Quality Hardware question for the experts

[swamprat]

Quality Hardware serial number 164xxXX is Buffalo Arms BBL correct for this ser. number range?
01-P is marked on rear of 15 rd magazine

[Rob W.]

Quality used some BA barrels. Is it dated? Mag is probably OI-B for IBM.

[swamprat]

bbl was dated 2/43 IIRC.

[Tuna]

Does it have a type 3 barrel band with the lug on it and an adjustable rear sight? If so then your carbine went through a rebuild like most of them did. Your serial number dates to about September 1943 at the latest. That is when Quality Hardware started using Buffalo Arms barrels. A date of 2-43 is way to early for the serial number.

[jimb]

I suspect the barrel date is 12/43 not 2/43.

[swamprat]

It could well be a 12/43, markings were very light. It was being offered as an "as issued" with all early features. In the pics that I was sent it looked pretty good, but in person it was obvious that it had been through a rebuild and the bayo lug (shadow on bbl was obvious)was removed and repo type 1 band installed along with a repo push safety and mag release. Someone took a perfectly good rebuilt carbine and ruined it with repo parts and wanted top dollar for it.

[jimb]

Not uncommon....

[ncblksmth1]

There are 2 fellows that show up in the Fletcher NC shows that readily and frequently rebuild Carbines at the show and tell folks now with these parts your gun is correct. Folks are eating this up. These guys just put on any part late or early as long as the marking is coded to the MFG'r.

[Sunray]

"...coded to the MFG'r..." Quality made receivers and nothing else. So there are no "all correct" Quality Carbines. Sounds like Bubba is active in NC.
And not all Quality Carbines had Quality receivers. 28,949 of 'em were made by Union Switch & Signal.
All Quality Hardware manufactured receivers used the detachable recoil spring tube.

[BrianQ]

"...coded to the MFG'r..." Quality made receivers and nothing else. So there are no "all correct" Quality Carbines.

Every time you post you show how little you know about M1 Carbines.