Can a matching 91/30 have a stock with an earlier year?

[Boi1901]

Hello, I have recently bought a 1938 Mosin Nagant 91/30 tula finnish capture and everything is matching accept the year on the 1936 Tula stock cartouche. Is this gun still matching or is the stock been changed?

[Junk Yard Dog]

If the rifle has 1938 on the barrel, and 1936 on the stock then the stock has been changed. This is normal, during refurbishments and repairs parts were commonly changed around and the ones with serial numbers force matched to the barrel number. Sometimes the Finn's did next to nothing except stamp a property mark like SA in a square, other times they did over the entire weapon.

[Boi1901]

Thanks for clearing that up for me.