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[Brian Dick]

The late, great Hook Boutin told me that he liked to fill them with Devcon during the NM/M21 bedding process for added strength. In military service, they will crack from the selector relief cut to the magazine housing on rare occasion if getting heavy use. I never saw a broken stock during my time as an armorer but we only had M21's at that point. All of the straight M14 service rifles were long gone. I was told there were piles of broken stocks buried at Fort Bragg just before my time there in the 80's. I met a retired Colonel during my SCACA gun show days in the 90's who told me he witnessed dump truck loads of them being transported to a big dozer pit. He followed and managed to scrounge as many decent stocks as he could get at the time and made several trips as there were many good stocks along with stacks of broken ones. I remember when the Poly Tech and Norinco rifles were imported back in the 90's. I bought and sold quite a few. The PolyTech's being a bit nicer if memory serves. They had real forged receivers rather than investment cast so many bought them and rebuilt them into match rifles using common, (at the time), US GI parts. America's last true wood and steel battle rifle. One of my all time favorites.