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Jabberwalky 
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 Topic: M1 with no recoil platePosted: Jul 25 2025 at 4:43pm |
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I have a sportier M1 with no markings. It is very well made but lacks a recoil plate and doesn’t have an integrated section where one would be.
I am trying to identify the maker.
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Snippity4
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Posted: Jul 25 2025 at 7:01pm |
A couple of pictures would help. Closeup of the receiver area and whole rifle. There should be some kind of markings somewhere on it unless someone removed all of them.
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Posted: Jul 25 2025 at 7:11pm |
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Is there a tab that comes off the back of the receiver that a screw goes through to attach to the stock?  |
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Smokpole
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Posted: Jul 25 2025 at 7:21pm |
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I just read something on that type of receiver lately but I can't remember where. They were said to be more accurate, but that they had a pronounced tendency to crack the stocks at the screw hole.
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Posted: Jul 26 2025 at 7:23am |
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Pretty sure there was a receiver like this in the Ruth collection with some details. I remember seeing some information on it elsewhere also but don’t recall where.
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Posted: Jul 26 2025 at 8:59am |
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I did not want to get off topic until the OP replied the receiver shown is from the commercial pages We know nothing about these receivers or its manufacturer, so looking for input should anyone have information. @Smokpole, maybe you were reading about (from memory) Standard Products ordnance inspector or worker that obtained permission to experiment on a carbine where he welded a recoil plate to the receiver to increase accuracy? It may have had something to do with cracking? Separately, the stocks were prone to cracking in the recoil plate area. The solution was to increase the gap around the plate and beef up where the recoil plate sits to prevent cracking
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Posted: Jul 26 2025 at 3:18pm |
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I wonder if sleeving the screw like on Mauser military rifles would have solved the cracking problem. I've not seen this type receiver before, but wouldn't mind playing with it.
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Posted: Jul 26 2025 at 4:53pm |
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It would disrupt the take-down a bit but we don’t have to do that very often. If I had one or were to acquire one, I’d be looking for one of those polymer stocks that do show up now and then.
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Posted: Jul 26 2025 at 8:35pm |
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No, Dan. That wasn't it. I saw it in some magazine that I was browsing thru recently, It was at our local library. I just don't remember which magazine.
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Posted: Jul 27 2025 at 7:23am |
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Plainfield experimented with it. See section IV of the Plainfield pages. I’ll add a picture.
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Posted: Jul 27 2025 at 9:26pm |
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Floyd! You hit it. It was one of those firearms rags that has all kinds of misc. articles. It was a poorly written article on the development and restoration of the M1 Carbine, but there was a picture of one such receiver.
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