We're type 99 stocks miss matched with recievers during the war?

[MilsurpMM]

The reason why is because the stock i have now was refinished by the previous owner and while the new finish looks beautiful, it bothers me too much knowing that its not original, nor the correct finish on Type 99 stocks.

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Well, do you think that stocks for early Arisakas were sometimes put onto mid-late war Arisakas due to lack of supplies?

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[burb1989]

I wouldn't think the Japanese would do that and I haven't seen any solid evidence to the contrary. All I've seen like what you're describing are just rescued sporters that were easy to tell that they had the wrong stocks. Though that didn't stop the sellers from asking full retail. As a series 6 your gun was made mid war (sometime around 1943) and the Japanese wouldn't be that strapped for parts to reuse an older stock when they were still making new stocks for rifles coming out of the factory. Maybe one could've been recycled for a very late war "last ditch" rifle but for a mid war rifle it just seems highly unlikely. As I said earlier with the amount you're going to sink into this rifle you can buy another untouched rifle and your rifle won't be correct thus it would be worth less than one left alone. I would hate for someone to sink a lot of money into something and not be able to get it back in the long run.