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For a Parker stock conversion to straight grip Galazan's sells a straight grip lower tang/trigger guard.

I bought a Galazan TG a couple years ago. It's bit smaller in the loop than either a fox or a Parker and definitely a different profile in most regards than a Parker. But it does have a long tang and is the shortest way to a long tang TG for a custom gun. The threaded stud seems to be a metric thread and needs to be replaced to match the gun.

Personally, I think welding on a longer tang and redressing the original is easier than fitting up a Galazan TG most of the time, especially if the orig TG is well made and attractively shaped. Most Fox SW TG's are crap IMO and replacing them is warranted for a nice custom gun.

I have looked at several guns that have had this conversion. Some are very well done and cannot be distinguished from an original straight stock. I saw one yesterday that was horrendous. The former pistol grip was obviously contoured up beyond the line of a straight grip and the result looked like a canoe paddle. I take that back. I have canoe paddles that are much more graceful.

The early Fox trigger guards have a flatter ,better shape to me than the later ones which are more bowed! Bobby

Does the stock fit you well? If it does you do not need to change the tangs. Tangs get bent when the stock needs to be a great deal higher at the comb. If you just raise the comb height and do not change the tangs you end up with what looks like a birds head. Too sharp a angle to have a pleasing profile.

Long trigger guards look nice but are not manditory. The nicer the gun the more likely that you will want to change the trigger guard. If your project gun is a low grade you may decide just to keep the old one and bend it into a straight line if it is bent now. You could have a extension welded on and shape it by hand in a day to a perfect long trigger guard. Rust blue a small part is very easy to do.

I would advoid the swan belly effect that I often see on straight stocks. Happens sometimes when a stock is bent to decrease total drop at heal. Looks like Dick Nixon's nose in profile. Some guns have this shape stock by design. I like nearly flat lines on my straight stocks. Makes the stock seem to flow into the gun like a fluid motion. Very graceful.

I wouldn't mind doing this to my Lefever, but it sounds like a job best left to experts. I see that Kearcher offers this. I don't see how the contour could be indistinguishable without using some epoxy or filler of some sort.

Not to mention, how does a standard pistol grip checkering pattern that goes down at an angle past the bottom edge of a straight grip get converted to a straight grip pattern that goes back parallel with the bottom of the stock? Especially if there's a deep border on the original pattern? I have to admit, this is lost on me.

I think all checkering is removed and redone. If you take a straight edge and place one edge at the toe of the stock and the other at the point near the end of the lower tang, where the pistol grip turns down, you can see a line that would be the finished straight stock conversion. I believe the whole lower line of the stock is raised to make this line work.

Okay........let me get this right! If the gun fits me(which it does) I can cut the grip off and not have to bend any tangs?

So the whole stock is actually made somewhat narrower top to bottom? I guess that makes sense. As for removing all the checkering, that seems like a lot of wood to remove, but maybe not.

Please forgive my checkering skills as it was a rush job.