General Tire & Rubber fiberglass M14 stocks

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When the M14 rifle became available in large numbers in the early 1960's, there also appeared a fiberglass stock also with the hinged butt plate (early examples of the fiberglass stock used the M1 rifle butt plate). From the examples that I have found, there are two variations.

The first variation is without the checkering pattern on the pistol grip and fore-end while the second variation has the checkering patterns.

It is not common to find the early variation of the fiberglass stock and would assume that it did not last too long in service. I have seen the early fiberglass stocks on new issue M14 rifles and often wondered if they were testing the stocks. Also could some of these fiberglass stocks be used on new production M14 rifles ?Attachment 95526Attachment 95527Attachment 95528Attachment 95529Attachment 95530

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