A non-knife related question for Roger Linger

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Anthony Chaney

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I hope no one minds me asking a gun related question here. Please feel free to delete the post if it causes concern for anyone.

Roger,
I have an old Stevens-Savage Long Tom single shot 12-guage with a 36" barrell. I realize it ain't worth anything, but it is my favorite hunting gun. I have used it since I was 12 years old. Anyway, it has developed a severe crack on the side of the stock, right at the breech. I am now scared to shoot it. Does anyone make a replacement stock for it? If not, what are my options. I appreciate your time.

Thanks,
Anthony
 
Anthony, while we are waiting for Rodger (I'm sure someone does make a replacement for it, I just don't know who right now) You have several other choices. Almost all stock companies make Blanks that will work with a little fitting, on single shot shotguns.

The other immediate option, is to make a tracing of your stock, get a piece of wood large enough, and cut your own. I get a lot of my stock blanks from local Sawmills.

The mounting system for those stocks is so simple, anyone can drill the through hole and carve the rebate on the front of the stock. The rest is just sand and round.
 
I have seen some awesome shape vintage gun stocks on ebay go dirt cheap. Just a thought.
 
Anthony,

All of the above, especially any advise you can get from Peter Nap (Don), however I will suggest removing the butt stock from the shot gun and pinning the crack while using epoxy to bond both pin and crack. You should score the pin well so as to give a rough surface for the bonding material to embed and I also suggest using a thin wedge, such as a thin screw driver, to spread the crack so as to force plenty of bonding material into crack before removing the wedge. For the epoxy, I like Brownell's Original Glass Bedding Compound. Using thin blocks to keep a clamp or vise from indenting the stock wood, clamp the crack repair tight enough to close the crack seam. Leave clamped and untouched for several days before removing. Do not use off the shelf '5 minute' epoxies. Brownell's Original Glass Bedding Compound can be found at most good gun stores. Expect it to cost close to $20. Do not aggregate your mixture with the floss that comes with it. That will only keep the resulting repair crack seam wider in appearence.

To pin the crack you will need to drill through the stock at the correct diameter for the pin. I recommend a steel pin. If your crack is in such a place to cause pinning through checkering you are pretty much screwed on that, but as you indicated it is more of a work horse than a looker. Sometimes character is worth a lot too.

I would first repair the crack then pin the repaired area.

RL
 
Rlinger's method is right on the money. Back in the 60s the MN rifle team was issued M14s and one of those cracked in half through the magazine well and I fixed it this way using small threaded rod and Acraglas. Competition rifles really go through a workout and this one held together for the life of the barrel -- about 2 years when we were able to trade it for a replacment.
 
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