Military Rifle Stock - Cartouche R1A LB?

pie4me

May 03, 2011 10:59

can't figure out what stock this is? ain't a M1A or M14 since the cavity near the butt would not be there..I'm thinking it might be British Enfield from the 1940's? maybe a SAKO?.can you help me identify it?

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  1KYDSTR

  May 03, 2011 11:05

  M-1 carbine...forend barrel band retainer is a dead give away. Check out the book "War Baby" and you will know all. Missing the top fore wood, and the "R1A" is actually, I think (although I was not aware that Rock Island made stocks?) it's RIA, or Rock Island Arsenal, and then the LB? Likely the inspector at the facility where it was arsenaled.
  
  Figured you'ld be coming around on this one Neal! Neal will/has given you the straight poop on this; really knows his stuff!

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  nmyers

  May 03, 2011 11:22

  It's "RIA/EB" - Rock Island Arsenal/Elmer Bjerke.
  
  RIA didn't make carbine stocks, but they rebuilt many carbines & this stamp is considered a "rebuild stamp", not a "cartouche".
  
  Appears to be a birch stock, based on the uneven ugly way it absorbed stain. Probably off of a Korean import.
  
  Neal

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  11b6r

  May 03, 2011 13:03

  Cavity is for the sling- looks like this: http://world.guns.ru/rifle/autoloading-rifles/usa/m1-carbine-e.html

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  CDMead

  May 04, 2011 06:15

  I see what looks like an "IO" in the well where the oiler would go by the butt.
  
  This would mean, "Inland / Overton" as in Inland was the primary contractor and Overton was the subcontractor that actually made the stock.
  
  Good luck.

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