For his efforts (I believe), he was pardoned for creating the very weapon that had put him in prison in the first place.Īn old black and white movie played by Jimmy Stewart who would place him forever in histories "Hall of Fame". I saw this site and found it quit interesting, noticing that several of the members knew a great deal about these magnificently engineered rifles created by a man named "Carbine Williams" who had been incarcerated for having killed a revenue officer while raiding his still. The trigger group was stamped IO and the safety, rear sight and added bayonet lug were the updated types shown throughout his book.Īnyway, I assume the X serial number was placed on the rifle due to the unreadable original serial number as the rifle had no other signs of any special wood or metal work. included at different locations on the stock. The stock was made by "Standard Products" with various sized crossed cannon cartouche's stamped into the wood along with "Stand. However, the manufacturer IBM and the original multiple serial number was not legible though the nicely factory green reparkerizing that had been done probably at the end of WWII. Once I returned home to Michigan and after spending a snowless winter there, I bought the paperbacked book and pulled out Dad's old rifle once again and began taking it apart to examine the various pieces that made up it's configuration as a rifle. A few days later he sent me an email with a three sentence paragraph relating to the mysterious X carbines included in Craig Riesch's collectors book titled "U.S M1 Carbines, Wartime Production". I replied, "why yes, how did you know"? It has an X directly proceeded by 2487. He took the hook and asked me the question that I've since learned every collector of these famous battle asks, " does it have an X". While meeting a collector in Arizona a number of years ago who had a number of these rifles, I casually mentioned I too had a carbine with an odd serial number. They have now all moved on, but the rifle although taking up a cubby at the back of my safe, still brings back fond memories of the years my Dad would climb the hills and valleys of our tiny county chasing the elusive white tailed deer that populated our forests.
It was given to my Dad in the late 50's, as a gift from a old collector who lived in our quiet little lake shore Northern Michigan tow, for all the kindnesses my father would showered upon the man and his wife.
Also in the dusty far corner of the safe, behind these graceful war relics stood a short but deadly rifle which was also a weapon of a long ago war, the sister to these historical MI Garand's. Whenever I take them out from my safe to admire their magnificence and would try to imagine the man who had carried it. I've been collecting MI battle rifles for a number of years.
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