Identifying unique SA stock
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Topic: Identifying unique SA stock
Posted By: lrrambo
Subject: Identifying unique SA stock
Date Posted: Feb 20 2026 at 6:33pm
| Ok, here's a good one. Just found and bought an SA marked buttstock. After I got home, removed the buttplate I found a hidden tube. Any ideas?? |
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Posted By: New2brass
Date Posted: Feb 20 2026 at 6:35pm
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possibly, any pictures? ------------- http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/forum/wtb-magazines_topic7446.html" rel="nofollow - My Wish List |
Posted By: lrrambo
Date Posted: Feb 20 2026 at 6:43pm
Working on it:   
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Posted By: lrrambo
Date Posted: Feb 20 2026 at 6:47pm
| Kinda different, as the milled wood plug is carved to exactly match the sling hole, very precise. With the plug in there is about a 4" hole of free space. Put the buttplate back on and I would've never know there is a tube under it. Drug stash, documents, map, IDK? The stock does not appear to have been ever used, as in a new M2 style buttstock. Honestly, I bought it for the IP/PM buttplate. |
Posted By: Jond41403
Date Posted: Feb 20 2026 at 10:57pm
| That is one of the neatest things I have ever seen or heard of! There had to have been a specific purpose for it but who knows what that was. I agree it was used to hide something small. It's just so nicely done. Does it look like an alteration that was done a long time ago or recently or can you tell? I mean a civilian could have done that at any time, But I guess could have been done by a soldier at some point but who knows like you say it appears unused. Head scratcher for sure |
Posted By: painter777
Date Posted: Feb 21 2026 at 1:29am
Dave's Not Here....  Maybe thinking 03 Springfield ... Ch-P777 ------------- Living Free because of those that serve..... |
Posted By: New2brass
Date Posted: Feb 21 2026 at 7:07am
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Interesting plug, it looks like it is cammed to the oiler? Is the bottom of the plug hollowed out? Is there something in the bottom of the hole or is that just the lighting than makes it look like something is in there? This is very interesting as it would take some skill and possibly decent jigs to drill out that stock, but there are certainty some creative people out there. In 1947 the Army Ground Forces Board at Fort Benning GA was experimenting with a combination tool and a way to incorporate it into the stock. Though probably not related, an interesting read. https://www.uscarbinecal30.com/Forum/nara-combination-tool_topic2563_post10052.html?KW=oiler#10052" rel="nofollow - https://www.uscarbinecal30.com/Forum/nara-combination-tool_topic2563_post10052.html?KW=oiler#10052" rel="nofollow - https://www.uscarbinecal30.com/Forum/nara-combination-tool_topic2563_post10052.html?KW=oiler#10052 ------------- http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/forum/wtb-magazines_topic7446.html" rel="nofollow - My Wish List |
Posted By: painter777
Date Posted: Feb 21 2026 at 10:58am
Great Link Dan  Hat off to the Sleep less one, 'Possibly a buffer mechanism for use with the grenade launchers.' or.. Reminds me of how we'd wrap loose fishing line or a trot line to carry. Cool find, Where did you find it? See no sign of a barrel band ever being on it. Sure makes you wonder if it was a prototype, test, at Aberdeen? Ch-P777 ------------- Living Free because of those that serve..... |
Posted By: welbytwo
Date Posted: Feb 21 2026 at 6:16pm
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pure drug smuggling by a military person or policeman carrying is my opinion |
Posted By: floydthecat
Date Posted: Feb 21 2026 at 7:30pm
Most people on here have no idea what a trot line is Charlie. Daddy made what we called frogs to wind our trot lines on.
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painter777 wrote:Posted By: Matt_X
Date Posted: Feb 22 2026 at 1:43pm
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Boring that straight in end grain is difficult. Even more of a trick to have done that after the stock was finished. I would think the easiest way to hold it in a fixture for that boring would be while it still had some square (flat) surfaces. OTH as I recall reading, Springfield eventually got some of the Richardson machines which could do some fancy stuff. |
Posted By: Jond41403
Date Posted: Feb 22 2026 at 9:06pm
We used to run our trotlines tied to several empty oil quart jugs. sometimes just let them float around and not tied to a main line at all. I remember we had the write our name and address on every single one haha. I miss the good old days when the old man was still around
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Posted By: Smokpole
Date Posted: Feb 23 2026 at 4:07pm
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I used trot lines for river fishing. Most of my fishing was lake fishing in good old Lake Erie... ------------- OGCA Life member NRA Life member Ashtabula Rod and Gun Life member |
Posted By: lrrambo
Date Posted: Mar 20 2026 at 4:59pm
| Wow! great ideas and suggestions. Glue left over from tape at the bayonet lug cutout. Other than the parts on it, the buttplate, screw and barrel band spring there is no indication of anything else being mounted or the stock was even used. Head scratcher for sure. Stock is marked SA so no telling what year it was made. really got it for the PM-IP new buttplate. Who knows? I may just build it with a chrome lined carbine barrel I have and a spare like new Inland receiver. of course I can leave the finish alone. No sandpaper clean up and using MinWax red mahogany stain. I'll post a few other photos for more details.Sadly the person who got me started years ago collecting carbines is long gone, he was a wealth of knowledge. Now as for myself, almost 75 this year. I digress, anyone else add their opinion, facts etc? Kinda fun trying to research this! |