Springfield Armory made or contracted replacement stocks.

There was something about a different color USGI M1a1 stock and a question of who supplied the blanks to Overton. I have not observed one of these to make comment.

It is unclear to me if yours is USGI, Foreign, or commercial made.

Handgrips on stocks used by Inland were either made by Overton or Richardson. Yours appears to be OI which is Overton.

Someone modified the stock for a selector switch. Does not appear to be oxidized so think newer than Korea era.  Might not be a bad idea to rub some raw linseed or stock oil in the cut parts to preserve. In a pinch, for the inside of the stock, I would not be opposed to vegetable oil.

In your serial range, I would expect the rear left receiver detail to be squared. This would mean the receiver was made at Grand Rapids by Saginaw as opposed to IP. 

The Blue Sky shows the barrel was in Korea, think of it as a tattoo where it served. 

You say the trigger is Inland, do you mean trigger housing?

Slide: Both Inland and Winchester produced the late slides with the numbers. You need to look inside the box for letters.

Are there letters next to the numbers or additional numbers?

Welcome to the forums and thank you for your service.

edit to add, the splinter of missing wood is not big enough to remove the whole OI

71618 (missing 43?)

96567-  anything else?

Centered all the way to the right it looks like an S?

The second line should be an assigned vendor code from the postwar period possibly up till the '70s

I do not think this has ever been reported. I will have to do some digging.

If possible try taking a picture outside as the camera will have more light to work with.

If you are downsizing pictures to upload I would appreciate a full-size picture which you can email me at Dan@UScarbineCal30.com

trigger housing is an earlier Inland. All parts except some small parts such as springs and plungers are marked. To quote a recent post "Like opening a box of cracker jacks!"

m1a1fan, not sure about all of the nomenclature on this platform yet what is the stock bridge? There seems to be a lot of circumstantial evidence of m2 conversion at some point (US, foreign or private) 

Someone modified that for full auto in their garage or basement. What you already know as a Bubba job being that you're into Garands. I wouldn't oil those bubba'd places. I'd have it repaired if mine.

For most here the SA barrel doesn't have the collector value in the first place. It's good that the correct barrel wasn't Blue Sky'd, but that Carbine action has possibly seen some action having been rebarreled and still shot out.

A normal Carbine Blue Sky with SA barrel is not high on the value side COMPARED to original and no import stamp.

The stock with it's issues will cost to have repaired. Wood repairs and leather repair

There are other ways to mostly determine if the stock forearm is legitimate M1A1, SA post war or other. Is the left side notched for the leather cheek piece? If so, is it gradual or hard lines to the dip down? Is there an S A stamped on the top rail where the hand guard meets the top of the stock? Those are the first two things to check.

In this area, the 800 area for the stock only would be a decent sale (with real wood). The wood can be repaired. It's a common modification. Verifying the forearm can be done to assure it's real. Take it off the stock and look for an extra hole where one shouldn't be (very unlikely with a low wood stock like that). When a normal stock is cut to M1A1 it leaves a hole where the recoil screw goes in regular stocks. Look for a small stamp in the barrel channel around where the barrel band sits. They sometimes look like a single letter. Shoot a closeup of the milling in the slide channel. Shoot a clearer pic of where the OI should be stamped sideways from that one you took. The camera can show what you didn't see at first.

EDIT: If i was just modded having an OI and without leather, still around 8. without an OI present the stock price is what? It's just speculation about the forearm and maybe 6. The Carbine action having it's value in addition.

Maybe someone can see the OI?

I like the nose channel characters. They look properly worn like I would hope to see. I don't see any part of the OI but my monitor isn't so great. I also look for different milling in the bottm of the slide channel. I'll post my pics later and maybe I'm not on the right foot depending on them. Plus diff densities of wood might respond differently.

Yesterday I saw an M1A1 forearm piece fashioned from a standard M1 stock. Interesting timing I know but it belongs to a friend who was curious what it was. Also it wasn't a high wood. Guess they needed one but didn't want to burn a high wood. It also didn't have the side relief area for the leather cheek piece. Shoulda got a pic of the extra hole, but if you see one you shouldn't be confused. It's dead center where the recoil plate screw goes through. M1A1 stocks shouldn't have a centered hole under the recoil.

Here's one of odd wood structure compared with the normal Walnut. Both are authentic.

Afraid there's little help for this one.

Definitely fake.

Kidding. Right between those two holes would be a 3rd if it was a standard stock cut down.

EDIT: Looks like you have the long wood type grip screw too. Seems I read that rebuilds got replaced with a short one like a butt plate screw. Think I remember that later ones were shorter by design? Someone will probably chime in for correction as needed.

MWO ORD B28-W4 20 March 1944 was to discard the 2 3/32 screw and replace with a new 2 3/4 screw.

This was to allow a commercial screw and prevent splitting of the grip.

It is in CCNL 379 and 384

the MWO was canceled 8 Nov 1945

The 1944 MWO superseded the Feild Service Work Order FSMWO B28-W2 4-Nov 1943

We do not have a copy of this. If anyone has one we sure would appreciate being able to check it out!