One of these three stocks is an early M14 for the M1 Rifle buttplate
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One of these three stocks is an early M14 for the M1 Rifle buttplate
I thought the one on the right. And then I thought by the way, shouldn't they have the cutout at the top for the M14 buttplate? Which none have, so they all take the M1 butt plate.
I'm going with the one on the right just because the screw holes are different than the other 2.
I'm going with the one on the left.
I'm thinking I've never removed the buttplate on mine, because I surely don't know. The rear swivel attachment is the same, so...why the big holes on two?
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Enlarged too much, sorry!
The M14 stock that used the M1 rifle buttplate is on the far left. Note the larger diameter hole for the top buttplate screw, before the normal hole for the screw. You don't see M1 buttstocks
with the two diameter top screw hole.
You do find the top screw hole with a plug and a new hole drilled like this photo of some WRA WB stocks (showing no-trap to factory trapdoor with different modifications along the way)
Unless you do! Found one this morning. Photos coming, but no I.D. marks left. I got it about 25 years ago out of a huge pile of ratty old stocks at a military surplus store's storage building. $5 or $15.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCS
Photos:
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The toe's pretty degraded, but it's not odd otherwise.
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The front's not as bad as it looks here, but again, it's just something that was bought at random.
Do you think it was factory (two diameter top screw hole) or rebuild. Sometimes a rebuild facility would drill out the top screw hole and not install the plug. There are variations of the early M14 stock concerning the top screw hole. Your stock photos look just like the early M14 stock. They were using some different variations of the M1 buttplate including aluminum for testing and the two diameter size top screw hole could be related ?
I don't see any sign of a plug or repair there, but it's pretty crusty.
The stock has been mated to a rifle, as the wood is compressed on the belly, but it's too big to close the trigger guard on any of the actions tried so far. Otherwise, it would either be gone or in active use. Good "full figured" stock.
An aluminum buttplate would be great! But then there would have to be another rifle to go with it.:D
jmoore, Try a small screw with a buttplate on that top screw hole in your stock, see if it is tight or loose ?
Update: borrowed a screw from a complete Springfield M1 rifle that was in the vicinity.
Nice tight fit:
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It is difficult to understand why the recess around the screw was drilled, some support is also lost around the screw too. The flange on the top screw hole of the buttplate will not extend that deep into the stock to require a recess. Some stocks could have been unintentionally drilled this way (I thought it was unique only to the M14) too. Photo shows an early no-trap Winchester stock that has an extra milling cut in the trigger guard recess which was unintentional.
Do you suppose a wandering wood shaper bit did the extra cut? Bad Monday or hasty Friday?