Polish underfolder. Clip at the end of the stock and refurb or not

I also have a circle 11 1985 dated polish underfolder and it has the same thing, its there so when the stock is in the folded position in rests on the bottom lower front hand guard without the entire stock being up against it. Mine came into the US as a kit and I built it myself and the condition of the kit looked as if it had never been fired and sat in an arsenal until it was demilled. The wood was in pristine condition as well as all other parts. I've had mine for years, got it back when kits weren't that expensive. I put a small piece of thin rubber tubing around that part so it doesn't damage the wood hand guard when it hits the bottom of it when folding the stock

That little tab on the stock prevents the rest of it from digging into the wood handguard when folded. This was omitted on the Soviet Type 1 and soon was added on the Type 2, so they must have found out pretty fast that the additional manufacturing steps were less than the damage and replacement it caused without it. By the time other countries started AK production, that was a standard feature.

My WASR 1063 had the clip thing , and my Century milled 63D has it too.

Weaponmark said:

That little tab on the stock prevents the rest of it from digging into the wood handguard when folded. This was omitted on the Soviet Type 1 and soon was added on the Type 2, so they must have found out pretty fast that the additional manufacturing steps were less than the damage and replacement it caused without it. By the time other countries started AK production, that was a standard feature.

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I think as Weaponmark posted it was a kind of product improved upgrade. Just a quick glance in the safe at my AKs and AKMs show that my Yugo, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian all have that feature.