03A3 Saved Sporterized C-Stock

[TomCulver]

Gentlemen:

Thought you might like to see how a friend's C-Stock was saved. He had a sporterized stock that was cut off above the strap band. He also came up with a piece of the front of another stock that had been more drastically sporterized, below the strap band.

Step-1
We used a blind-cut on the main stock and created a tab on the front piece so the front part of the stock would insert into the main stock about an inch and a half. We then covered the barrel with plastic wrap and JB welded everything together holding until cure with rubber basnds.

Step-2
Unable to make a true dove-tail, we opted to add a spline and later use 4 dowels to achieve tension between the 2 stock pieces.

Step-3
Once the JB Weld cured, we then created a channel to match both stocks and used JB Weld to insert the spine in-place. This was clamped in-place and set aside to cure. The last step was to drill 4 holes, offset so as to not compromise the thickness of the spline and JB Weld in-place.

We had fun and saved this poor stock.

Thanks for viewing.....

[Jeff L]

Nice job!

[danco101]

This is a great job! It would be a good idea for someone to market some Walnut pieced that are a closer match to the original cut outs, as these stocks seem to have the same diameter milling cuts inside, and sell them as repair kits with epoxie glue, I have done these repairs also, and there are a lot of cut down 03's out there, perhaps Brownells would get on board!

[Dick Hosmer]

Stock stretching is nothing new, but I've not seen the dowels before, clever idea. Nice job!

[mp_tx]

Very nice. I have a scant that needs the same fix. I have the pieces, but not the skill. Please let me know if you offer this as a service!

[bruce]

Excellent work. The use of dowels is a tried and true method for such repair/restoration. You did an excellent job. Sincerely. bruce.