![]() This allowed the stocks to be made from shorter pieces of wood and the added benefit of stiffening the wood from warpage that a stock made of a single piece of wood can have in extreme cold weather. The artic birch stock has some nice figure, but it does have a crack at the wrist that was professionally repaired by my stock guy. all of my Valmet 'VTK' stocks have toe splices.so perhaps they made both types while VTK made only toe spliced stocks. It has no stock splice at the toe and the other 2 are also SAKO made, both 1942 dated. One stock is a "straight stock" SAKO made M-39, of the first 6,000 made, the pistol gripped came at 6,001. Because of this, the stock M-39 could never be suppressed because it produced a second supersonic crack after the bullet leaves the barrel. Since we began our M39 rifle project we have encountered a number of M39 rifles that we have sorted out of our primary inventory due to the rifles having cracked stocks and / or rust present on the rifle. Click Here for the Sako Manufactured Finnish M39 Page. Click Here for the VKT Manufactured Finnish M39 Page. I have 14 wartime stocked M-39's, 11 have toe splices. Finnish M39 Rifles With Cracked Stocks And Surface Rust. Without the pressure of war, they could pick and choose wood again.Īfter the war, many M-39's were restocked. Most post war stocks do not have toe splices. It is not a repair, but a way of making the most from a little at hand.ĪLL M-39's have a mid stock splice, round tipped untill 1944, Sharp tip splices after '44 (Finland exited the war) and square splices from '46 onward. The artic birch stock has some nice figure, but it does have a crack at the wrist that was professionally repaired by my stock guy. This M39 is a solid example with matching parts and a good bore that I had my gunsmith slug. older recycled M91 stocks which tended to crack under heavy bayonet use. The toe splice is part of the manufacturing process, just like the splice in the forend of the stock, under the rear sight. The M39's accuracy rivaled the best of other WWII battle rifles. WWII Finnish Hackman Mosin Bayonet & Scabbard fits M27 M28 M28/30 M39 Rifles.
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