A1 stock legitimate?

[tenOC]

Someone posted one for sale in the FOR SALE forum that came from CMP auction which had a different type of butt plate. Maybe it was old ironside but probably wasn't.

Question I remember being asked in the past about the number made:
http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=35271

BQ said 100,000+. From my weakening memory I believe I once asked how many extras were made. Don't quote this, but I thought he said double the number released? Maybe he said 80K? Maybe it never happened. Where's my TV remote?

[car wash chris]

I belong & support a 1911 forum, there we can post pictures right into the conversation. It's nice cause once it's posted it's there for ever { no pictures expiring } unless deleted by the poster. You can also add verbage in between if you want to make refrence to something. It's like a Photo bucket on going slide show. Maybe I just want it all. LOL I'm am greatful for what we have. Chris

Originally Posted by car wash chris

This has been a great thread, Ive tried to save everything shared. Thanks

We need a M1A1 refrence Stickey. Hint Hint

[HB of CJ]

Another excellent subject on this Excellent Forum. HB of CJ (old coot)

[tenOC]

Here is the posting of the "other" butt plate I mentioned being bought from the CMP auction site. It appears the pics have expired, at least I'm not abel to view them for the example. Someone in that thread might have them stored still.

http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread....highlight=M1A1

http://auction.odcmp.com/auctions/detail.asp?id=2249

[car wash chris]

I think it's a 8

http://s989.photobucket.com/user/car...w/Butt%20plate

[m1a1fan]

ten, the number to which you refer sounds about right. Makes sense they would have approx. twice or so the number needed for refurb.

I thought the spare wire stock butt plate I have is a post war replacement. It is marked P237614 and it is in fact, a fake. The real replacement wire stock butt plate is described here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/HOW-...-RECOIL-PLATE/

I used this link as a reference preparing for my first M1A1 purchase:

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=636078

A recent CMP auction sold an M1A1 for 2K. It had a crack running a good distance from where the recoil plate meets the stock. I didn't bid on it since I'm not sure how or if the crack would affect performance. I'm guessing shooting it would leave to further cracking without some kind of repair. Other than the crack, what a great looking M1A1.

http://cmpauction.thecmp.org/detail....arbine-5169184

Another M1A1 sold on GB for $1800 not long ago and it had more of the cracking as I described in a previous post.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=442841187

[tenOC]

Originally Posted by car wash chris

I think it's a 8

http://s989.photobucket.com/user/car...w/Butt%20plate

If so, that's not the one I was thinking of. The one I'm remembering was a very odd casting and prominent. It was very much different from the standard.

It was an embossed butt plate if I remember rightly.

[ChadC]

What's this mean? This is a replacement? Or?

Originally Posted by M1-TA

No spanner wrench notches on pistol grip nut.

[car wash chris]

No your thinking is correct. This one is mine and hard to read.

Originally Posted by tenOC

If so, that's not the one I was thinking of. The one I'm remembering was a very odd casting and prominent. It was very much different from the standard.

It was an embossed butt plate if I remember rightly.

[bubb2]

Originally Posted by tenOC

It looks good enough to convince me to start looking for others to compare it to regarding the butt plate. Butt plates I've seen in person haven't been as crisp as that one. I like the slide channel area and a few other things.

I have in my collection a mint, unused, spare low wood M1A1 stock assembly. I acquired this stock many years ago on a "chance" sale on ebay from a seller in Italy. The "chance" I took is I knew if the seller never sent the stock to me there was nothing I could do about it. Back in those days there was no "ebay protection" of any kind. The amazing thing about this stock is that it came "in the wrapper" along with Ordinance DWG. & PC. MK. and Item Code numbers on the Inland wrapper. This "Stock Folding Assembly Gun, U.S. Carbine Cal 30 M1A1" has a butt plate casting clearer than the current listing on ebay. The only difference is the number after the wheel, this stocks number after the wheel is "4". Interestingly a 12-42 dated M1A1 I have has an almost unreadable cast number except for the number after the wheel, that number is "12".

http://s1052.photobucket.com/user/bu.../M1A1%20Rivets
I also think this is the "different"butt plate that is being referred to.
http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/...ps78517575.jpg