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I would be careful taking the cheek piece completely off the stock. Check your sight picture down the rib of the barrel and be sure you aren't about to give yourself a big helping of "cast off" by doing so, and ruining your sight picture to the point that you are no longer aligned to the center of the barrel when you mount the gun. Typically, removing that thickness of wood will move your cheek over perhaps too far to still align with your target.
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Yes, be very careful with the cheek piece. Many stocks that have them have a bit of cast in the actual comb area. And removing them may dramatically alter your sight line. Also, some may "dish" in some on each side of the cheek piece which will not allow you the ability to get a true surface on the side of the stock once removed.
In regards to a curved butt. Nearly any hard plastic plate can be conformed to a curved surface, as well as many recoil pads. Silvers pads bend nicely to curved surfaces. And some other types as well.
I do not blane you for wanting to make the alterations to the stock for better fit and looks. Cheek pieces on doubles in North America is an undesirable feature (generally speaking). And i too would like to remove them from a european gun. But sometimes it just cannot be done given the lines you have to work with.
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You may think cheek pieces are "butt ugly" but they are part and parcel on German guns. If you shoot it well with the cheekpiece that may change when it's gone.
Learn to live with the cheekpiece or get a gun without one. But they are part of what makes German guns, German guns.
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OK. The cheek piece stays. It fits me well now that I have taken the comb down. And you are right about it being a German gun and it should have a cheek piece. Maybe if I shoot It well I will learn to enjoy it like an ugly dog that finds birds.
Tom C
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Some ultra light models of German guns do not have cheek pieces for that reason, to save weight, but most do.
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I suspect this gun came back after WWII because somebody names Aichele Mannheim scratched him name in big letters on the right side of the stock.
Tom C
�There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.� Aldo Leopold
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My Hammer 16Ga Ed Kettner has a cheekpiece and I shoot it very well. It feels like any other gunstock, and I agree it belongs in a European/German gun. BillK
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Watch out, unless you want a bunch of cast off the removal of that will increase the cast of a bunch. I have a Saur with a cheek piece and it fits me just like my custom K-80 stock. The K-80 stock has about .25 inch cast off. If I removed the cheek piece from the J P Saur it would have roughly .75 cast off.
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I would no more grind off a cheekpiece from an original cheekpiece gun than I would cut a leg off a three legged bird dog to make him look more symmetrical. Sorry, but that's just me.
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keep it simple and keep it safe...
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