U.S. M1 Carbine Saginaw Serial Number: 3,365,5xx BAVARIA RURAL POLICE

Background On sale on an online auction, the seller represented the owner. No background information. Barrel Group Barrel type 2B Saginaw/General Motors Front Sight type 1   Barrel Band/Swivel type 2 AI (Inland) Gas Piston Nut     Barrel Skirt     Slide type 1 E, on bottom Operating slide stop type 2   Slide has last 4 digits of receiver serial number. Stock Group Stock type 2 LB under handgrip Handguard type 1 not marked Buttplate   smooth Digits 1150 imprinted inside barrel well of stock. Slingwell has last 4 digits of receiver serial number. No mfg mark in slingwell. Initial LB in script on bottom of handgrip (wartime replacement stock). Buttplate is smooth, not U.S. G.I.. Receiver Group Receiver type 2 Saginaw SG Rear Sight type 1 unmarked (several mfg did not mark) Operating Spring Tunnel Housing part of receiver   Recoil Plate     "Bavaria Rural Police" milled in top of receiver along left side by bolt. Left side of receiver is scrawled engraved by hand "Century Arms Inc. St Albans, VT". Forward of the bolt over the U.S. M1 Carbine markings there is a V notch rear site. Bavarian police added this on some M1 carbines as officers were used to the V sight on German rifles. Bolt Group Bolt type 2 AT (Inland) Ejector     Extractor     Extractor Plunger     Firing Pin     Bolt does not have the last 4 digits of the receiver serial number etched on top, contrary to other Bavarian marked carbines. Trigger Group Trigger Housing type 2 Rock-Ola Trigger     Sear     Hammer type 3   Trigger Spring     Trigger Housing Pin type 2    Safety type 2   Magazine Catch type 2A   Magazine Catch Plunger     Rear T of trigger housing has last 4 digits of receiver serial number. Additional Information The stock is non-standard G.I., yet it's listed as a replacement stock used during the war. The numbers on it bear witness that the stock was received by the Bavarians with the rest of the rifle. The exception being the bolt, which has no marks. The 4 digits in the barrel well of the stock likely indicate the stock was removed from another Bavarian rifle before being placed on this one. Interesting that someone would black out the milled police marking on the receiver, yet leave obvious the hand scrawled importer mark, righ next to it. Pictures & Information courtesy of: Return to The Armory