m40 trainer??

[keith smart]

Fantasy piece?
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=372446211

[Dave in Pa]

Big time Fantasy piece.Buy the gun not the story.Overpriced by 1000.00.I really like the original military marked pistol grip!!!!

[mack]

The excess stamping on the grip looks like one of those rifles sold in Californication by an unscrupulous dealer in the 80s. He was always stamping things into the wood like "M1 sniper" or "super-secret silly rifle for self-trained commandoes." The list went on and on of his silly, stupid markings, none of which were even remotely real but never kept people from paying HUGE prices to be swindled. I still see them around on the auction sites from time to time. His name escapes me at the moment.

[chuckindenver]

dreamer....

[ordnance]

Mack,

I think you are remembering the lovely hump work of the "WarDor" rifles. That was the nickname given to the overly-stamped rifle stocks produced by the late Warren Dorrill. I used to see a lot of them at the Great Western Show, usually with USMC and Marksmanship Team stamps in the wood.

[mack]

Thanks, Ordnance. That's the one I was thinking of. Dorrill sold so much stuff it has been seen east of the Sierras in Texas the last I heard. No understanding, other than monetary, as to a driving motivation for the creation of such monstrosities on otherwise perfectly good firearms.