New To Me 1928A1 AO

[Grease Gunner]

Picked up a AO 1928a1 as a "shooter"

Mechanically it looks great aside from having two buffers in it which I will replace after shooting it the

way it came. It does have a Savage lower which is not common according to all that I have read.

Looks like it saw British use as per location of sling swivels. Kind of a low serial number 56,000

Any members have an idea of when manufactured? It seems from Page 155 of American Thunder, its around Feb 1941

 

Edited May 24, 2018 by Haris357

[TSMGguy]

There will be another serial number on the frame under the removable butt stock.

[Grease Gunner]

There will be another serial number on the frame under the removable butt stock.

That one is S-238260 which is from a Savage.Since Savage made 200,000 1928s before AO made their first one, the savage lower may be close in Vintage

[Bridgeport28A1]

AOC Bridgeport didn't get their first 1928's off the production line until approximately August 1941 so your AO 50,000 serial number gun will be a little later then August, Fall 1041 might be as close you will ever have for an estimate. As far as Savage lowers being less common. Savage made a little more then 3X the number of 1928/A1's then the AOC Bridgeport plant. What the ratio of Savage versus Bridgeport plant guns that were sent as Lend Lease I do not know although there was a listing of serial numbers posted at one time of a member who had saw a large quantity of the Lend Lease "Russian" guns. Your AO 50,000 serial number is in the range reported.

[Bridgeport28A1]

Haris357, I would PM David Albert and ask him to move your posting out of the Colt Serial number sub forum.

[Grease Gunner]

will ask him to move it out

[ron_brock]

Interesting rear grip that someone modified to make fit their hand better or something. If you dont alesady have it, I would suggest Tom Davis book on lend lease Thompsons. Yours spent some time overseas and came back via Interarms. Congrats!

 

Ron

[Adg105200]

Interesting rear grip that someone modified to make fit their hand better or something. If you dont alesady have it, I would suggest Tom Davis book on lend lease Thompsons. Yours spent some time overseas and came back via Interarms. Congrats!

 

Ron

The rear grip is one of the first things I noticed. It looks like a over sanded Savage grip. Not to say that it couldn't have left the factory that way.

 

Nice gun though, congrats.

 

Andrew

[huggytree]

might have got a ding or chip in the grip an someone sanded it smooth to hide it...odds are a hack mark wouldnt feel good in your palm....maybe it got smashed over a Nazi skull and chipped.....

 

i always like to picture something exciting.....i had a stock for a Enfield that had a copper jacket piece in it...wondered if a bullet splattered on it during battle...when i refinished it i didnt pick the piece out...left it in