate to have been reblued of a high polished Colt type blue. Typical of what many gunsmiths do to sporter rifles. The trigger housing is of red color due to being a cast piece. When Ruger came out with the M77 their recievers were of investment casting and they struggled a few years with that problem. My early M77 reciever was reddish color and since it never shot well, rebarreled with a douglas barrel. My friend in Oregon who is into the Winchester rifles reblued my M77 and just blued over the reciever without touching or polishing. Barrel was spun with his secrect grit and the special blue to duplicate the Winchester color is secrecative to very few in that business. To this day it is hard to detect any reddish color in the reciever. I have a Win 1890 that was in a fire and draw filed and reblued. When I get picture educated would like to post picture showing this barrel. If carbine was mine, I would repolish to courser grit and reblue or parkerized. Sure like the stock also. Jim K.

The trigger housing is an M2 type VI, unless my lousy computer let me down again.

Yep, it did let me down, not a VI.

@Charles-The stock is marked OI in the slingwell. I see wavy and straight grains. Walnut can have wavy or curly grains. Have an old wood id book and it looks like walnut to me.

Edit: Added more pictures of the stock. Will reserve judgement on the type of wood until they are reviewed by the experts and a consensus is reached.

















Note the saw marks still in the wood under the buttplate




Good call on the trigger housing as it is thought to be cast. There is no hammer spring recess. Side note: It is a giant pain to get it back together without the recess. It is unmarked except for an A on both sides of the rear section of the upper trigger guard.

The ring is marked M1

No doubt in my mind this Inland presentation carbine (XB271) is the way it was put together long after production ceased. The parts were scrounged up where ever they could find them. The trigger housing is a remanent  of some experimental modifications. The only "X" presentation carbine above 100 for some reason. Maybe 271 was his lucky number or house number or his clock number..........etc

@arthur- trying to find more information other than what is known, but no luck so far. Will keep trying.

Wonder what the A marked on the either side of the housing signify?

Does not look like receiver and ring are roll stamped.



Receiver



Trigger