More pictures.

 

Pretty. I'll take that pest off yer hands! ;-P

 

Typical post war rebuild. Would need pics of internals to see how much is Rock-Ola. Has a Type 2 milled Inland rear sight and what appears to be a large wheel Inland cartouche on stock.

 

I’ll get more pictures but it has a R on the bolt, ejector, trigger, stamped trigger housing with an R and other parts are stamped with an R.

 

Beautiful little carbine, typical of a first upgrade which happened at the tail end of WW2, on through the remainder of the '40's. Buy new springs, shoot the crap out of it. M1 Carbine is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes still on.

 

I don't know much, and I'm certainly no expert. Here is what I notice:

• The trigger housing is stamped like my Standard Products...no problem, just an observation.
• The rear sight is the nicer machined type...I have no idea if it's period-correct or original.
• The top hand guard appears to be a refinished older single-rivet design. No harm or foul there. I preferred the double-rivets, but it's still there

 

Bores are usually nice in all carbines since there was never corrosive .30 carbine ammo used. Hope it shoots well!

Also, you can get the U.S. M1 Carbines, Wartime Production book by Craig Riesch and have a complete listing of every part of your carbine as originally produced. I stripped down a Winchester I got that was claimed to be all original and correct and every single part was as it should be except a trigger spring that had a couple more windings than it should have had. It's a great book to read through about the history of the production of M1 Carbines.

 

Stamped trigger housings were made by Winchester. Not all of the manufacturers had the same machine equipment, and that was a work around that ended up working out pretty well. The rear sight is original military, its from the first arsenal upgrade. Later ones were stamped sights, but they both did the same thing. When it comes to M1 Carbines, yours is about as “original” as they get. Most “original” M1 Carbines are force matched. Yours is a very nice carbine, you’ll enjoy it much.

 

Stamped trigger housings were made by Winchester. {snip}

Hmm, stamped trigger guards were designed by IBM and Underwood was instrumental in getting them into production. They were used late wartime production by IBM, Underwood, Quality Hardware, and Standard Projects.

Winchester didn't use stamped trigger housings.

No Rock-Ola carbine left production with adjustable rear sites or bayonet lug barrel bands. Only very late production (serial number above 6,000,000) were produced with round bolts.

I agree, though, you have a very nice post war upgraded USGI M1 carbine.

 

It's a typical post-WW2 rebuild, and like the rest it is a mishmash of various makers' parts and eras. You're lucky that both the barrel and receiver are still Rock-Ola.

 

And it's Probably the original barrel. A SN date lookup compared with the date on the barrel can confirm that.

 

I’ll definitely post pictures of the small parts and see what y’all think!

 

The trigger housing with cross bolt safety is early production.
Later model has safety lever.
Enjoy that thing.


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Its a very nice example of a late model Rockola that’s been rebuilt—very nice Carbine!

 

As mentioned already, standard postwar rebuild. Late production Rock-ola could have used the Type IV stamped trigger group. Personally, I wouldn't worry about the parts break down. If it went through the rebuild program (I assume it did with the mix of parts) they would have used what was on hand.

Any import marks? If that were my Carbine if the barrel gauges decent (under a "2" on a CMP barrel gauge is normal, anything lower icing on the cake) I would change the springs and shoot it.

 

I'm Not calling out this particular post, but many posts on this thread and many others where "the type IV trigger group housing" or the "Garand Type VIIC Left handed scope mount" are ABSOLUTELY meaningless to the OPs. Only experienced collectors with the SAME book can make any sense of such posts. I'm not even sure what the various "types" are unless I dig out the books on the item in question and review them. Milled vs Stamped or grooved vs checkered is usually the limit of my instant recall on these small parts.

The vast majority of M1 Carbines were depot serviced, some more extensively than others. Even ones in excellent condition got some "mandatory updates (bayo lug, safey switch) etc, but a small percentage didn't. That's what makes it fun.

The OP has a nice one.

 

There is no import marks and the CMP has no records for it. Everything I’ve seen besides the stock and rear sight has the letter R on it!

 

Interesting. No import marks "could" mean it was imported before 1968. Could be a "NRA" gun, could be a bring back of some kind. I would change to springs and shoot it 😁

 

Well, hopefully the OP will pay attention to the 'insider' codes given and learn something today. Let's not start talking down to newbies - you have to run to catch the train - it doesn't slow down for you.

 

Thank you. I’m going to do a detail strip and photograph the small parts.
The barrel is mint! Very shiny with nice lands and groves.
When I bought it, it was full of cosmoline.

 

Here are more pictures. Let me know if you need to see anything else.

 

More pictures. Chamber appears to be in the white.

 

The bolt and extractor appear to be Rock-Ola. So is the trigger and housing.

 

The op rod has no markings whatsoever.

 

Here you are.

 

Last month of production. That’s pretty awesome. Thanks for the information.

 

Nice assembly of Rock Ola components. The "LTR" marked hammer is coded for Rock Ola.

Rock Ola operating slides were marked, while several other manufacturers didn't mark theirs. Yours is an early version that would not have been originally used on a late production Rock Ola so it is likely a post war replacement.

 

I paid $900 including tax for it from my previous local gun store.

 

Good bad or otherwise, at least as far as provenance is concerned. I would say run it till it gets hot and enjoy it. It is not the only one out there. But they are great shooters.

 

You stole it! Solid Rockola throughout!

 

Yep, that's a pretty good price these days. Nice carbine.

 

He bought it 8 years ago, that was about the standard price then IIRR. M1 Carbine prices took off about 2019 IIRR and Covid really drove the current price increases.

Not a knock, I'd love to find a nice USGI Carbine at $900 bucks right now, I'd jump on it and I need another Carbine like I need a hole in my head

 

My first Rock- Ola cost me $100. Another GI on the pistol team got his girl friend pregnant, had to raise $$ so got it for cheap back in 73. Had it for many years along with every mfg except IBM. Here’s the first Carbine info book I picked up. Much easier to use than War Baby. Harrison’s book is ok. If one does the math you can about figure what week your carbine was mfg.

 

Carbines are Fun!

 

Beautiful!