IIRC Springfield Armory among others was busy making long stocks for Krags and 1903s and 1917s during that period (G).

Just a long shot, but this conundrum reminds me somewhat of the old expressions for the disease syphilis; if the sufferer was English then he was suffering from the French pox and if he was French why then of course it was the English pox! Could be that this situation has operated similarly except in favor of braggin' rights instead of blamin' rights. Just a thought.
Regards, Joe

You can lead a man to logic but you can't make him think. NRA Life since 1976. God bless America!