Some Mosin stocks are 1 solid piece of wood and some have a toe added to the stock.

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I have both types of wood stocks on my mosins. 1 stock has regular hard wood with a laminated toe on the butt stock. A guy told me that it is kinda rare on a Mosin. Is this true? Is there any value in having an odd made wood stock?
 
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At one point in some locations they laminated the second piece of wood to save costs on wood blanks by using a smaller piece of wood. Lots of mosins have this, and its also on the M44 carbines as well. I think it depended on how much wood they had at the time of making.


I don't believe it has any difference of value as they were originally issued this way.
 
Toe splicing can be found periodically throughout production on refurbished rifles and was probably done during refurbishment. It was standard practice in the post-war stock production. You'll see it most 1946+ M44s for example. Izhevsk carried on doing this for most stock blanks, including SKS.
 
It is normal on the SKS and Mosin rifle stocks. Even new production non refurb hardwood SKS stocks could have the piece added to the heel. It isn't a sure sign of refurbishment. They were simply making use of available materials and could source stocks from smaller trees or make use of otherwise marginal wood that was not wide enough. Same with the Mosin laminate. I have had a few with the added toe splice. They could use marginal sized leftover sections of laminate by adding the splice to the toe.
 
On an M91/30 a spliced toe is VERY common on refurb stocks made post-war.

The Finns, on the other hand, used toe splices before, during and after WW2. It's possible the Russians got the idea from the Finns. The idea was to be able to use smaller stock blanks and thereby make more efficient use of cured rifle stock wood.
 
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