Tunachaser
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when your gunsmith cuts to much off
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AJ
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Looks to me that he owes you a new stock!
LVSteve
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As seen on many a Mosin Nagant bought from Big 5.
AJ
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Big 5 still in business? It was 35 years ago that I was in one of their stores.
LVSteve
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Still selling overpriced items up here too.
Abbynormal
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Talk about circumcision!
Fishinfool
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If you don't want to go thru the time and effort of getting a wooden extension to seamlessly fit and match the rest of the stock - I might consider just mounting a basic wood extension block to make the length right, then put on one of those quality English lace on recoil pads. Hide the repair, and give your shotgun a little English flair.
Larry
Larry
Ivan the Butcher
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A friend of mine's wife is 4'9" tall and likes fine shotguns. When she finds a gun she likes, she has a new buttstock made to fit her. That's on unmolested stocks. On already butchered stocks, the replacement often increases the value by several thousand dollars. She was the first person I ever shot Sporting Clays with that who used an H&H double in 20 and a Boss in 28. (She also kicked my butt!) It is all my fault. I introduced her husband to the joys of 410ing. The next week they were at an auction and bought an old parker that had been cut down for a kid's gun and she loved it. The rest is history. She goes through high grade shotgun like crazy, she probably buys and sells 2 to 4 a year. She keeps 2 stock makers busy too!
Ivan
Ivan
Grafting a new back portion to the old stock is a somewhat common way to fix the 'cut too short' butt stock' or one that has alterations and splices added to it to fix dimensions.
The existing stock is cut, usually at an angle just at the rear of the checkering pattern at the grip and to match the checkering line(s) or border.
Then a new piece of wood that matches as closely as possible is attached or grafted to the original front section.
This saves doing all the inletting for the action though some trigger guard tang inlet is usually in the work.
The graft/attachment is sometimes done with a biscuit type joinery and glue. Others use a strong wood screw into the new blank from the orig piece along with a dowel and glue.
Once fitted, the back end piece can be shaped to what ever specs the shooter wants incl new LOP, cast off/on, etc.
The orig checkering pattern is redone and picked up and if the work is carefully done the checkering pattern lines will fall right along the joint which should be so carefully fitted as to be nearly invisible anyway.
Any difference in color or wood streaking can be easily matched betw the two pieces as it falls within the checkering pattern.
A Butt-Transplant for a gun.
I have another one to do now on a SBT Lindner . I think I have a decent piece of wood for the project. Just need the time.
The existing stock is cut, usually at an angle just at the rear of the checkering pattern at the grip and to match the checkering line(s) or border.
Then a new piece of wood that matches as closely as possible is attached or grafted to the original front section.
This saves doing all the inletting for the action though some trigger guard tang inlet is usually in the work.
The graft/attachment is sometimes done with a biscuit type joinery and glue. Others use a strong wood screw into the new blank from the orig piece along with a dowel and glue.
Once fitted, the back end piece can be shaped to what ever specs the shooter wants incl new LOP, cast off/on, etc.
The orig checkering pattern is redone and picked up and if the work is carefully done the checkering pattern lines will fall right along the joint which should be so carefully fitted as to be nearly invisible anyway.
Any difference in color or wood streaking can be easily matched betw the two pieces as it falls within the checkering pattern.
A Butt-Transplant for a gun.
I have another one to do now on a SBT Lindner . I think I have a decent piece of wood for the project. Just need the time.
You need a new gunsmith. And a new stock...
From what I see the back pad is slightly over-sized if you look at the white line spacer. I think it is a replacement and the block is clamped to provide an even pressure on the glue before it is hopefully, trimmed to match.
I think we're being spooffed.
I think we're being spooffed.
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AJ
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He owes you a new stock! The different in grains can only be hidden with paint.....
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Tunachaser
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I cut that out of a scrap piece of wood and sanded it to fit. I then cut 3/4" off for my daughter. Why would you think you are being spoofed?
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If you zoom in on the picture you'll see that there is no "white line spacer" - the white line is glue that squeezed out of the joint when it was clamped together.
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