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Well, sometimes it's both. My is beat to heck, AND it doesn't lock up tight at all. I use some business cards underneath the magazine plate. It still seems to shoot pretty decent.
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As long as they lock up tight am I the only one who likes the beat up dented stocks on my M1 Garands?
Well, sometimes it's both. My is beat to heck, AND it doesn't lock up tight at all. I use some business cards underneath the magazine plate. It still seems to shoot pretty decent.
I've done that same "tightening-up" mod using strips of wood veneer edging. The strips were cut, shaped, and glued to surface of the stock under the trigger guard/magazine plate, as well as on the back side of the trigger guard. If done right, you should need a rubber mallet to pound the trigger guard closed.
It's the single most effective "accurizing" mod you can do with a sloppy old stock, at least short of full match-prep glass bedding. I've done it on 6 of my M1s - '06s and .308s, full-size as well as to my 18" Tanker and 16" Mini-G. It definitely helped shrink groups.
I did discover, however, that it typically takes about 4- or 5-clips of shooting for the action to get "settled" or "seated" into the new (tighter) fit of the stock. Once seated though, the groups on target were consistently tighter and yielded a more consistent POI.
But be advised that after this accurizing method takes effect, you must always try to clean your M1
WITHOUT removing the action from the stock. Otherwise, each removal will slightly degrade and alter the tightness or "pressure" of the fit from the last time the action was "seated" in the stock when you put rounds down range.