If you were to send a barrel to Fred Miller, Mark Weader, or Dave Rase, and told them you wanted the butt shaped to a
specific pattern, and then inlet the barrel, giving you a certain amount of cast-off. The procedure they would follow would be to first shape the butt, then when they would lay out the barrel channel on an angle on the stock....moving the
muzzle to the right in order to give you right hand cast-off. Essentially, doing it this way, your cast-off starts right at the
breech end of the barrel. Now, even if you gave it 1/4" of cast off, do you think it would create problems in shaping in
the lock or wrist area of the gun? You have to be kidding, you would just go about building the gun. After all, when we
hack away with one of those cabinet makers rasps, do you really thing .020 of wood removal is a lot? If you are any kind
of gun builder, everything would just flow together. I don't think it would create any kind of problem. Talking about cast-off, how many of you have ever looked at and handled the Edward Marshall rifle? It has a lot of cast off, that's why it fits.
A lot of people who build copies of this gun do not put cast-off into it, and find that the comb is too high to get down on the sights. Something to think about..................Don