30M1 stock markings

[USGI]

To me, it's interesting that the recoil plate area has been milled off - haven't seen that before. - Bob

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[Patrick Chadwick]

recoil plate area has been milled off

Likely explanation: the wood was damaged in this area, and so it was milled off to make a clean cut to glue on a repair piece (which would then require hand shaping) and whoever it was never got around to completing the job.

Since it was the only stock out of half a dozen or so on offer that was not the later "fat boy"-style M2 stock, I bought it cheaply as being more appropriate to an otherwise correct 1943 barrelled system. I can manage such a repair myself, and for such things have more time than money, plus being impatient to get my carbine fixed.