My grandfather recently passed me down an old Winchester Model 50, 20ga. semi-auto shotgun and I am attempting to replace the stock.
The shotgun was built and purchased in 1960 for a whopping $98.00. It has been used and kept up for years and still functions like brand new. My grandfather, in a fit of brilliance, decided to saw off two inches of the stock for my grandmother to use it.
The shotgun is a gas operated semi-automatic and has a cylinder inside the stock that is about a half-inch diameter and about eight inches long, inside the tube is the recoil mechanism for the bolt. The recoil "rod" in the tube is connected to the bolt "somehow" (haven't figured it out yet) and held in firing action by a foot long spring and a threaded pin in the stock (looks like the cap on a whiskey flask) and can be adjusted for tension by threading it in and out.
Finding parts for a shotgun this old is next to impossible but I found a matching stock at a yard sale off an old Remington 870. Same length same size and shape and is bored correctly for the cylinder.
Problem is when I go to remove the stock it is held in place by a threaded aluminum sleeve around the tube. Apparently the rod inside the cylinder has a lip that will not let the sleeve come off to remove the stock, the sleeve unthreads and comes loose and allows the stock to be pulled free of the body and moved back about six inches but the sleeve will not move further and spins free and the stock will not fit around it to be removed and replaced.
If anyone here has messed around with these before, I could sure use some help getting it off. The lip on the rod is not held in place by any screw that I can see, it appears flush and smooth from the view I have. And I can't see how to remove the cylinder from the bolt itself, from all appearances it looks to be pressed in, I don't see any threads or pins on the bolt side. When the stock and sleeve are pulled back all the way I can see where the sleeve threads onto the cylinder but it is free of the threads and just caught in place on the gas operating rod.
Any help appreciated.
-Brandon-
The shotgun was built and purchased in 1960 for a whopping $98.00. It has been used and kept up for years and still functions like brand new. My grandfather, in a fit of brilliance, decided to saw off two inches of the stock for my grandmother to use it.
The shotgun is a gas operated semi-automatic and has a cylinder inside the stock that is about a half-inch diameter and about eight inches long, inside the tube is the recoil mechanism for the bolt. The recoil "rod" in the tube is connected to the bolt "somehow" (haven't figured it out yet) and held in firing action by a foot long spring and a threaded pin in the stock (looks like the cap on a whiskey flask) and can be adjusted for tension by threading it in and out.
Finding parts for a shotgun this old is next to impossible but I found a matching stock at a yard sale off an old Remington 870. Same length same size and shape and is bored correctly for the cylinder.
Problem is when I go to remove the stock it is held in place by a threaded aluminum sleeve around the tube. Apparently the rod inside the cylinder has a lip that will not let the sleeve come off to remove the stock, the sleeve unthreads and comes loose and allows the stock to be pulled free of the body and moved back about six inches but the sleeve will not move further and spins free and the stock will not fit around it to be removed and replaced.
If anyone here has messed around with these before, I could sure use some help getting it off. The lip on the rod is not held in place by any screw that I can see, it appears flush and smooth from the view I have. And I can't see how to remove the cylinder from the bolt itself, from all appearances it looks to be pressed in, I don't see any threads or pins on the bolt side. When the stock and sleeve are pulled back all the way I can see where the sleeve threads onto the cylinder but it is free of the threads and just caught in place on the gas operating rod.
Any help appreciated.
-Brandon-
