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This may be the nicest military stock conversion I have run across in a long time. I picked this one up at a pawn shop just because I liked it. I am going to use the action for a custom, but take a look at this stock. It is walnut. I can recall when you could get the little diamond and shield inlays to use to cover holes in the stock.

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The vet who did this one also had to fill the holes where a steel plate was attched to the side of the buttstock so that the German mountain troops would not screw up the stocks with their crampons (Krampons??).

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The action itself is a G33/40 -- a small ring 98 with lightening cuts.

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Happy New Year!

 

Clemson

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Wow, I wish the pawnshops around here had such cool stuff!

 

a 6.5x55 with a featherweight barrel

 

Perfect!

 

I hope you have some plans to put that stock back in action too! A 8-06 made from a surplus barrel with stock sights would be very appropriate. A new all black recoil pad and refinish and you're back to the future.

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Great find, Clemson. Out here G33/40's go for a fortune. I can't remember the last time I saw one for sale.

 

While there certainly is a touch of nostalgia to that stock from a post war "working man's gun" that action definitely calls for an elegant treatment. Something light and quick and no black stocks, or pink or yellow or green...

 

Brad

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