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M-1 Carbine question

ammo guyammo guy Member Posts: 810 ✭✭✭
edited July 2014 in Ask the Experts
I have a Winchester M-1 Carbine that has the spring tube type receiver. Anyone know how many of these were made before the switch over to the standard type? Thanks
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not sure of the numbers made.

    I bought this one at an auction not knowing it was a spring tube gun until I got it home.

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  • thorhammerthorhammer Member Posts: 989 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Assigned serial number blocks for Winchesters...1,000,000 to 1,349,999

    in your serial range. Winchester also made more M1's in other serial

    blocks, but total made were 828,059.

    Your Winchester is a Type 1A, 1B or 1C and the changeover to Type II

    receivers happened around serial number 1,086,000 to 1,105,000.

    So Winchester made 86 to 105 thousand spring tube receivers before

    changing over to the drilled spring well Type II receivers.

    A 1A receiver has a slide stop hole completely bored thru with another

    cut out nearby as a lug to hold the slide tube assembly. The 1B

    receiver has only the bored thru hole for the slide stop and a second

    notch cut into the upper slide slot ala Laredo Lefty's M1.

    The Type 1C has a slide stop cut out but not bored all the way thru,

    this eliminated the earlier receivers from the cracking problems.
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