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    Anyone have a list of post WWII rifles with wood stocks?

    As my collection seems to be expanding beyond WWII items, I've decided to look into wood stocked Milsurps as my possible cut off point. Not my area of expertise at all. I can think if the following:

    Egyptian Hakim
    Frenchicon MAS 49 series
    AK-47 types
    SkS types
    M-14
    FR-7, FR-8
    Yugoicon 48
    Yugo 24/47
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    Some few that spring to mind:

    FN49
    Early FALs and lots of L1a1s.
    Some SVD variants.
    Some CETMEs.

    But except for the FN49s, many are now found with non-wood furniture.

    There's been wood furniture for the AR15 platform, but none military.

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    A few more

    FN Model 1950 Mauser short rifle (Belgiumicon, Israel, Colombia...)
    Madsen Model 47 (Columbia...) - probably the last original design of a repeating rifle with wooden stock.
    Indian (RFI) .308 Enfields. 2A and 2A1. Made up to about 1970!
    The Indian 2A/2A1s were probably the very last fully wood-stocked bolt-action repeaters to be manufactured for regular service use.
    That was about it for bolt-action repeaters.

    Then the self-loaders:
    Beretta/Breda M59 Garands in .308 (not quite the same as the original .30M1).
    Czechicon VZ 52/57
    Heckler & Koch SL7 (OK, not front-line army issue, more for training and army reservists).
    What came after may have had a wood/laminate butt (Dragunow, AK47 etc), but full stocks were out of fashion.
    Now it's all black and plastic shooting machines.
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    -The Egyptian Rasheed
    -The AG42B was technically made during the war but not upgraded to the B configuration until the 50ies if you want to split hairs

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    Also the Madsen M47-58 the VZ 52 and VZ52/57

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