cmp m1 garands tips or advice

[Charlie59]

Recently, the CMP has been shipping a high % of Service Grades with garish "Orange" beech wood stocks. Check the CMP website for posts about these: M1 Garand - CMP Forums

If I were ordering one, I'd specify "walnut" rather than "orange. While the Army used beech stocks in late production rifles, the color was golden or gold-red, not orange.

A lot of guys have specified walnut, and still received birch.

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[DaveN]

You kept saying new walnut stocks but my CMP new stocks were the very light beech and try as a could can not get them darker. as you can see the metal is great (like brand new) but the wood is hideous. I did buy two very nice walnut stocks from James river manufacturing to replace two of the birch stocks that I tried staining and was not satisfied with the results.