Any body have a clue?

[22mike]

Very strange.............
Looks like a plastic container inside the hole in the stock. The round wooden piece that is removed looks like a plug and the groove in the plug is where the oiler sits when plug is inserted into stock. Looks very professionally done. My guess would be it was used to keep drugs in while on duty.

[DaveHH]

They were just as hungry and bored as we were. I would bet that this is Vietnamese cottage industry, either done for a GI or for a VC cadre to haul documents or dope. Remember those fine knives everyone bought that wound up being made from car springs? Those guys had a lot of patience and lots of time to do something like this and every Vil had someone that could do this kind of stuff. I had a guy in Nha Trang make me a small copy of the USGI .45 holster so I could pack around my personal Browning .380 in style. It was a perfect holster with pistol belt hooks and everything in black. Took the guy a week and cost about $300 Pi

Just some GI's dope stash. By 1969 they were bringing in opium and killer smoke from Burma and Thailand and you could pack a lot in that stock.

[painter777]

Those were my same thoughts........Someone's stash.

Charlie-painter777

[jackthesmib]

Overall fit and finish appears rather new to me & the stain appears fresh.jmho