Transitional stock

[thecapgunkid]

Anybody build on Pecatonica's Transitional Kentucky Stock?  I'm interested in one but the pic on the website doesn't give a good idea.  Thanks if you post a pic.

[Mike Brooks]

Anybody build on Pecatonica's Transitional Kentucky Stock?  I'm interested in one but the pic on the website doesn't give a good idea.  Thanks if you post a pic.

I have one comment on that stock. YIKES!

[Mike Lyons]

I’ve been looking long  and hard at Christian Springs guns for a couple years and that representation is off.  I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a rifle in any of my reference material or cd’s that covers that guns architecture.  If my current stock looked like that,  I’d have to scrap it. Maybe someone else can chime in but,  the sights are funky too.  I’m not bashing the company,  I like a lot of their products. Maybe it’s the actual elusive transitional rifle but,  I don’t think so.

[thecapgunkid]

Thanks, Mike.  Thanks, Mike.  All I am looking for is a couple of pics of the stock other than their website.  I am not into Sacrilege.

[M. E. Pering]

I really don't get what they base that shape on.  It almost looks like a Lehigh Valley bred with a Lancaster.... Not a good mix.  I have seen a picture or two of something similar, but never so extreme.  If someone handed me this stock, it would take me a while to figure out what to do with it.

[Curtis]

I more or less agree with all the above - especially with the Mikes - Yikes!  Not sure what that thing represents.

Curtis

[flinchrocket]

Knob Mountain has a transitional stock that looks identical. Perhaps it came from Fred Miller?

[rich pierce]

I agree it doesn’t represent any known early colonial rifles we know and looks funky. It can be hard to explain what looks wrong besides the buttplate. The wrist and comb transition seem wonky to me. Best thing is to compare to fine contemporary early pieces. I was looking for Dave Person’s recent Marshall rifle to add here but didn’t find it. Maybe these pix will help. I’d say the Pecatonica stock doesn’t flow.


Tommy G’s Isaac Berlin-styled rifle


Ed Wenger’s recent Moravian build


Mike Brooks Lion and Lamb


A contemporary Oerter

[Stoner creek]

You might consider that Chambers Edward Marshall kit. I’m sure that there’s room on the stock to add more step into the wrist if that’s the look you’re going for. I’ll second all of the comments on that one stock pictured at the top.

[thecapgunkid]

Thanks, Rich.  That's what I asked for help with.  I went through a Chambers Marshall kit, but Chambers stocks are all inletted for buttplate, lock, side plate and thimbles.

I am four to six weeks away from getting the stock and have already photo-shopped to check out to what extent  I can shorten the pull and re-shape some areas.

Some guys make exact replicas and some guys don't .  For the latter, there's a lot more fun in a build when you are not glued to re-creating exact architecture and museum piece characteristics, and I have paid Pecatonica to alter the pattern for the swamped .58 Barrel.