It's not the original stock. I made a drawing of it and am going to cut it back to the wrist and do an armorer's repair.Hate to be the first, but, maybe a wall hanger might be its near future. Wood stocks can be iffy in finding the right fit for some of those old ones.
It says Hercules. It's made by Stevens. Parts aren't available, so I made an extractor for it.Post some pics of the receiver. Maybe we can figure out who it was made by. That scallop on the rear of the receiver screams early Stevens to me.
I'm going to get some Poplar and make a stock.
I didn't measure it. I made it slightly shorter than the original.Nice work.
By the way what length of pull did you make it for the kids?
Wow, looks great!I didn't measure it. I made it slightly shorter than the original.
It took learning to do auto body work and use a dolly and hammer to be able to learn the process of shaping wood with a rasp.Wow, looks great!
Im a decent metalworker, but wood is like voodoo mysticism to me.
Im always amazed when folks make awesome stuff out of trees. TREES!
That's funny, but accurate. Just keep taking a step back and look at it. Then go back to work.I made many stocks when I ran a small rural gunshop between 1973 and 2003.
A customer once asked me how do you know how to make a gunstock.
I replied, “Thats the easy part, you just cut away everything that does not look like a gun stock!”
From his expression, I don’t think that was the answer he was looking for.
But seriously, I’ll add this, after you have made a half dozen and you realize the hours of hand work that goes into it, you learn the cheapest part of the gunstock is the wood itself! That’s when I stopped using just any old piece of walnut and started using only semi fancy to fancy figured blanks. Some of the last ones I made came from customers own wood they supplied to me.