The repairs are almost as big as the handguard. My 1912 SMLE has the small handguard showing 2 or 3 repairs. It clearly was used following that repair. It came from the importer with the stock graft as seen. Some cleaning, epoxy and clamping (less than an hour not counting the drying time) and she's a great shooter now.Ī contemporary of the 1917: A 1915 Mosin Nagant M91. This is the "after" pic, the crack goes through the pin (that was present when I got it). I repaired it I expect it would have been repaired were it still in service. My CMP 1917 had a crack in it when I got it. About 3% show various arsenal repairs, including some wood grafts, plenty of typical crack repairs, and a few show the bottom of the stock was either routed and epoxy added, or wood cut away and new wood grafted on to repair the lockup. I bought a crate of well used USGI Garand stocks form Dupage. Impossible to imagine an armorer replacing a chunk out of a wood stock in 2021. JH your comment really makes me think about that. Today we replace broken parts, in that generation the military placed very high value on equipment and weapons, repair was the way. Why would they replace it when the armorer was trained in stock repair, and trained to repair until no longer reasonable before replacing. Maybe it was dropped when unloading the crate? If it was in 99% condition the logic would be no different. Nothing went to waste if it was damaged while in use with the government the stock would be repaired, not replaced if possible. And dozens more from its life in the civilian world. On a 104 year old rifle there are dozens of reasonable reasons why a 95% rifle will have a stock which has been repaired before it left the military. In the years between entering the civilian world and today further changes are possible. Rifles were used, cleaned in gangs, and randomized for many years before leaving government service.
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