Thanks. However, it's one of those good from far but far from good efforts. Trust me. I'd be the first to blow my trumpet if I thought it was justified.
This
is very basic. One cannot afford to miss any of these steps.
However if you plan to add a new recoil pad at a later stage,you will have to do this all over again.
I am glad you brought this up because neither Grumpy nor I like it. What's worse is that it makes the reach to pull too long for me. It's the only non-original bit on the gun. I'd love to have an original buttplate/pad and even found someone who had this very same gun (non-deluxe version) but he cannot find the plate he had removed in favour off a Pachmayr offering.
I have been looking for butt plates on the net from a shop that will mail it to me but am unable to find a suitable example and may have to settle for an English style orange butt pad. I have never done this before but this is the way I plan to do it.
1) Establish how much of the buttstock needs to be cut once the butt pad is at hand.
2) Mark the buttstock.
3) Put masking tape.
4) Make the cut.
5) Outline the cut end of the butt stock on buttpad and mark the angle of the toe as well.
6) Grind buttpad as close as possible to the outline before fixing to buttstock.
7) Fix buttstock and sand manually.
8 ) Keep fingers crossed whilst removing masking tape.
Grumpy, if you should read this, please let me know what you think of the above method.
No, I did not pattern it again. I couldn't make it to the range last Sunday, so decided to start working on the gun. I knew it would be the wrong thing to do but I am an impatient sod at times.
Mack The Knife
A very nicely showing step by step guide also..waiting to see the final product
) 