Rich: The expensive and tricky part of a gunstock is where it is inletted for the barrel and receiver. A good woodworker should be able to glue and dowel, biscuit or screw a piece of walnut on to the existing cut-off stock and shape it to the right fit. It may not be as pretty as a complete new stock, but should be perfectly functional.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Rich Thomas via Mercedes Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:14 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Shotguns Thanks for the info. The problem is that he cut the stocks down pretty far and then had the pads put on so a longer pad would be like half the length of the whole stock, and would probably not work too well and would look weird. I'll have to look into it, let me know if you find out the place your dad uses. I'll do the googles and see what I can find. --R On 10/26/14 7:04 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > There are loads of companies that make replacement stocks. My dad has > one he likes which I can check on if you want. Boyds maybe? There are > some which offer rough blanks that you can finish as you want. > > A good option if the stock is only 2-3" too short is to get an > adjustable butt pad, unfortunately I can't think of the name of the > common high end one for trap shooters. Normally when installing one > you cut a couple inches off the stock since its a couple inches long. > A good gun shop that caters to trap shooters can help measure out what > you want for a stock. Rifle shops won't know as much about it. > > -Curt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > *To:* mercedes@okiebenz.com > *Sent:* Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:46 PM > *Subject:* Re: [MBZ] OT - Shotguns > > On a related aspect to all this -- my FIL shot traps or skeets or > whatever for a long time. When he got to where he could not shoot any > more (he had really bad juvenile rheumatoid arthritis for most of his > life, it finally got too hard to hold the gun and he wanted safety above > all), so he passed 2 of his guns on to us. One is a Browning Citori and > one I think is a Beretta, both very nice guns he had for a long time. > I'll have to get them out and see exactly what they are. > > He shortened up the stocks on them so he could use them better given his > arthritis, which pretty much makes them useless to anyone over about > 12yo. I have long arms so I would want a longer than stock stock, or > put one of those rubber ends on to extend a stock stock a bit. I was > thinking to redo the stocks somehow, either make new extensions (walnut, > which I have) or just buy some new ones to put on them. They still make > these guns so would it be easiest to contact the factory and see what > they could do? I would suppose a gun smith would do pretty much what I > would do wood-wise for some big money, and I am a fairly good > woodworker, so I could do a decent job on it myself but it would be a > fair amount of work. I could go to a gun shop and take some > measurements and photos and such to get it right. > > --R > > > On 10/26/14 6:23 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > > I'm going to look at the Mossberg 500 "All Purpose" and see how that > might work out. The range has rental guns, too, so that might be a > good chance to try a few different things out to see what would be best. > > > > One of my former business partners is a hard core grouse hunter - he > takes off for a hunt in North Dakota every year for two weeks. He has > a very expensive over/under 12 gauge shotgun made in England that was > $8,000 he uses. We got to shoot it on a regular basis, and while it > was nice, it did the same thing a much less expensive shotgun did.... > > > > Thanks to all for the info and suggestions. > > > > Dan > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Oct 26, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > >> > >> I'd stick with 12 gage as long as the gun "fits" the shooter. > Everything is > >> harder to find and often more expensive in 20 gage. Lower recoil > target > >> shells are readily available in 12 gage. I think a pump gun is more > >> versatile (and less expensive) than a side-by-side or over-under > >> configuration. As others have mentioned, a basic pump gun (e.g. > Remington > >> 870 or Mossberg 500 series) can be had for a few hundred dollars, > new. But > >> the sky is the limit in fancy guns. My neighbor (competes at > Nationals) has > >> guns costing over $10K. > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, > those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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