[tommy630]

i bought a m-1 carbine yesterday. it has an inland barrel dated 9-43 and a saginaw s'g' receiver serial #1840366,
it has the cartouche and proof marks but they are hard to see. Also when I removed the butt plate I noticed that it had 3 holes bored in it. one on each side and one in the middle info please.

[Orlando]

Don't have a clue about the holes in the stock. Can you post pictures. If its a Blue Sky it is a Import. Blue Sky is the name of the company that imported them, sometime in the early 1980's from Korea

[tommy630]

thank you. sorry about no pictures. i know it is one of the irwin petersen original guns that s'g' took over. the butt plate is IP. i paid 450 for it. so not too bad.

[littlejoe872]

I have an IBM carbine that is a Blue Sky import. The only problem I have with them is that they stamped the import mark partially over the barrel stamp.

[tommy630]

funny, mine had lue sky rather than blue sky

[jimb2]

About the stock....if the bottom of the foreend is a bit on the square side and it isn't an M2 stock, then it is most likely a Winchester.