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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.
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..
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?
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