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Gary D. Funderburg
06-30-2016, 09:30
I have a customer who is looking for a SA marked M2 walnut stock. Says they were not potbelly stocks. Also wants SA marked walnut hand guard. I have never observed an SA marked walnut carbine stock or hand guard. Has any one ever seen such?
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Gary

Tuna
06-30-2016, 10:36
No, they were all replacement M2 type stocks mostly post war. SA had some stocks made in the first half of 1945. All were for the M2 carbine type.

M1Garandy
06-30-2016, 10:54
Type IV stocks (M2 cut, non-potbelly) marked/made by SA do exist. I've seen two at least and heard of a couple more. Birch Type V (M2 cut, potbelly) marked/made by SA are way more common.

RCS
06-30-2016, 03:36
There is also a late post WW2 SA SPG rebuild stamp sometimes found on carbine stocks, this came after the SA SHM

Tuna
07-01-2016, 04:02
RCS is right. By the time SA got into making stocks the type 4 stock was already outdated. By spring of 1945 all of Inlands production was M2 carbines. The military had all the type 3 stocks they needed. Only Inland and some Winchester carbines had type 4 stocks. Not a lot in the overall picture as the potbelly type 5 was out early in 1945.

RCS
07-01-2016, 03:03
Here is a photo of the post WW2 SA SPG rebuild stamp as found on both M1 carbine and M1 rifle stocks, photo is on
a M1 rifle stock36338

I had some carbine photos but did not save them, any additional carbine photos with the SA SPG rebuild stamp
would be appreciated

Doug Douglass
07-04-2016, 06:05
There is also a late post WW2 SA SPG rebuild stamp sometimes found on carbine stocks, this came after the SA SHM

I have a SA SHM rebuild cartouch from 1946 on a walnut WWII stock.

High Plaines Doug r
07-04-2016, 12:27
I have an SA marked walnut stock that came on a Winchester carbine that my father bought through the NRA/DCM in 1961 or '62. It is a potbelly, carries no other arsenal marks.

Chris W.
07-08-2016, 10:52
I have a SA marked stock and hand guard on a Winchester 576xxxx carbine. This stock looks to have the M2 cuts in the stock and is also marked with BA4 rebuild marks. Fairly sure the stock was added during a rebuild.
Chris