Gentlemen,
about 9 years ago I bought my wife as a pre-wedding wedding present a Winchester 101 20 bore (well the honeymoon was spent shooting in Scotland!!!). This stock was cut down to fit her.
I managed to find an almost new, full length stock to enable me to shoot the gun on the odd occasion. I am therefore fitting this stock to the 101, this is the question...
Contact is made between the stock and action in all the right places - i.e. top and bottom horns and the recoil surface of the tang piece. There is also the appropriate gap between the rounded point of the top tang and the stock.
However, there is only about 60% contact between the tang piece (between the top and bottom tangs) and the stock when the joint is smoked - is this sufficient? A friendly gunsmith said that 100% contact of these surfaces is virtually impossible to achieve unless glassbed was used, and that the stock would probably set back slightly over time so that the contact increased - any comments or advice would be gratefully received.
Jonty
