Winchester Stock Question

[Greymount]

Why are some Winchester stocks stamped with a large W on the end of the stock while others are stamped with a small w. Also if a M1917 has a barrel (Winchester, Remington or Eddystone) which is from a different manufacturer as the receiver was this a re-arsenal during WW2 of was the re-arsenal completed shortly after WW1.

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[RC20]

I will defer to the true experts, but to the best of my knowledge, WWI era replacement barrels on the 1917s did not happen

I am happy to stand corrected! this is just what I have seen, read and some discussion.

I have never seen nor heard of a WWI era re-arsenal that used a different mfg barrel (nor a matching replacement mfg barrel to the receiver)

It does not make sense but it almost seems like they did not make spare barrels out of those contracts. If they did there should be at least some in the original packaging show up. I would like to see that myself.

There was some disusing about that on another forum and no one had seen a WWI era R, W or E that had a barrel that was not in the right date range for OEM mfg let alone different mfg (the barrel date should not match the receiver mfg date in that case)

Why is a mystery, certainly a plethora of other parts were made. Not the story with the 1903s. Spare barrels were part of the package.

basically its seems so far if it has a different mfg barrel it was non arsenal work. I have one of those. If that stands as true, then someone took the original barrel off or wound up with a bare receive and then put on one of the barrels that had been taken off another 1917 back onto it.

WWII era the barrels were produced by JA, HS and RIA and you find re-arsenaled.