Doug Mann is a good one to get advice from on the tang issue. Both, the upper and lower tangs should be slightly altered to get a nice line. A Fox has a curved upper tang that should be flattened and adjusted to an angle to allow the upper line of the grip to be parallel to the lower line of the grip. The lower line of the grip should be straight to the toe and with a butt height of what you perceive as correct (5 1/4", etc.?) , it should get you the correct comb height.
Doug may be able to explain it better. It may also be easier to layout the whole gun by drawing it full size on some kraft paper with the barrel rib as the primary datum and the line of the comb drawn as your secondary datum, destablish the LOP at the heel, put in the buttplate height at the desired pitch angle, the lower line of the stock then is just connecting the toe with a straight line to the lower tang at about where the rear trigger is. Then adjust the tang angles to fit. If the lower tang angle is adjusted, it likely will require bending the sears to move with the triggers.
Last edited by Chuck H; 12/13/13 05:44 AM.
