M1 Carbine Stocks

[Deppizzymo]

I picked up a high wood reproduction from Dupage for my rebarreled Winchester. The way I see it is I have a solid/beautiful stock that looks the part and if anyone wants to bash me they can go right ahead. It's a mix master shooter, not a collector's piece. They're about $95 shipped which is pretty steep for a repo but it looks way way nicer than the M2 stocks. If I had an all matching non-refurbished gem I would be doing some searching for something a little more authentic.

[cali201]

I picked up a high wood reproduction from Dupage for my rebarreled Winchester. The way I see it is I have a solid/beautiful stock that looks the part and if anyone wants to bash me they can go right ahead. It's a mix master shooter, not a collector's piece. They're about $95 shipped which is pretty steep for a repo but it looks way way nicer than the M2 stocks. If I had an all matching non-refurbished gem I would be doing some searching for something a little more authentic.

I agree, nice looking piece of wood on your carbine is a thing of beauty. As long as you are not re stamping it with a cartouche stamp like the ones on fleabay you are good to go. I have a repro M1A1 on my Inland with it's original high wood stock tucked away. My carbines, like yours, are for MY enjoyment!!

[USGI]

I picked up a high wood reproduction from Dupage

Did you have any problems with the fit, or did the action drop right in? I've seen a few Internet comments about poor machining on those stocks. Are they really Boyd's "seconds," or is that a myth? - Bob

[imntxs554]

The Stock was re-acting to a chemical residue of something that he used, the gunsmith that has woodwork experience emailed me this morning and asked me if it was chalkie. Thats excatly what it was doing. He said use some peroxide with baking soda, pour it all over to stock to stop the reaction. Then wipe it down and use a hair dryer all over and i did. I did this early this morning and it dried with no chalk or powder residue, then applied that Winsor Cold Pressed linseed oil around 9 this morning and it soaked it up and looks shiny. I took 6 pictures but all were 1.2 to 1.6 mb and wouldn't post. I will take more later and post them to show the Stock on my '45 Inland. I want to Thank everyone who has help and Thank You WarPig.

Frank

[cali201]

i have purchased some stocks from Dupage in the past, they were indeed Boyds' "seconds" as it was stamped in the barrel channel Boyd's with a date. Fit was fine, the once I had purchased had been billed as having the barrel band spring hole drilled wrong but it was pretty close and worked ok without any alteration on my part. One or 2 had been partially stained and I had to finish the staining and blend in, this was about 2 years ago so I guess they get different batches of stocks here and there like any closeout place gets left over or damaged items to sell.

[imntxs554]

Thanks Bob for re-sizing the pictures, the only thing i could think of was to retake them, but i would like to know how you did this. Im definitely not a photgrapher and would like to know more about it.

[cali201]

no problem with the 3 I cut stocks I got from Dupage, actions dropped right in.

[imntxs554]

Could anybody help identify this Trimble over TN, was this a WW2 Stock. I bought it and in the Sling Well there Was Trimble over TN, it also looks like the Butt Plate has been on there a very long time, even when i removed the recoil plate it look like it was made for it , i tried to change it ,but it didnt look right so i put it back then you couldnt see nothing on the right side until i put some Linseed oil and you can barely see half a ordnance wheel. Was this a WW2 Stock or Replacement Stock used by any of the M1 Contractors in WW2 or is this fake. It's Solid Stock and has the dings and dents no cracks, but this a really nice Stock. When i rebuilt my Iver i needed a real nice stock and i bougnt this. When the Oil dries the wheel goes away. Thanks

Frank

[cali201]

National Postal Meter stocks were made by Trimble and would have that in the sling well. The cartouche, to the best of my knowledge, should be next to the boxed NPM over FJA inspectors mark but I guess it is possibe that either it missed having the inspector mark or yours is worn. Look close from many angles on the right side, anything look like a NPM/FJA box remaining? #9 would be the NPM ?/ Trimble. It does say that the box inspector mark may not be on very early stocks,cannot tell if yorus is an I cut HW cut downto LW by the picture which, IMO , would be an early stock.


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[shadycon]

Photo's: you need to use a photo progam to shink your photo's down to about 800x1200 pixels. They will upload nicely and to view them you will not have to scroll the page sideways [ back and forth ] . GK