(Back story... Yes I'm bored! )
I grew up in a family where guns were pretty much a dirty word. When my uncle gave me a BB gun for my 16th birthday I came home the next day to find out my mother had tossed it. When my wife and I were dating her father (retired Army) invited me to shoot Sporting Clays and set the hook deep for the love of firearms. My next outing was him teaching me some basic rifle shooting on his "correct grade" CMP purchased carbine. Since then I've been on the look out but with prices on most of the nice USGI ones I've passed up quite a few.
The other night I saw one on a facebook group that looked pretty good and came with a bayonet, sling, and ammo pouch. Made him an offer $200 less than his asking price and he said yes. One minor detail... He lives 250 miles away and won't hold it for me if someone else shows up with the cash. ****. So after a discussion with my wife, we packed up our 3 week old son and we all got in the car at 4am to drive the 4 hours to go pick it up. Our thinking here was that he likes to sleep in the car and she might actually get some sleep. As it turns out that's the best sleep she's had since we had the little bugger! When we got there I couldn't have been more happy about the condition of the gun. It is nearly flawless and appears all correct.
Long story slightly less than longer... It's a 45 GM Inland with correct stock and barrel. I need to pull it apart and check the insides but I'm pretty confident i'll find that it all matches up. Stock is GORGEOUS and I'm sorry my photos don't do it justice. Unfortunately the bayonet is one of the reproductions made in the early 90's by the same knife manufacturer that made the original ones. Almost had me fooled to be honest. Now I need to get my hands on some brass, a mold, and get to loading! I've got some proper pull down powder around here somewhere....