Each rifle ships with one new aftermarket replica of an original 15 round magazine. Frankly, I think we have hit a home run here. Also, while we never guarantee for bore condition, we did clean several bores and the bores cleaned up quite nicely on all of the guns that we randomly sampled to run a brush through. We also did a multi-point dry function test to ensure that the rifles would be in good working order. A few of the rifles may have very minor non-function inhibiting cracks in the furniture but if they exist they have been inspected here and deemed to be not significant enough to adversely affect the grading. Having said that, the rifles we selected had to reach a certain minimum threshold that we felt justified the price before we would accept the rifle and we tried to keep our standards pretty high in terms of our cosmetic grading. As such, expect some dings, scratches, nicks, etc, on the wood, and of course varying stages of bluing wear. What we ended up with was a very nice small lot of M1 Carbines.Ībout the condition - These are surplus rifles that have been stored for a number of years, in their original turn in condition. If the rifle did not live up to our grading standard of at least NRA surplus good, or if it failed our mechanical dry fire test, then it was rejected. We had the opportunity to inspect these rifles before purchase and each one was chosen based on our grading and criteria. However, when asked to get into rifle production, they took to it like a duck to water eventually opening not only more Hartford facilities, but also one in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Much like I.B.M, prior to WWII, the Underwood Elliott Fisher Company was primarily known for manufacturing typewriters, cash registers, adding machines, and general office equipment.

Military rifles manufactured by the Underwood Elliot Fisher Company of Hartford Connecticut.

Underwood m1 carbin