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Beautiful stock!

I just visited an older gentleman friend of mine. He was showing me his Webley &Scott 20b that he shoots a lot. He grouse and woodcock hunts with it plus shoots lots of skeet with the gun (tournament guns turn him off). The head of the stock and grip is anything but straight in terms of the figure of the wood. I looked this gun over and couldn't find nary a crack anywhere. This gun has been shot hundteds of times. With this in mind, I think Kem will be in good shape with his Army & Navy boxlock and its' new and very pretty stock.

People forget that straight grained wood cracks also. If well inlet and not abused with extreme loads even good looking wood dan last a lifetime. And if not just pick another nice blank and redo it again. Life is too short to hunt with an ugly dog or plain stock. You might put up with an ugly girlfriend if she has a good place to hunt it cleans fish and game well but not an ugly gun.

Buzz...Glad your old friends W&S hasn't cracked after a several hundred rounds...lol..did he buy it new?
Just my morning before coffee joke...I know what you mean, of course Buzz, just the Hundreds of Rounds made me giggle, I;m sure there have been thousands down the pipes..
once again, no harm meant mate )

cheers
franc

There is nothing wrong with hunting over an ugly dog!

It might be a little like the ugly girlfriend - they "try a little harder."

I just realized I forgot to add my 2 cents on the subject at hand. That is a beautiful piece of wood. The long "cheeks" and light colored inlay are a very nice touch, but wow is that figure pretty.

CHAZ

Turd hounds and other ugly dogs take a lot of getting use to for most people. Same could be said for drops, a cross between two breeds like a pointer and setter. I had one when a boy and he was a fine hunting dog but looked like a dog with a hangover. Ugly took very little getting use to when you are a boy. He was second only to my quail pig in nose and working singles.

If it hunts, it can't be ugly. Hoof, that's a great looking dog! Just look at those smart eyes....they're telling you something!

I agree that straight grained wood will sometimes crack but not nearly as often or as soon as fancy or poorly grained wood will.

Straight grain in the head & wrist doesn't mean unattractive as there are very pretty stock blanks out there that have proper grain layout through the head & wrist but you need to look a little harder & usually pay more for these blanks.


It seems to me that gunmakers formerly gave a lot more attention to proper grain layout in selecting stock blanks than they do currently. I suspect this is due to the decreased availability & high cost of really good wood & pressure from customers that want spectacular wood & don't really care about proper grain layout or even know what it should look like.

Don't take this as knocking Kem1988's stock. It's a very pretty blank & the layout looks reasonable from the limited view provided by the pictures. Personally, I would prefer traditional carved drop points but that is up to the individual.

I thank very much for everyone taking their time to analyze and write comments about my new stock.

I am aware that if i use high gr loads which i never do or hit the rear of the stock by mistake it can crack. I am very careful about these issues,i have a Westley Richards with the similar stock and i frequently shoot with her max 30 gr loads and thanks god everything is fine for the last 5 years.

For this one, i have been searching for horn material for bone buttplate and finally found it and ordered it, still awaiting for it to arrive and will put that in the rear of the stock. I am pretty sure thats gonna help if i ever hit the rear of the stock.

All the best,

Kem

Hello again guys. I have received the horn material and shaped/mounted it on the stock. I took some pictures as i promised. Here is the new looks:








All the best!

Kemal