M305 mystery wood?

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OK, what gives...I am reading a lot about M305/M14s owners throwing out (or selling cheap) the Norinco mystery wood that comes stock with the M305/M14s and replacing it with fiberglas or USGI harwood stocks.

Is this so-called mystery wood so bad that it needs to be scrapped or is it a matter or personal taste?

Just wondering what I'll be up against when Marstar re-stocks the M305...;)

Thanks very much
 
Not sure the M305 is a precision rifle..........:)
The wood is terribly soft, typical Chu wood as found on everything chinese.....that's why I dumped it anyway.
 
Hitzy said:
Not sure the M305 is a precision rifle..........:)
The wood is terribly soft, typical Chu wood as found on everything chinese.....that's why I dumped it anyway.
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Chu is a species of Catalpa. M305 uses "Philipines mahogany" (not a true mahogany, actually an asian tropical cedar - red luan) afaik.
 
The factory stock is a REALLY soft wood.

This will hamper peak accuracy as the recesses where the reciever lugs sit will deform over time, and the trigger lock up into the reciever will get looser as the wood compresses.

SKBY.
 
I tried to clean the oil (smells like it is creosote but who knows). For the most part it came out well but the butt won't come clean and remains very soft. Not too big a deal as I have had a USGI F.G. stock for a while, but I was thinking of turning the wood one into a folder.
 
The wood isn't bad looking once cleaned up but it's very soft I had to apply Devcon under the butt plate to keep the wood from collapsing under the butt plate
Bob
 
There is a gunsmith in Sask that has a stock making machine. He made a swede mauser stock for a friend, it is a perfect job. You give him your old stock and the machine copies it exactly. You choose the wood.
 
Flobalob said:
There is a gunsmith in Sask that has a stock making machine. He made a swede mauser stock for a friend, it is a perfect job. You give him your old stock and the machine copies it exactly. You choose the wood.
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yeah very cool. Do you have an email for the gunsmith?
 
That chu wood has a funny smell too. You go to handle your M14 (or 305) and the smell stays on your hands for a while. Does the smell come disappear when you rub the linseed oil into it? I never did anything with the wood stock because I switched to a GI.
 
300Spartans said:
Does the smell come disappear when you rub the linseed oil into it?
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No. Or at least, mine didn't. Its an aromatic cedar, so the scent stays. Maybe if you sealed it with an expoxy finish, but tung oil didn't make a difference.
 
Here is the best a buddy of mine could do with the Norc wood. It has found a new home after it was replaced by a Skullboy masterpiece.

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platnumbob said:
that actaully looks pretty cool, what did he do to it to get it to look like that?
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Well the wood had that black stripes on it already. It was actually darker. It was sanded and varnished.

Here is the original woodstock

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Flobalob said:
There is a gunsmith in Sask that has a stock making machine. He made a swede mauser stock for a friend, it is a perfect job. You give him your old stock and the machine copies it exactly. You choose the wood.
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a wood CNC eh
those are pritty sweet i know a guy who has one but he uses it for carveings.
ttyal
Riley
 
Carey runs M&S Stocking out of Leader Sask. Had some gunsmithing done several years back. It took way to long but the duplicating of gun stocks goes very fast, thats his main business now I think. Use to have large ad's in the Access to Firearms...Bob
 
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