Tigerstriped stocks

[Goo98]

Had to look up blowtorch applied tiger striping, looks pretty gross!

 

[joe n]

 

[Claven2]

On early American long rifles, typically of the Lehman school of gun building, the tigerstriping was sometimes artist-applied using pigments. while not real, some specimens are quite beautiful.

 

[Magellann]

There are some pretty rifles in those pics.

 

[Nelson84]

Here's a pic of the handguard on my FNC1A1. I wish I could find a matching butt and pistol grip.
P.S. That's the PVS 502 NV that was issued with the FN. Back in the day it was the shnizzle.

That is a sweet rifle! What do you need to own one a restricted or prohibited Lisence?

 

[Smitsauce]

Prohib. and unfortunately, you can't really do much more with it than you are doing right now on your computer as they are PURE EVILLLLLLL...

Ian

 

[mrbeil]

Hard to believe my dad traded his l1a1 for an sks years ago before all this happened

 

[silverfoxdj]

Hard to believe my dad traded his l1a1 for an sks years ago before all this happened

No,,,, Really

 

[Claven2]

As I mentioned earlier, some of the "fake" tigrestriping looks pretty good. This one if "fake". The striping is painted on with an oil-based dye.

Here is another example.



The process:

 

[enefgee]

Hard to believe my dad traded his l1a1 for an sks years ago before all this happened

Harder still to believe your Dad got the better of the deal at the time - I bought an L1A1 with a new barrel in the early '90's for $150 at the time the best you could do on an SKS was $249, but you could get a real deal, new, Chinese Type 56 (AK) with under folder and 2 mags for $449.

 

[Claven2]

Yeah, that was back when AK's cost more than Colt A1 sporters. "The good old days". M14's were also in the sub-$200 range.

 

[mrbeil]

I believe it was a vet bring back north korean sks from the korean war too.. Shame it ended up getting confiscated and destroyed

 

[badbrass]

MP Marked

 

[badbrass]

WOW ! Thats all I can say! WOW

It's more common in maple, but high-end walnut also can be tigre-striped.

Here's a maple tigre-stripe stock on a trade rifle I built. It's real, not blow-torch applied.

 

[mrbeil]

Oh man, I wish I could afford a beautiful rifle like that. The CF don't pay the privates enough lol

 

[jbmauser]

Some gorgeous rifles posted here so far!

Here's a "RC" VZ 24.

Not a milsurp but still a classic rifle. Brno ZG-47 in 8x64 Brenneke.

 

[Tinman204]

Here's the stock my 1909 Finnish capture Mosin M91. Found it at a gunshow a couple of months ago and had to have it!!

 

[mrbeil]

How much did you end up paying for that m91 if you don't mind my asking

 

[CanadianAR]

A Portuguese Contract German K98K. Wonderfully stripped walnut in the right light. Sold this now though.

 

[TacticalFlash]

1916 No1 MkIII SMLE by BSA

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