Vietnam clone...”The Shillelagh“

[AmEngRifles]

OK< finally got the pictures uploaded and sized. I will be, at minimum, hitting the whole stock with linseed oil. Will see how the light spots blend? Not sure what I would stain those areas with them to and match the old finish, which is heavily sanded now.

The stock for this project was a GB buy of a stock with a really horrible butt end. It had cracks, staples and really needed to be removed from the rest of the stock, so it was PERFECT for this little project. Added a couple of pics from the Internet that inspired the piece.

The guys in Viet Nam had to rework rifles, but today we have pistol forms of the carbine. Although I do recall, sometime during the 70's, the commercial carbine manufacturers started to come out with their pistol versions, the Enforcer. Guess that had been inspired by those modifications being done In Country.

When the thing runs out of bullets, you can grab it by the barrel end and give a good whack with the knob at the opposite end. :-)

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