Age checks in stock

[varsity07840]

Repair suggestions would be welcome. Checks do not run through with of the butt.

[Stoner creek]

Old gun? Leave it if that’s all we’re looking at.

[t.caster]

I'd leave them if it's not a structural issue, like about to fall apart. Maybe just clean out the crack and squirt some super glue into it without getting it all over the stock. Then melt some beeswax into it and smooth off. Wouldn't want you to have to sand or scrape off any of the old finish.
If you want to do more surgery than that...it's your gun, so do what you want.

[Mike Brooks]

I don't see an issue.

[FALout]

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[Clint]

many people, today, live in houses that are air conditioned and heated with dry heat. I have seen air tight houses turn a lot of antique furniture into rickedy checked pieces in need of repair. In the old days rifles and furniture were typically made from  air dried lumber and the wood was allowed to breath with the seasons. A lot of folks with high end antiques have humidifiers to control how the interior wood work behaves and it actually makes breathing easier.

[Top Jaw]

If you were concerned about the one that runs to the end of the wood next to the butt plate, you could remove the butt plate and superglue the crack on the end that’s covered. Stand the gun muzzle down glue it wipe it with a dark rag try not to get any over the edge and that should stabilize it going forward if you’re concerned.

[Scota4570]

I have secured cracks with a perforated metal plate.  Make it wide as you can, make a slot. Epoxy it in the slot, bind the crack closed with surgical tubing.   This king of thing may also  respond to a piece of all thread under the butplate extension. 

IF it were an original I'd leave it alone.