Anyone know the provenance of these stocks?

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Bought this stripped for $5, curious if anyone knows why the metal tag over the painted rack number you usually see on old service rifles? Maybe a PD or NG rifle?
Tried Google, but haven't really found anything.
 
Looks like someone just being cute and using the old dog tag typewritter they had with a pop rivet to mark the guns. What does the tag say? X8374?
 
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Yep, x8374.

Tag is definitely vintage, not someone's arts and crafts project. Seller had a whole box of them, just called them 70's/80's vintage take offs. Every one had a different number.
 
charliesgrave said:
Yep, x8374.

Tag is definitely vintage, not someone's arts and crafts project. Seller had a whole box of them, just called them 70's/80's vintage take offs. Every one had a different number.
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I was thinking more like a Police Department's arts and crafts project. Just an inventory label.
 
Anyone know the PROVENANCE of these stocks?

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Sorry, don’t have anything constructive to add...just learndeded a new word!!! :D
 
I doubt it is US military. The way M16s are racked the tag can't be read so it does nothing for the armorer's inventory. Plus the Army at least takes a dim view of pop riveting stuff to the butt stock. It may cause a surface failure of the stock.
 
rufrdr said:
New one on me if it is GI. I never saw it in 20+ years of service and I imagine the Arms Room inspector for the unit IG inspection would've had a cow when seeing tags riveted to the butt.
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That's what I'd think albeit from a total amateur perspective. Doesn't look comfy for a cheek weld either.

I'm just passing on my googling.
 
rufrdr said:
New one on me if it is GI. I never saw it in 20+ years of service and I imagine the Arms Room inspector for the unit IG inspection would've had a cow when seeing tags riveted to the butt.
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THIS.

Arms room inventory requires the officer or NCO to visually confirm the SERIAL number on the receiver; RACK numbers stenciled on buttstocks were common in basic training arms rooms, but not in a line unit arms room. Rack numbers usually for internal arms room use and not for formal inventory/accountability.
 
Some Marine units did that dog tag riveting. I’ve heard of that before but yes instead of paint pen for the rack number/identifier for the individual rifleman assigned to it, they went full semi with that
 
Picked up a second one just because. This one was super dirty and I had to scrub with degreaser.
Shame there's no way to figure out what the numbers mean. For whatever reason, this one doesn't have a letter prefix.

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