Cloth Jungle stock.

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I think this is an interesting stock, although brutal looking it's well made. It has an inner and outer section, the outer section at least is made from resin impregnated cloth.

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https://imgur.com/s2gQrgb

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Is this the ones made for the VC to bury on the Ho Chi Mihn trail as insects ate the chuwood stocks? Usually these are mismatched half wood half brown fibre glass.
 
Vicar said:
I think this is an interesting stock, although brutal looking it's well made. It has an inner and outer section, the outer section at least is made from resin impregnated cloth.

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It's called fiberglass................. ever work on a boat hull?
 
I only ever saw one surplus Type 56 with the synthetic stock. As it happened, it was one of the stamped receiver variants. Probably a rare SKS variant. Rough condition.
Rifles and stocks were sold in quantity in the US, advertised as "jungle stocks".
I guess the Chinese, like most other nations, experimented with synthetics during the period.
 
I've got one of those. It has a fiberglass handguard.

It's standing empty in a corner right now. It's quite a bit lighter in color than the OP's.

Bought it from a CGNer.

There was a fellow at the Kamloops Gun Show, back about 20 years ago, from the US, who had a dozen or so of the stocks on his table. He wanted $75 each. All looked as new.

I asked him where he got them from. Century International out of Virginia was stripping them from Chinese Type 56 rifles, fitting them with Chu wood stocks, offshore and selling the fiberglass stocks for a premium in the US.
 
Thresher said:
Yes and canvas impregnated with resin (micarta) is a good example. However, that's not what these stocks are made out of. They're fibreglass/phenolic resin.
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I'm not an expert with fiberglass but I have worked briefly on fibreglass boat. I own a jungle stock and it doesn't look like fibreglass, more like fabric of some type. Could it be silk? I think in China back then silk might be cheaper than fiberglass.
 
I had two of these. Sold them both. Nothing that made me want to keep them. If I recall, I bought them from Keng's in Georgia in the '80s.
 
Unlike the pic in the link, mine is smooth, cant see the fabric on the exterior but with the action removed, I can see roughness, layers of fabric. two types, one is very fine. I wouldn't be surprised these stocks were made in different factories in the 70s so they used what ever material most available in that region.
 
I can dig it! I had no idea these even existed until recently. Unfortunately I don’t think they’re all that common anymore. I know I’d like to get my hands one.
 
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