M1 Folding Stock

[Bill Hollinger]

Promo, it looks like you have a very nice original M1A1 Paratrooper stock there. Welcome to the boards and enjoy.

[Promo]

So.. Is it now cutdown or lowwood?

[mpd1978]

So.. Is it now cutdown or lowwood?

Without a clear macro photo of the area shown in post #9 its hard to say for sure. From the blurry photo, i am leaning towards an as made Low wood and not a cut down.

[Promo]

Can someone post pictures showing the difference between made lowwood and cut lowwood?

Here are better pictures of my stock.

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[usgicollector]

It is a lowwood stock.

[mpd1978]

I dont have any cut down stocks to photo for you. Yours is an original LowWood and not a cut down one,IMO.

[frankderrico]

Promo, if the milling marks from the cut down are the same as the rest of the right rail, then it was made as a low wood and is not a cut down highwood. HTH.....Frank

[Mikey51]

Promo, these are highwoods. The wood covers up most of the right hand side of the slide. It was a fragile part of the stock and was often damaged. When and if, that happened, the remaining wood was often cut off making it a low wood. A careful examination of the area will normally reveal saw, rasp or sanding marks, differing it from the normal factory low wood. I've seen a few otherwise nice I Cuts that are now low wood. Hope this helps. Mike.

[DaveHH]

they don't do a very good job. I have a nice I cut high wood cut to low wood Inland stock on my NPM. It looks like an indifferent government worker did the cutting. From a practical standpoint, I don't think I'd like to have a highwood stock on a carbine I'd be using, it is a weak point for sure.

[Promo]

Can someone post pictures comparing the cutdown lowwood to normal lowwood? Looked everywhere but didn't find any good picture at all.