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Ducks Rx is proposing a very modest 3/16" increase in the drop at heel by bending his stock. With such a small change, the risk of damage to the stock is minimal, and the change in pitch would be almost imperceptible. One could use a buttplate that was slightly tapered toward the top if the pitch had to remain precisely where it was.



Asking Ed Good to use a bit of common sense is like asking a blind man to win the Olympic Gold Medal in Trap Shooting... with a BB gun.

I'm confident all this depends on from which discipline you come from.
And what kind of shotguns you shoot.

ATA guys? Never met a stock alteration they didn't like.
Krieghoff and Kolar guys? A multitude of stocks ready to bolt on are available. And swaps are common.
Beretta 600 series'? A multitude available
Browning Citori series? Endless

When you start irreversibly altering old stocks on old guns, Well, it's a one way street.
And it gets expensive fast.
Since so many are short to start anyway, adding a tapered pad system, and bending the hand can get someone most of the way to their desired dimensions without file work.

a good wood man can scab on wood to the comb and to the butt wid out much too doo...

That's nonsense Ed.

nonsense only to those who do not wish to keep it simple, eliminate risk inherent in bending wood and of course keeping cost down...

plus, sanding and scabbing allows for lots of trial and error...not so bending...

ho hum...

Yep, it'll be fine

I'd only give the slightest creedence to Ed's comment if he had said something like, " After I essentially steal a gun from your widow, because she was scared of it, and I had convinced her of it's low value because the stock had been cut down,...Then I could scab somewhat matching pieces of walnut on the chopped stock, and make a little money off somebody."

Then I might agree, because well, "The money in guns is made on the buy, not the sell."

But there is no collectible shotgun, of average rarity, that sells for more with a scabbed upon stock, than one that was original.

so zapper, you cant respond to valid points made in my last post, so instead, you fantazie a negative scenario, featuring me cheating some widow...

like some others here, your resorting to personal attack, instead of discussing the topic of the thread, just weakens whatever argument you may choose to advance...

an drew, if you wish to participate, suggest you search your lifted photo files and come up with something that is more appropriate to this discussion...

like maybe this:

http://www.bkwebstergunsmith.com/monte-carlo-comb-conversion.html

You are right Ed. I needn't have painted such an unflattering depiction of the concept of "Buy low, sell High".