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If you have come here looking for one of the cheap replacement stocks sold everywhere else then please exit this page now. The stocks I make or get from Wenigs are the closest you will find to USGI specs and do not use cheap wood. Prices start at $225.00 for standard grades of walnut fitted and finished to your rifle and I will only sell them to customers willing to send me their rifle so I can fit it. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Most standard grade stocks can usually be completed in 3 months or less but I make no guarantees. Fancy grades of wood commonly take a year or more. Suitable stock blanks for a semi auto 3 piece stock especially are not easy to get any more and once I do have a good blank in my hands I am not going to rush it. It will not do any good at all calling every day and asking if it's done yet so please don't start. Give me the time I need and you will be more than happy once you receive your rifle. I guarantee it.

I only care about attention to detail and achieving perfection in every stock I do. Not how many I can turn out in a month! 

Here we go!

Does this one get your interest?

Quality doesn't get any better than this. This is one of our fanciest grades of wood in Bastogne walnut. This stock and others like it are handmade one at a time to duplicate the shape and feel of an original M-1 Garand military stock but definitely not the looks! If you are looking to rebuild your rifle into an heirloom quality piece that you can hand down through the generations or for a presentation piece then one of these may be for you.

As you can see in the picture above I do not produce the ugly oversized stocks so commonly found today. Two of the above stocks are off the shelf commercially made and are no comparison to mine. My stocks are made to near exact GI dimensions and hand fitted to each individual rifle by me. In the past all of my stocks have been hand made with some of the inletting done on a Milling machine meant for steel working. That is where the precision comes from. The stock on the right is an English walnut stock I made for my M-14 match rifle and you can see the attention to detail in the steel bedding job. None of it shows when the rifle is in the stock and it fits like a glove. The biggest difference between my bedding jobs and those of other places are I will tell you to take your rifle apart for routine maintenance and cleaning. NOONE else will tell you that. This rifle uses a modified steel military stock liner. Normally they don't when I do a bedding job on one but I built this stock with a special purpose in mind. I carry it on my horse in a saddle scabbard all the time. It was meant to be abused.  

Here is the front ends of the same stocks showing the major differences in what I have to offer and the others. The one on the left and the middle one are just ugly if you ask me. These were advertised as a drop in fit but they are here because they were anything but. They are way too thick and do not fit properly. I don't sell drop ins. Mine are all made on precision machinery then hours and hours of hand filing, sanding and fitting. They don't come right off the duplicator to be dunked in a barrel of hot oil and be called done here!

Here is another commonly found problem on the other brands. The handguard is way oversized and jammed into the forend of the stock so bad that there is no way possible to expect any kind of accurate shooting from it. This picture also shows just how huge the stock is compared to the handguard. Military ones never looked like that.

Look at the picture below to see how it should look. Nice even gap between the stock and handguard, evenly sanded contour around the stock ferrule and definitely not oversized. Look at the base of the receiver where it contacts the wood on this picture. Notice the lack of any air space? This is how it should be fitted.

Here is another pet peeve of mine. Some companies don't even take the time to sand the wood at all down to the correct dimensions around the buttplate. The two on the right are mine in the final stages of completion. I leave just a very little bit of proud wood around the buttplate but it is even. This is the correct way to fit one. The one on the left is not.  

This is one of our fancy grade English walnut M-1 Garand stocks in the final sanding stage. These stocks are my favorite due to the highly contrasting grain and figure in them.

These stocks are my favorite for the serious M-14 or M1A match shooters out there. The M-14 M1A match stock features a little added length behind the receiver to maintain it's strength with a rear lugged receiver. Also a more vertical grip than original for a greatly enhanced feeling of comfort and control on those thousand yard prone shots. I leave the forend thicker on these too so you can get a firm grip with a shooting glove on and to help maximize the effect of the bedding. These don't use the military steel stock liners and must be bedded. 

Medium fancy English walnut M-14 stock

This one is mine!

So is this one.

This is my daily carry piece that I made myself a couple years ago. It's highly customized to fit me and to put rounds exactly where they should go.

My son may not be old enough to own his own pistol but he sure is good at making 1911 grips! These were the first ones he ever made and they are on my carry pistol. He made them from zebra wood and did the same type of oil finish that I use on rifle stocks. Everything about them is done by hand. He can make them thick for people with really big hands or standard thickness like mine. These grips are all custom fitted to your pistol just like anything else we do and are available in nearly any type of wood you could want

Price is $75.00 per set.

As you can see we don't take our job lightly making and fitting stocks here.

We don't use off the shelf factory made stocks. These are custom made one at a time to true military patterns using the best woods available. We put a lot of attention to detail into our stocks just as you would expect. Only the finest will get my stamp on it.

All we do is M-14 and M-1 Garand stocks. I am a specialist in them. While other companies can make stocks for hundreds of different rifles and not even know anything about the weapon that will go into it, I make stocks that I know inside and out. I know what makes these rifles work and how to do it right.  

We hand fit all of our stocks to the customers rifle to assure perfect fit and function then sight them in ourselves before shipping the rifle back.

All of our stocks come with an authentic style military oil finish for great looks and easy maintenance. Several coats are hand rubbed into the wood to assure it is sealed properly. It can either be left shiny or buffed to replicate the dull look of the original military stock. Your choice. Normally I do not stain the stocks because I want to enhance the grain, not hide it behind stain. If you do want yours stained I use alchohol based penetrating stain only and can do it at no extra cost.

Several grades and types of woods are available: American Walnut, French walnut, Claro walnut, Bastogne walnut, English walnut, Maple, Birch, Laminated birch and many others.

Grading on the blanks goes from standard, medium fancy, extra fancy and presentation grade. Prices for M-1 and M-14 stocks with matching handguards starts at about 225.00 for a standard grade hand fitted to your rifle and finished. Prices for the fancier grades are on a case by case basis depending on the wood.

Stocks are available for the following US service rifles:

M1 Garand and M-14.

All stock work is done on my own terms and time lines and requires a 50% nonrefundable down payment. I will not be rushed on them. Attention to detail and perfection are my only goals. I will start on the stock shortly after receiving your order and when it is ready for fitting to your rifle, we will call and ask that you send it to us. When all the final fitting and finishing is done we will call again and request the final payment before shipping your rifle back. Stock work can take anywhere from one month to a year in some cases depending on the type of wood mostly. Sometimes it takes me a while to find just the right blank for a customer. 

If you have a tired looking old military rifle and want to restore it or use it in the matches such as the John C. Garand match or the national matches then there is no better place to start than with a new, properly fitting stock. We can do all of the other match upgrades or restoration work you desire here also. Just make us a list of what you want done and send it to us. There is no better place to have it done!

QUALITY IS OUR TOP PRIORITY.  QUALITY WORK TAKES QUALITY TIME.

Take a look below at some of the other stocks we've done recently

Semi fancy M1 Garand stock American walnut

The rifle above is one of our semi fancy M1 Garand American walnut stocks

Standard grade M1 Garand JCG match stock

Standard grade M1 Garand stock

These are a few that are on the bench right now being completed.

From left to right

M1 Garand presentation grade Bastogne walnut stock, M1 Garand standard grade walnut, M1 Garand standard grade walnut, M1 Garand fancy grade English walnut, M-14 brown laminate birch, M-14 semi fancy grade English walnut, M-14 match target stock. 

Great news!

Due to very high demand for our M1 and M-14 stocks we are adding some new machinery to the shop this spring and will be able to make them a little faster. I have looked all over for a quality stock duplicator for months without any luck so I have decided to build my own now. It is turning out to be  a very large and heavy machine but I am only building it with two spindles to allow one stock at a time to be made. The weight and stiffness of it are like any other in the industry. That will nearly eliminate any cutter vibration or walking on the work piece. The other big difference in mine is the beaings I am using on the carriage. They are aerospace quality sealed liner bearings that cost a small fortune each and they are riding on two pieces of inch and a half hardened ground and polished steel alloy bar. I am using 6 of these bearings to support the cutterhead instead of the 2 or 4 on other machines. It's almost like a metalworking lathe duplicator with a built in mill. With the quality I demand from my work I'm not playing around as you can see. Tolerances of my new machine are being held to less than one thousandth of an inch. That's actually better than most new metal working machines.  

This is where I learned my trade. Battle group Alpha of the U.S. 7th fleet operating in the West Pacific. I served on three of the ships in this picture. The carrier and the battleship and the Frigate on the far left. Attention to detail was as much a part of my life then as it is now! 

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