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Posted: 8/1/2026 10:25:24 PM EDT
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Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File Measures 33” OAL. Garage sale find |
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Attached File Attached File I found this at a garage sale. Took a chance. |
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Looks pretty good. It's getting harder to find good gun stuff at garage sales. Even the regular Mil stuff that isn't gun related is drying up. |
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I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
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Thank you. I thought it was walnut but not 100 percent. Not many dings on stock. The minor ones that are present might steam out. I would like to clean it up ever so slightly as to not take away any marks or character. I’ve seen some post about putting them in a dishwasher for an initial cleaning. Not sure I’m a fan of that. |
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Originally Posted By tacklenut: Thank you. I thought it was walnut but not 100 percent. Not many dings on stock. The minor ones that are present might steam out. I would like to clean it up ever so slightly as to not take away any marks or character. I’ve seen some post about putting them in a dishwasher for an initial cleaning. Not sure I’m a fan of that. I’ve used Walt Kuleck’s method, carefully and judiciously, to clean up oil-soaked M1, M14, Mauser, Enfield and BM59 stocks prior to refinishing: https://ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-375948/ Here’s some info you may be able to use to ID your stock: https://ar15.com/forums/armory/Help_identifying__M14_stock_manufacture_i_e___TRW__Handamp_R__Springfield__Winchester/6-372711/ |
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Originally Posted By tacklenut: Thank you. I thought it was walnut but not 100 percent. Not many dings on stock. The minor ones that are present might steam out. I would like to clean it up ever so slightly as to not take away any marks or character. I’ve seen some post about putting them in a dishwasher for an initial cleaning. Not sure I’m a fan of that. I am not a fan of the dishwasher. Putting anything in there that will deposit hydrocarbons all over the items you use to eat is a no-go for me. |
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Originally Posted By ihon: These are going to become popular if/when the CMP releases the M14 for sale. I have a few spares for my Chinese M14S. The factory stock on those were mediocre at best. I've got a couple M14 stocks, [wood and FG] Garand stocks and fat M1 Carbine stocks stashed away simply because they used to cheap as heck just like lots of Milsurp stuff. I still look for the more svelte M1 carbine stocks for cheap when I'm out and about but they are pretty scarce. It'll be interesting to see if they come with wood or fiberglass stocks. |
Liberals are a curious mix of communism and fascism, they want to destroy you but want to use your own money to do it.
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
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Originally Posted By SSG-69: I’ve used Walt Kuleck’s method, carefully and judiciously, to clean up oil-soaked M1, M14, Mauser, Enfield and BM59 stocks prior to refinishing: https://ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-375948/ Here’s some info you may be able to use to ID your stock: https://ar15.com/forums/armory/Help_identifying__M14_stock_manufacture_i_e___TRW__Handamp_R__Springfield__Winchester/6-372711/ Good read for sure. |
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Originally Posted By fxntime: I've got a couple M14 stocks, [wood and FG] Garand stocks and fat M1 Carbine stocks stashed away simply because they used to cheap as heck just like lots of Milsurp stuff. I still look for the more svelte M1 carbine stocks for cheap when I'm out and about but they are pretty scarce. It'll be interesting to see if they come with wood or fiberglass stocks. Great Deal 👍 I can't believe how expensive old Garand, Carbine, M14 & M16 stock's/HG's have become, they used to be piled up like cord wood & cost almost nothing! IMO The old brown GI fiberglass M14 stocks still shoot the best, I think i paid $14 each for the last couple I purchased from Orion7 (local to me) around 01. |
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Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I am not a fan of the dishwasher. Putting anything in there that will deposit hydrocarbons all over the items you use to eat is a no-go for me. Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Originally Posted By tacklenut: Thank you. I thought it was walnut but not 100 percent. Not many dings on stock. The minor ones that are present might steam out. I would like to clean it up ever so slightly as to not take away any marks or character. I’ve seen some post about putting them in a dishwasher for an initial cleaning. Not sure I’m a fan of that. I am not a fan of the dishwasher. Putting anything in there that will deposit hydrocarbons all over the items you use to eat is a no-go for me. I don't know about you, but I put soap in my dishwasher, so it cleans itself. I've run several stocks through the dishwasher, it quickly removes decades of grime. If you have a sanitize setting, it steams out small dents, and the stock comes out warm so you can rub your oil of choice in immediately after it comes out. I put the BLO outside in the sun ahead of time to get the oil warm as well. YMMV. |
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Originally Posted By backbencher: I don't know about you, but I put soap in my dishwasher, so it cleans itself. I've run several stocks through the dishwasher, it quickly removes decades of grime. If you have a sanitize setting, it steams out small dents, and the stock comes out warm so you can rub your oil of choice in immediately after it comes out. I put the BLO outside in the sun ahead of time to get the oil warm as well. YMMV. Originally Posted By backbencher: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Originally Posted By tacklenut: Thank you. I thought it was walnut but not 100 percent. Not many dings on stock. The minor ones that are present might steam out. I would like to clean it up ever so slightly as to not take away any marks or character. I’ve seen some post about putting them in a dishwasher for an initial cleaning. Not sure I’m a fan of that. I am not a fan of the dishwasher. Putting anything in there that will deposit hydrocarbons all over the items you use to eat is a no-go for me. I don't know about you, but I put soap in my dishwasher, so it cleans itself. I've run several stocks through the dishwasher, it quickly removes decades of grime. If you have a sanitize setting, it steams out small dents, and the stock comes out warm so you can rub your oil of choice in immediately after it comes out. I put the BLO outside in the sun ahead of time to get the oil warm as well. YMMV. Yes but still, soap doesnt always get all the oil and grease completely washed away. Dishwasher soap isn't designed to wash away heavy hydrocarbons. You do you but that is not something I am willing to do. |
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“In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton
LETS GO REDWINGS!!!
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“In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton
LETS GO REDWINGS!!!
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Originally Posted By garr: Great Deal 👍 I can't believe how expensive old Garand, Carbine, M14 & M16 stock's/HG's have become, they used to be piled up like cord wood & cost almost nothing! IMO The old brown GI fiberglass M14 stocks still shoot the best, I think i paid $14 each for the last couple I purchased from Orion7 (local to me) around 01. Originally Posted By garr: Originally Posted By fxntime: I've got a couple M14 stocks, [wood and FG] Garand stocks and fat M1 Carbine stocks stashed away simply because they used to cheap as heck just like lots of Milsurp stuff. I still look for the more svelte M1 carbine stocks for cheap when I'm out and about but they are pretty scarce. It'll be interesting to see if they come with wood or fiberglass stocks. Great Deal 👍 I can't believe how expensive old Garand, Carbine, M14 & M16 stock's/HG's have become, they used to be piled up like cord wood & cost almost nothing! IMO The old brown GI fiberglass M14 stocks still shoot the best, I think i paid $14 each for the last couple I purchased from Orion7 (local to me) around 01. That is around the time I snagged most of my stocks. Same for the M16 and A1 complete uppers that were surplussed out. |
Liberals are a curious mix of communism and fascism, they want to destroy you but want to use your own money to do it.
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
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M14 stocks are $100 for beaters anymore. Nicer ones are closer to $150-200. I'm lucky in that I got a few that came with trades I got years ago. In fact, I have about 24 handguards that I got for $10 shipped. It was literally a large USPS flat rate box filled with as many as could fit. They are missing the metal clip, but the actual handguards are in good shape. I was literally giving them away for a while as I only needed a few to replace the one on my rifle (it removed a Sage stock to sell separately). I think the golden age of surplus is gone, but hope I am wrong. I used to ask my dad about surplus parts & guns when he was growing up in the 1950's. He said don't be fooled by the old ads with cheap prices. While it seems cheap, he didn't have the disposable income that I have. So he said in his opinion, it was better in the 1990's into the 2000's. The only thing better was you could get DEWATs (deactivated war trophies), both registered and not. The regs were pretty loose, so a deactivated machine gun would literally be a rod welded into the chamber for a MG. |
| Fred's business is still around. Fred's keeps the nicer stocks and still selling them. Not cheap anymore either. The owner is semi-retired and using the money from the remaining stocks and accessories sale as part hobby and part retirement income. The rest of the inventory was sold to Treeline. |
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Originally Posted By ihon: M14 stocks are $100 for beaters anymore. Nicer ones are closer to $150-200. I'm lucky in that I got a few that came with trades I got years ago. In fact, I have about 24 handguards that I got for $10 shipped. It was literally a large USPS flat rate box filled with as many as could fit. They are missing the metal clip, but the actual handguards are in good shape. I was literally giving them away for a while as I only needed a few to replace the one on my rifle (it removed a Sage stock to sell separately). I think the golden age of surplus is gone, but hope I am wrong. I used to ask my dad about surplus parts & guns when he was growing up in the 1950's. He said don't be fooled by the old ads with cheap prices. While it seems cheap, he didn't have the disposable income that I have. So he said in his opinion, it was better in the 1990's into the 2000's. The only thing better was you could get DEWATs (deactivated war trophies), both registered and not. The regs were pretty loose, so a deactivated machine gun would literally be a rod welded into the chamber for a MG. Ha! I bought a box of those handgaurds too. iirc it was the honcho at the old M14 forum that was selling them. Mixed bag on condition and quality. Several shiny brown ones suitable for immediate use and then the rest were the duller brown with glass maybe showing a bit (as originally made i believe). Those were fine as I intended a couple fiberglass stock and handgaurds camo pattern sets. Perfect for painting as their less smooth surface is apt to hold paint better. |
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Originally Posted By garr: Does anyone remember "Fred's M14 Stocks" The guy had a warehouse full of them! Yep, he ghosted me when I returned a stock that was missing wood on one side and had crayon pencil markings bad written on the stock. They said send it in for examination and replacement so I did. Lady kept taking messages but nothing ever came my way. In my book he’s a thief and I’m still out around a C note. |
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The walnut stock in the OP looks to be the 1961 design for the first M14 NM rifles. The features whisper "H. Sacks & Sons, Inc. (Brookline, MA)" to me. H. Sacks & Sons, Inc. was a furniture manufacturer in the 1960s but made M14, M14 NM, and M14A1 rifle stocks for Uncle Sam, specifically, the U. S. governnment Springfield Armory and Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. If the very front end of the stock is the same width as the ferrule, then it is a 1959 design M14 stock. If it's a skosh wider, it's the 1961 design M14 NM stock. If you remove the butt plate and see a letter "S" under a half-lozenge, that is the marking for H. Sacks & Sons. Not all of its stocks were stamped with the manufacturer marking. HTH |
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Originally Posted By Different: The walnut stock in the OP looks to be the 1961 design for the first M14 NM rifles. The features whisper "H. Sacks & Sons, Inc. (Brookline, MA)" to me. H. Sacks & Sons, Inc. was a furniture manufacturer in the 1960s but made M14, M14 NM, and M14A1 rifle stocks for Uncle Sam, specifically, the U. S. governnment Springfield Armory and Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. If the very front end of the stock is the same width as the ferrule, then it is a 1959 design M14 stock. If it's a skosh wider, it's the 1961 design M14 NM stock. If you remove the butt plate and see a letter "S" under a half-lozenge, that is the marking for H. Sacks & Sons. Not all of its stocks were stamped with the manufacturer marking. HTH Nice to see you still around! |
Liberals are a curious mix of communism and fascism, they want to destroy you but want to use your own money to do it.
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
I'm getting down to the last box, the others have all been destroyed...
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Originally Posted By garr: Does anyone remember "Fred's M14 Stocks" The guy had a warehouse full of them! |
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