it's always fun over on the M1Carbine forum, watching the geezers going back and forth about what is authentic and what is not. smile I got this one from my brother in law, who brought it back from someplace over seas back in the late sixties. Nuff said, but he swears it was like this when he acquired it in where ever that place was. US Government issued it to whomever, in that condition and with those parts.


Sam......