Inland #158829

[6kidsdad]

Nice Inland, glad you were able to keep it. I have Inland # 156,249, an original rifle. My barrel date is 1-43. Shows how they were not assembled in numerical order.

[Tuna]

On early Inlands you cannot go by the barrel dates. Barrel production was ahead of receiver production by up to 3 or more months but mostly about 3 months ahead. So there were early dates and later dates mixed in the parts bins when the carbines was assembled. It was not till later in 1943 that receiver and barrels were at the same level of production. Both of the carbines were made about January 1943.