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RIA stamp on stock with flaming ordnance bomb question
The stock is on a NRA/DCM carbine that came from the Rock Island Arsenal in February 1967. It’s an oval cut Winchester high wood stock. There is a box with RIA over EB on the left side below the rear sight which I assume indicates the carbine was rebuilt at Rock Island.
What’s the significance of the flaming/ordnance bomb below the recoil plate?
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10-04-2013 05:09 PM
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Most likely someone with too much time on their hands and just hit the stock with the ordnance bomb stamp.
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My M1
carbine RIA stamp is on the right side of the butt, it came to me direct from RIA. I think the stock stamper on the OPs gun got his locations mixed-up.
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I've seen those ord. bombs stamped there on Rock-Ola stocks. I think I've seen them on other make stocks as well. I suspect that this may indicate a replacement stock (spares were made by all makers).
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jimb.................It rolls around in the back on my mind that I have seen a stock marked like that before too.
Would a replacement stock have a CC stamp? This one has W.R.A. over G.H.D. and a crossed cannon stamp on the right side
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I'm not sure whether the ones produced by the carbine makers were marked with the ord. stamp or not, but I know the ones made by Jamestown Lounge had a special Ord. stamp.
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