2 1/2" DROP

[yip]

   TRYING TO BUILD A BUCKS COUNTY RIFLE I'VE 2"1/2" AT THE HEEL IS THIS OKAY

[Robby]

I would say no, but everyone is different.
Robby

[rich pierce]

Are you measuring drop from the barrel or the sights?  I’d say 2 and 3/4” is the minimum from the barrel line extended rearward.

[Bob Roller]

I am not a gun builder but some of these guns have stocks with so much drop they would have to be cut from a 14"wide board,
The long range muzzle loader I made was a precarve from Don Brown and was for his staking rifle with little drop and a shotgun butt plate.
What was the reasoning behind these stocks with extreme drop?A friend who made some locks and triggers in the mid 1970' was Sid Estep and he used the Robedeaux full scale drawings and built a "Hawken"copy that was within 1/32 of an inch on all dimensions and his father was the intended owner and after one shot he gave it back to Sid and said that "crooked stock"is a bad idea.Sid made another one without the drop shown in the drawing and a steel shotgun butt plate I gave him and that gun is still in the family.I shot it with a ball and 100 grains of 3fg and no problem from a poorly designed stock.Both these rifkers were 54 caliber with Bill Large Barrels.
Bob Roller

[yip]

 I FROM THE TOP  TOCK FROM A BLANK AND HAD A GUY DO MY BARREL CHANNEL AND R/R HOLE DONE, HE CUT THE STOCK I GUESS TO MUCH FROM THE TOP OF THE STOCK BEFORE CUTTING THE  BARREL CHANNEL AND LEFT ME WITH WHAT I GOT, AFTER ALL THE CHISELING AND FILING I MADE THE DISCOVERY, OH WELL LESSON LEARNED.

[alacran]

I just measured my Bucks County rifle interpretation's drop from the sights. It is 2 and 3/4". From the barrel line extended rearward, it is 2 and 5/8".
That is measured at the heel were the top of the curve meets the comb line. I scaled it from one of the Bucks rifles in the RCA book with an unknown builder.
After I made this rifle, the late Fred Lehto sent me butt tracings of his Bucks County rifles. They coincided almost exactly with my rifle.