Quote Originally Posted by edteach View Post
Thanks. Can you explain or link to a site that shows what your talking about? I have no idea, not that educated on these. When I say shoot I mean shoot it once in a great while. I collect WW2 guns just not the high end ones.
You have a $200-$250 collectable stock, maybe $300 cleaned up on a good auction day. If you shoot your carbine ONE time and the stock cracks you would have about a $75-$125 stock, maybe less, depending on the crack. You can buy a solid, non-collectable USGI replacement stock anywhere (Fleabay, GunBroker, WTS forums, gunshows, etc.) for about $30-$50 and blast away all you want without risking serious loss of value. Others here may adjust the market values I estimated above as they see fit, but your stock has real value. For the benefit of some reading this, I do not sell stocks.

Your stock is not museum quality but it is clean, honest and original and I would not use it to shoot if it were mine. ChipS