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Laminated Stock History?

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berryboss	Laminated Stock History?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 14 (08/24/08 02:31 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None All of the laminated stocks I have seen look like new, or with minor handling dings. Were these stocks actually used during WW2, or were they put on when they were refurbished and put away for storage?
NotPC		#1	[-]
Posts: 5429 (08/24/08 09:57 AM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	As I understand it, laminated stocks were developed and used by the Soviets in about 1943. The Germans had used the technology and equipped weapons with them in about 1938. The bulk of the Soviet laminated stocks were made post WW II and added at the time of refurbishment. They were still relatively uncommon until they started showing up a few years ago with the imports from the Ukraine. Regards. Last Edited By: NotPC 08/24/08 05:07 PM. Edited 1 times.
eagle7		#2	[-]
Posts: 3522 (08/24/08 04:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The Soviets used laminated wood in fighter aircraft construction during the 1941 - 1943 timeframe, so they had the technology to manufacture plywood stocks early in the war. The Yak 1 and 3, LaGG 3, and MiG 3 incorporated plywood wing construction to conserve aluminum. The wood was bonded with phenol formaldehyde resin. As the Soviets transitioned to aluminum alloy aircraft wings in mid-1943 the wood lamination plants were probably freed up to make rifle stocks. BTW, I have seen a few PPSh41s dated from 1943 with laminated stocks....I don't know if these stocks were 1943 vintage or postwar replacements.
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Posts: 265 (11/03/08 02:46 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	1943 laminated Mosin stocks made for Izhevsk will have the stamped and folded sheet metal "half-liners" in the sling slots, or an unlined wood rear sling slot and a half-liner in the front. The pressed in oval sling slot escutcheons were used at Tula in '43, but Izhevsk didn't use them until 1944. I don't know if the laminated stocks with pressed in sling slot escutcheons and the dovetailed 2-piece buttstock were made in later '44, '45, or post-war, but earlier wartime ones have a solid 1 piece butt.

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