Has anyone ever seen a carbine stock where they missed applying the ordnance crossed cannons? I simply presumed it had been sanded the crud out of deep enough to completely remove the final acceptance proof? (more likely) It seems too important to miss. The stock in question is a high wood oval cut Inland with the usual IO in the slingwell BUT with a "P" proof on the bottom of the pistol grip. The "P" seems to originate with Inland's intermittent use rather than a rebuild where the other stamp has been sanded off as the carbine is still all matching and early.


Also did they really accept stocks with knot based defects in them? This is the second stock I have noticed with an egregious knot with a chunk missing but just in the butt in this case The other one had the knot right in the "highwood" and had a crack in the slide area because of it!
Or were these stocks added later (despite having passed inspection) when carbine parts were hard to find on the civilian market?
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