birch replacement stock

[RCS]

Nice birch replacement stock (Overton) finish is BLO

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[Midmichigun]

RCS,
That is a nice looking stock! Thanks for posting!!

[browningautorifle]

I remember ordering a set of birch from Numrich in about 1985 or so. It came to me perfect and affordable and new. It went on a gun that went somewhere else, too bad...

[RCS]

There is something missing from the rifle - anyone spot it ?

Have seen M14 stocks with the same figure too.

[browningautorifle]

Piling swivel. It shot loose??

[RCS]

Jim is right but the front sight is also missing. Years ago I installed a dovetail base on the gas cylinder after milling off the original base. This way I could install target front sights which I used for steel plate shooting. Having the double aperture front and rear was ideal
for me on steel plates at 100 and 200 yards in off hand positions

[Joe W]

Robert, Really like that front sight. Never did see that done before. As to the stock, I had gotten a similar stock on my DCM " one in a lifetime" IHC in 1984. It now sits on a nice SA 5.8. It would take a lot more BLO and hours of rubbing to even get it anywhere close to yours.

Just took a second look at your stock and my stock could never come close. That stock of yours with the matching handguards is really a thing of beauty. Joe

[Cajun J]

Back in the late 1990s, I sent my 1st M1 to Mel Bishop (remember him) to install a VAR barrel I had purchased online. The barrel it came with was shot out big time. While Mel had it, I asked him to install another stock on it, the original was trashed. He had some stocks that he had acquired from Anniston, I assume they had come off of the crushed M1s. When it came back, it has a beautiful stock just like yours and it shot really well with the VAR barrel. To this day, it has remained my shooter even though I have acquired several more from the CMP. This 1st M1 was an Arlington Ordinance and I believe they were acquired from South Korea. At least they had oriental writing on them and they were in bad shape. The stock cost $90!!!!!!

[RCS]

Attachment 33413Still difficult to take birch over walnut, this pre war stock must have come out of the custom shop at Winchester.

[browningautorifle]

We don't get to have those walnut stocks though...only you do!