Meine neu Bavarian

[MILSURP Collector]

Traded into an Underwood carbine recently.

Cool stuff:

High wood stock!

All Underwood parts: bolt, opslide and trigger group.

Spent time in Austria too.

Underwood barrel ME is 3 but I'll have to shoot it to see if it's a good shooter.

Black finish was done by the Germans.

Has updated rear sight and safety but original barrel band.

Overall a nice piece of history.
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[Hayata]

Beauty!!!

Congrats! Nice snag!

 

[alleycat]

I really like it

 

[FrogMan]

You will newer guess what I got today Bavarian rural police IBM M1 carbine.
do you by chance know what the LGK number is? I also have one, mine is LGK ST 0171

 

[libertysteeth]

You will newer guess what I got today Bavarian rural police IBM M1 carbine.
do you by chance know what the LGK number is? I also have one, mine is LGK ST 0171

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It's the code to unlock a secret treasure map to show where all the Bavarian gold was hidden. Now it's all mine.

 

[Mister Heavyhand]

Sehr schon mein freund

 

[Ken Ford]

Why is the Bavarian Rural Police in English?

 

[MILSURP Collector]

Why is the Bavarian Rural Police in English?

Because the US Army marked them prior to issuing them.

Lots of great info on these here: http://www.bavarianm1carbines.com/

 

[MILSURP Collector]

You will newer guess what I got today Bavarian rural police IBM M1 carbine.
do you by chance know what the LGK number is? I also have one, mine is LGK ST 0171

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http://www.bavarianm1carbines.com/Gendarmerie.html

The U.S. M1 Carbines: Arming the Gendarmerie
The headquarters for the Gendarmerie was located in Vienna. They maintained their own armory, separate from those of the Bundespolizei and Bundesheer. When the first 8000 U.S. M1 carbines were turned over to the Gendarmerie by the Bundesheer in 1955/56, they were transferred to the Gendarmerie armory in Vienna. When the decision was made as to how many carbines would be issued to the Gendarmerie of a particular Austrian Land (State), the armorers in Vienna stamped the letters of the Land Gendarmerie Command (LGK) on the bottom of the trigger housing. along with a four digit number. Collectively, these letters and numbers became the Gendarmerie inventory number for each carbine (ie. LGK B for the Landes Gendarmerie Kommando of Burgenland).

 

[10thmountain]

Super nice!