Shotgun Grades

[CelticArmory]

I have recently acquired a Remington SPT-58 that has seen much better days. I'm looking at possibly restoring it if I can do it within a certain spending limit. But in looking up stocks for it, I am confronted by a problem, I don't understand what the grade abbreviations mean in my parts catalog.

Can someone tell me what SC, ADL, BDL and TB grades mean?

Thanks
Marcus

 

[ArmedBear]

TB is Trap Grade B. Should be slightly upgraded walnut with a high comb.

ADL & BDL are regular field stocks with different finishes and/or whiteline buttplate or whatever. They've used these for years on all sorts of guns; I can't say what they mean on a 58.

SC, I'm not sure.

 

[rcmodel]

SC is Skeet Grade.

Like the TC Trap grade, better wood & finish then the ADL & BDL.

The TC Trap has a straighter & higher comb then the SC Skeet stock in keeping with trap shooting.

rc

 

[CelticArmory]

Cool, thanks. I'm wanting to restore it but without spending too much, so I'll want to look into the lower grades. This this was beat up. Some previous owner had really bet it up, never cleaned it and ended up trying to make a stock and fore grip that simply didn't work. I had to let it soak in Simple Green for 2 days and then spent most of this afternoon with a steel brush on all the internal parts to get the grime off. I'm going to have to take some parts to the polisher to finish with the little corrosion left. Now I have the receiver and barrel to do. It's missing several parts and the trigger housing is broken at the carrier latch. I'm looking at about $110 in parts alone not counting the stock set. I got it because a customer had picked it up at a yard sale for $75 and wanted the carrier fixed. I saw what had been done and explained he was looking at a minimum of $200 in parts and labor to make it functional and he just gave it to me.

Some people just shouldn't own guns.