Bavarian Rural Police M1 carbines with the ‘agency’ name removed.
This relates to Inland M1 carbine- serial number 4882099—barrel date 12-43.
A very brief extract from a commentary from Jim Mock the Bavarian Carbine Guru---part of a much longer story.
The Rural Police were the only Bavaria, and German, agency to consistently put the last 4 (or 3) digits of the serial number on the slide, stock slingwell, under the handguard, back of the trigger housing and on the bolt.
Many of the carbines that have had the Bavaria Police agency name removed, vary greatly in the attention to detail. Possibly the result of a mass removal program and a short time frame in which to do it. The Bavarian author who did research on the carbines for an article in Deutsche Waffen Journal found an order to remove the markings and was surprised when I showed him most don't have the markings removed. He didn't want to believe it until I showed him.
The ‘black goop’ is another oddity. So far I've only seen it on the carbines brought back by Century Arms in the 1970's. Amongst those, the quality of the removal varied greatly as did the substances they used to cover the machined area. Some was the goop, some was paint, some were what looked like a cold bluing touch up that was black.
The black 'goop' on the left rail that covered the Bavaria Rural Police agency marking.
The carbine.
David
This relates to Inland M1 carbine- serial number 4882099—barrel date 12-43.
A very brief extract from a commentary from Jim Mock the Bavarian Carbine Guru---part of a much longer story.
The Rural Police were the only Bavaria, and German, agency to consistently put the last 4 (or 3) digits of the serial number on the slide, stock slingwell, under the handguard, back of the trigger housing and on the bolt.
Many of the carbines that have had the Bavaria Police agency name removed, vary greatly in the attention to detail. Possibly the result of a mass removal program and a short time frame in which to do it. The Bavarian author who did research on the carbines for an article in Deutsche Waffen Journal found an order to remove the markings and was surprised when I showed him most don't have the markings removed. He didn't want to believe it until I showed him.
The ‘black goop’ is another oddity. So far I've only seen it on the carbines brought back by Century Arms in the 1970's. Amongst those, the quality of the removal varied greatly as did the substances they used to cover the machined area. Some was the goop, some was paint, some were what looked like a cold bluing touch up that was black.
The black 'goop' on the left rail that covered the Bavaria Rural Police agency marking.
The carbine.
David
