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 Yard Sale M1A1 Carbine Stock Find
1srelluc  [Team Member]
4/15/2012 1:28:18 PM
I asked a guy at a yard sale yesterday if he had any guns for sale but the told me none he was getting rid of. Then he asked if I had a M1 Carbine. I told him I had a old IBM and he said he had something I might want, went into his garage and brought out a Overton M1A1 folding stock/HG. He said he'd take $40.00 for it. Of course I bought it.

I think it is one of the stocks Overton made from "new old-stock" WW-2 era parts for a military contract in 1970. It has the proper Overton markings for a second type stock but it has a machine cut on the inside of the left reciever wall of the stock for a M2 Carbine. This stock had been well used but it was almost a perfect match for my rather worn (finish wise) IBM.

It was almost like getting a new weapon to mess with.

mad_mardigan  [Team Member]
4/15/2012 2:28:54 PM
Nice score
LivingNightmare  [Team Member]
4/15/2012 5:13:46 PM
Really nice score, I ask for guns at every garage sale i see and usually get a look.
I think i live in the wrong state
BallisticTip  [Team Member]
4/15/2012 5:17:01 PM
Nice find.
madcratebuilder  [Member]
4/16/2012 9:20:43 AM
Excellent score. I swap mine back and forth. M1 Carbine, the original AR.


SteelonSteel  [Team Member]
4/16/2012 4:40:46 PM
Very nice score.

I used to say I never got deals like that. .....until last year when i got an extremely nice colt python for a price too low to print. I sold a couple pistols at breakeven prices but much lower than current value to help my karma.
22mike  [Member]
4/17/2012 9:09:12 PM
Great deal !!!