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In my pursuit to become a proficient LC Smith smith, I have been gathering cheap parts to build a shooter gun completely rebuilt/refurbished by me. I have a FW 12 ga (This will be my rainy day wood duck gun) and a 16ga Fulton Special that are my 1st two patients to be on the table. Afterwards I may tackle a little higher end project.

I have a real nice field grade, original, LC stock. The problem seems to be the inletting is real close but the vertical face of the stock head and the inletting of the receiver tang do not match. It is as if the tang needs to be bent 1/8" to 3/16" upwards which will allow the stock to rotate up so that the vertical face of the stock head will sit flat against the vertical back of the receiver. I think I would rather destroy a $10.00 receiver than a $100.00 stock.

What will be my down side to carefully doing this?
Since I plan on CCH'ing the receiver I imagine heat would be my friend.

Thanks and please do not judge me yet

Travis

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I would anneal the whole thing then the tang will be soft enough to move. Just one word of caution....it can be very challenging to try to fit metal to a finished piece of wood.


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I agree. It's going to have to be annealed before you re-case it anyway.

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Travis,
When my German Gunsmith friend Walter Grass built a double gun or drilling, from a raw receiver, he always had to bend the tang out of the way to drill for the firing pins. Bending the tangs, therefore, is a common operation in building double guns, there is nothing to judge.
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May I suggest you give that song by Johnny Cash "One Piece at a Time" a good listen to especially the part "when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes where gone".

Just put my post down to Scouse humour.


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believe me that song comes to mind.

I am going to package up the whole parts and post some pics and progress of the project.

Thanks for the input

Travis


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