birch replacement stock

Nice birch replacement stock (Overton) finish is BLO

RCS,
That is a nice looking stock! Thanks for posting!!

I remember ordering a set of birch from Numrich in about 1985 or so. It came to me perfect and affordable and new. It went on a gun that went somewhere else, too bad...

There is something missing from the rifle - anyone spot it ?

Have seen M14 stocks with the same figure too.

Piling swivel. It shot loose??

Jim is right but the front sight is also missing. Years ago I installed a dovetail base on the gas cylinder after milling off the original base. This way I could install target front sights which I used for steel plate shooting. Having the double aperture front and rear was ideal
for me on steel plates at 100 and 200 yards in off hand positions

Robert, Really like that front sight. Never did see that done before. As to the stock, I had gotten a similar stock on my DCM " one in a lifetime" IHC in 1984. It now sits on a nice SA 5.8. It would take a lot more BLO and hours of rubbing to even get it anywhere close to yours.

Just took a second look at your stock and my stock could never come close. That stock of yours with the matching handguards is really a thing of beauty. Joe


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Back in the late 1990s, I sent my 1st M1 to Mel Bishop (remember him) to install a VAR barrel I had purchased online. The barrel it came with was shot out big time. While Mel had it, I asked him to install another stock on it, the original was trashed. He had some stocks that he had acquired from Anniston, I assume they had come off of the crushed M1s. When it came back, it has a beautiful stock just like yours and it shot really well with the VAR barrel. To this day, it has remained my shooter even though I have acquired several more from the CMP. This 1st M1 was an Arlington Ordinance and I believe they were acquired from South Korea. At least they had oriental writing on them and they were in bad shape. The stock cost $90!!!!!!

Attachment 33413Still difficult to take birch over walnut, this pre war stock must have come out of the custom shop at Winchester.

We don't get to have those walnut stocks though...only you do!