Finding a tiger striped stock for a 1903A3 as a gift??

I am a new member, with almost no experience and nothing to offer here, but am looking for some advice on finding a gift for my husband!

Can anyone point me in the right direction in finding a tiger striped stock for a 1903A3??

I may sound like an idiot as I really have no idea what I'm doing... but is there a price range I should expect? Are the very difficult to find?

If they will be he very difficult to find or very expensive, I'm open to any other ideas. He has the 1903A3 and an M1Garand.

Thank you!

You're no idiot dear girl...we'll try to find one here someplace...there's lots of people here that have that sort of thing. A tiger stripe stock is usually something done by hand. Here's a site that can give you some idea what a retail stock should run. More will follow me on this...just be patient... Springfield Rifle Parts

Never put yourself down you are amongst friends here who share a common passion of collecting, shooting and owning various types and makes of firearms and all to willing to assist or help people.

Google Dupage Trading Company and give them a call. They might be able to supply a stock or at least point you in the right direction.

Brownells offers a nice repro Italian made C stock, id call them and ask to hand pick one and handguard with the quality you want, most of the ones iv fitted were outstanding wood.

Thank you for the support and advice so far. I'll check out your suggestions. It's hard to sneak around my husband, his birthday is in March so I have a bit of time and I hope to surprise him. He's also on many forums so I have no idea if he uses this one.

He tries to educate me on firearms, but I'm still very lost coming from a family where I had nothing to do with them and was pretty much taught to fear them. I'm over that now at least, and looking into getting a carry permit, but the terminology will probably always confuse me.

We'll be around...you can always PM one of us if you fear him finding you searching. You have several directions to work now though...

I have always looked at what it takes to engineer a piece of equipment such as a rifle as the tolerances are incredible when you think of the dynamic forces you unleash when you fire the weapon and to all of us no matter what we collect or shoot they are an entity of themselves if my 1916 No I Mk III Lithgow 303 could talk what stories it may tell.
And this goes for all of us in the forums no matter what we collect or shoot we are as individual as the firearms but share the common passion, at times we may spruke what is better between types but in the long run and big picture we all share with each other as a collective.
And there are some extremely well trained and versed personnel on this site and for my mind there is no better place to have come to and be steered in the right direction...:thup:

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Originally Posted by chuckindenver

Brownells offers a nice repro Italian made C stock, id call them and ask to hand pick one and handguard with the quality you want, most of the ones iv fitted were outstanding wood.

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I apologize if I'm going too far off topic. Can you comment on how the Brownells reproduction 03-A3 stocks compare to the CMP reproduction 03-A3 stocks? Are the Brownells 03-A3 stocks sold with handguards (they aren't pictured)?

Thanks for your comments!

i would contact Brownells and ask them..
the CMP stocks are less then good, too many variations, and too much work to make them fit.
the Minelli stocks iv installed have been exellent.