Fake WRA/GHD on sales board

[Rick B]

They have gotten good at the Winchester GHD because it doesn't have allot of curves in it. The Springfield stamps are a bit tougher with the S's and there cannons are very firm and not cartoon like. It is only a matter of time but they will still leave subtle things I hope I can still find. The problem is I never know when I am verifying a stock for someone if it is a forger asking for me to tell them why I find it fake only to fix that issue. Rick B

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[Bob Seijas]

Yes, Rick, that's always the dilemma -- if you tell them what's wrong they will make the next ones better. The consolation is that you have made one whole generation of fakes unsaleable and one stamp useless, like the Snoopy DAS

I'm thinking the limit on good fakes will eventually be only the raw material on which to stamp them. Nice GI walnut is getting very scarce.

[HILLBILLY-06]

I'm thinking the limit on good fakes will eventually be only the raw material on which to stamp them. Nice GI walnut is getting very scarce.

Before one of the local army surplus store owners passed away, I had asked him if he ever got any old M1 Garand or M14 stocks to sell.
He just smiled, paused a second, and said "son, a long time ago" the Army trucks lined up out here in my driveway, and dropped off one dump-truck load of them things after the other. There were several dump truck loads, "just piled up out there, smothered in cosmoline"
Now there was no way in hell, He said, that I could ever put that many stocks in my store for sale, or in my garage, or anywhere for that matter.
He said I even tried giving some away, but back then, after the war, nobody wanted that many of them.
"So I asked kindly," well what did you do with all of them? He said...much to my suprise..."They sure did burn good" with all that cosmoline in em!
So I guess things like that, are exactly why there arent more good original WW2 GI stocks left around anywhere anymore. "SAD, but TRUE"......HILLBILLY-06.