Guess what I just won!

[ralfus]

Someone went through a lot of effort to make that beech stock. I wonder what the story is?


You could always say it was dug up in Belgium and make 10X what you paid (just kidding)

[Bill Hollinger]

My son said it looks as if it was carved out of a fallen knotty pine branch! Gawd, it is ugly! It's mine, all mine I tell you!

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Yes Bill,
It's about the second ugliest stock I think I've seen -

Nothing will ever beat Charlie's carbine stock as the ugliest stock though!

[Will M]

Bead blast it and blue it. It will look better than you think. But don't shoot it!

[Bill Hollinger]

It has been blasted and there is no finish to it! Oh my goodness it is even uglier in person! This will get you, everything works.....that's there! The bolt and safety are free and movable and even the butt trap opens!

The stock is home made. Some one did put a great deal of work into this for what it is. This thing "is so ugly it could be a modern art masterpiece" There is the appearance of one inch of rifling about six inches in from the muzzle. The cool thing is it shoots four inch groups at four feet!

I need a magazine floor plate and spring, front band screw, top buttplate screw and trigger housing screws to hold it together. Sight would be cool also. Looking for donators

[Rick the Librarian]

Definitely a rifle only a mother or a M1903 nut could love!!

[chuckusaret]

Some one said "shoot It", does not photo #12 show a crack in the barrel?. I have a neighbor that has one in similar condition hanging above his bar, looks good from a distance in the dimly lit room.

[Bill Hollinger]

That is the rear sight collar in photo #12.

[Alfred]

It would still serve as a drill rifle. If it didn't shatter like a jelly jar first time the butt hit the floor.

From the looks of the receiver perhaps a permanent de milling would be in order.

Last time I saw a weapon in similar shape was a pistol keep in a office drawer for fifty years at an ice house.

A friend found a Winchester Golden Spike in the wreck of a sunken trawler that was in much worse shape. It looked a lot like an ancient gold plated Iron battle axe found in a tomb which I've seen photos of. In each case the rusted iron under the gold plating had swollen and split the plating.

[rondog]

Aw hell, that'll buff out! (come on, somebody had to say it!)

But for the price, that'll be a great wallhanger!