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zorba
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Garand Stock refinish
zorba
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Some will love it, some will hate it, but traditional it is not:
Original appearance as seen at the SE shoot...
The original was CMP's attempt to make the non-traditional wood (Hackberry, apparently supplied by Boyd's) look like Walnut. I think it looks better by allowing the Hackberry to be Hackberry - or at least a faux Oak. Its a beautiful wood in its own right, but it'll never be Walnut nor should it try to look like it.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
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"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
That can't ever detract from your results. Results that will likely be embraced as the scarcity of these rifles increase.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
I have a M96 that was used as a donor for my first rifle project. I also have a Surplus M96 that will remain as a surplus.
You did a good job but can't say I'm wild about the glossy finish...but then it ain't my rifle...
Did you get a bayonet for that thing yet?
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
I like the stock. I'm surprised they use hackberry. Hackberry is a fast growing trash tree in these parts that is known for having VERY soft wood. Hopefully it is a different hackberry.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Im sure there are purest out there that wont/done like it, but i think it goes nice with the gun.
- Don Burt
The purists long since labeled me a heretic when I put a clamp on "scout mount" scope mount on mine.
individual is good
Now with that out of the way, lets talk about why military stocks on rifles are DARK colored. They are dark and matte finished to provide a little camouflage to the rifle, the same as that grey or green Parkerizing on the metal parts protected and camouflaged the metal and kept it from glinting in the sunlight. There's a reason for why things are the way they are, and some have a lot more to do with survival of the troops in battle than military custom. You don't see a lot of military rifles with really shiny stocks and chrome plated metal out on the battlefield; those rifles are for the fancy drill teams.
― Douglas Adams
All the things we surround our self has to be pleasing to our eye & not done for others . If I want a red stock ..... I will have a red stock .
Or there's cheesecake.
Indeed a correct stock should be a walnut one; most of the M-1s have already been arsenal-rebuilt at least once, so not like you're defacing lieutenant Spiers' original Garand or so. Works as a nice shooter.
Fun project would be returning it to "correct" WWII or Korean war condition by scrounging correct parts online and in shows, but not a cheap, quick enterprise that will add little if any final value to the rifle.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."