I have a sporterized stock but not the rifle. I played around with it a bit, cleaned it up real nice and thought about using it as a hunting stock for my M96. The M96 fit in it just fine but my memory is a little vague on how close it fit. It seems to me that the barrel stepping is different between the two. The cutouts didn't match. So while an M96 might fit in the carbine stock, the carbine may not fit in the M96 stock without some inletting of the barrel channel.

Cutting the stock down isn't hard if you are careful. I cut down a full length stock for an M38 project I did a few years ago where the original stock just fell apart from dry rot.
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