National Guard Markings

[Aragorn243]

Any consistency to National Guard markings on stocks or were these something that the individual units would have placed on them?

I was cleaning mine this evening and noticed a MNG stamp directly behind the bolt on a 1902 rifle. As there are a lot of states beginning with "M", I'm wondering which one it might be.

Of course for all I know, it may have nothing to do with the National Guard and may mean something else.

[andiarisaka]

Only 8 states to chose from, and it seems more likely to be one of their National Guard Units, vs Milton Nathan Gunderson or something on that order. I think each state did their own thing, or nothing at all, and that some are responsible for what appears to be a rack number stamped in various places on Krag rifles, primarily on the tang of the buttplate..

[jon_norstog]

Sounds like something you could research on the web. Plus maybe emailing state historians. I've seen National Guard-marked '95 Winchesters (Colorado) so some states IDed (some of) their weapons pretty well. You got a month or two of cold evenings to work on it, right?

jn