Why though, would anyone want to go back to the original stock, when they have that one?
well the gun was for a small girl . right now she is only 8 . while its hard to tell from the photos , the draw length of the new stock , is only 10 inchs vs the 13 inchs of the original stock .
Thus he wanted something that his granddaughter could shoot now , then as she out grew the stock she would be able to still use the rifle .
I shoot with this family often and what he didn’t count on was that both his granddaughter would take to shooting so much . Im thinking the older grandaughter will probably be wanting a full sized rifle in the next few years . So the younger one will end up with this one .
As such the original stock probably wont ever see the light of day again. unless its for their mother who only shoots now and then .
Some times people just want what they want ..
The rifle has 1 pin . I made a new under lug to replace the original keyed lug .
The barrel under rib was removed .. What I did was use the screw locations for the under rib and longer counter sunk screws so as to attach the forestock to the barrel ..
Again the customer wanted the gun to be completely capable of being put back into original condition . This meant no modifications to either the way the gun went together .
As such I could not cut dove tails .
So to put that gun back to original condition , one just takes out the barrel by pulling one pin and removing 2 screws . Pushes out the under lug and replaces it with the original . Removes the triggers and sets them back into the original stock . Then screw the original under rib back in place. Since I did not use the original RR pipes . They are still attached to the under rib ..
So basically it takes very little more to put the gun back to original then it would take to do a good cleaning
The plan was to use the lock, barrel and trigger at the very least. If the original stock can be profiled to suit and a brass butt plate and tg installed I'll be satisfied.
Well your not going to get a Tulle stock profile out of your existing stock Hanshi .
But you could add a brass butt plate . Doing so will shorten the draw though .
The other thing you could do is re shape the mortises and wrist so as to slim the gun down. Add a small patch box . Maybe even a pewter or Brass nose cap , Brass rr pipe and entry .
Your don’t have to stay with some big clunky CVA type nose cap either.
Here is a Gar Tail nose cap and a pewter Tang inlay that I did on a Traditions pistol revamp for another customer . You could do the same on your stock with very little work . Your tang should look just like the above photo
But anyway if you just stayed with the basics , you should be able to come up with something more along these lines , easily enough
While this stock is of English walnut , the customer wanted the very same basic profile and draw , as the original plastic stock. But with some bling and a couple personal items that had meaning to her .
As such in this case I had to hold more closely to the original stock lines and up around the breech .
IE more to what your talking about .
So using the original stock as a base , this is what I came up with
Here is a shot of the butt plate prior to final sanding of the stock and shaping of the toe
Now as to the RR pipe . Often times folks want a brass pipe , which never was available on these rifles . So what I do is cut the plastic pipe off and replace it with a brass one . This allows me to keep the original base with attachment and give the brass pipe that’s ask for
Before you go doing much though Hanshi , lay your stock out and trace it on paper . Do some playing with the drawings , let your imagination run . Once you like what you see on paper , then start applying those ideas to your existing stock . Remember the 7Ps .
Proper ,prior , planning , prevents ,!$@! , poor , performance
