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T44 stock or not?

3K views 12 replies 8 participants last post by  Bill Ricca 
#1 ·
This stock listed on GB is either very rare or a total fake. Seller says it’s an early T44 stock, but yet it has no selector cutout and the cut by the bolt release looks typical of SAI stocks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the T44 select fire? I'm thinking this is a commercial stock with a fake DAS applied.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=296267608
 
#2 ·
Not a real t44 stock. Sai stock and handguard with dod stamp added. If i could just easily post them i would show a real one. I have had it since 1959
 
#5 ·
Few seem to recall, but during the late 1980s prior to Capt. Crunch, GI m14 stocks were getting hard to obtain and M14 butt plates were through the roof on prices. SAI produced quite a few M1A rifles in stocks that used the Garand butt plate. They were commercial stocks made by Fajen as I recall. We were paying as much as $45 to $50 for a M14 butt plate assembly, a lot at that time.
 
#6 ·
The stock is a fake.

The four or five original T44 stocks I have seen all came from NAS Crane, IN and they were all dark stained walnut and much slimmer than the fake shown. The fake does not have the age patina as well. T44 stocks tended to be rather thin walnut and actually a bit too thin for rough usage, IMO.

In the late 80’s/early 90’s, there was also a guy who came to the Southern CA gun shows with a lot of M1A stocks with Garand Buttplates that were new made, though I don’t think they were made by Fajen or Bishop. Some of his stocks were very high grade wood and were very nice, but his prices were so high that I don’t believe I ever ran across someone who actually bought the stocks. Still, his stocks were not meant to be fake T44’s and his stocks came closer than the fake in the link.
 
#9 ·
your right bill, i should have added e4, which is what i have.
mine came out of the h&r woodshop. has a slight flaw in it.
would have been burned up not for the fact i rescued it.
i do know the differece between them.
 
#11 ·
are there any markings on yours. Everybody assumes that the t44e4 were only sa.
no markings, never went through inspection. I know it was made at harich. There were plenty laying around that did not make it out of the wood shop.
 
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