With the serial number that you provided,your serial number falls into a lot of serial numbers assigned by the goverment to Inland division of General Motors from May 1942-Sept,1943.These numbers ranged from 1-999,999.Between 1942-1945 Inland was the manufacturer of the most M-1 Carbines by the 11 assigned manufactures.They made a total of 2,394,510 M-1 carbines.
About Jan 1944.
July 1944
Between May 1942 and September 1943.
Between May 1943 and February 1944.
Between May 1942 and September 1943.
Way after WWII. The srial number lists get really bad after 1945.
you need to give the whole serial number.
By comparing the serial number on the receiver to published charts. sales@countrygunsmith.net
Universals are a civilian version of the M1 carbine, made after WW 2. No serial number data is available for the civilian carbines- sorry.
This serial number was assigned to the Winchester repeating arms company for production of the M-1 Carbine from Feb.1944 thru Nov.1944.these serial number range was 5,549,822 thru 5,834,618 of which yours belongs.I hope that you find this of intrust.
First year production 1912.
Type your answer here... Between May 1942 and September 1943.