stock damage around barrel pins

[tom coffey]

No pics yet but I have a fullstock rifle that it appears someone has used a too big tool to remove the barrel pin with, more than once. I'm trying to figure out how best to fix the wood. What would be my options?

[TDM]

Very hard to say without photos of the degree of damage. But steaming the dented area might be an option. Need to see the photos.

[Goo]

Carefully cut out the damaged area and bond in a new piece of wood then drill holes for the pins. If the look of the repair is going to bother you then make the repairs look intentional, make them into inlays or metal escutcheons.

[Hungry Horse]

 Thats why escutcheon were invented.

Hungry Horse

[davec2]

Escutcheons would be an easy way to make the repair.  Or bone / horn...Or another not to obvious dark wood like ebony.  Pictures of the damage would be good....

[smylee grouch]

More adventurous would be to install keys/wedges. 

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

A few years ago, my brother Daryl had me do some restoration  work on his flintlock longrifle.  The maker had installed 3/32" pins and over the years of several different owners before Daryl, the wood around the pins was badly wallooned.  So I cut it down to  a half stock and pinned on a wooden rib, and replaced the pin behind the nose piece with a barrel slide/wedge, and escutcheon plates.  It was a pretty easy fix of an annoying problem.

[Pete G.]

Once you get the the area repaired, leave the pins alone.