Making a Trap Stock for a Remington 870

[TomG]

I finally got enough courage up to start shaping the stock. The original plan was to use hand tools to do it, but the curly grain was difficult to work, so I ended up roughing it out with the belt sander. That was much easier although scary fast, so I had to exercise extreme caution to keep from going too far. Sorry I didn't take pics during the process, but I was so focused that I just plain forgot about it.

My plan is to dispense with the traditional white plastic spacer under the recoil pad and grip cap and go with bright pink. Not having much luck finding any though. The closest I've found is fluorescent pink acrylic, but it's translucent so I'm not sure how it would look next to the walnut.

It should be finished up enough this weekend for a trial run, if there aren't too many interruptions. I'll probably slap a coat of oil on it and let her shoot it to check the fit. After any re-shaping, comes about five coats of hand rubbed oil and then on to checkering.

The grip is way too fat for my wife's hand, so there is still a bit of shaping to do here to get it more slender.


I left the cheek rest on the long side until she can try it out. The gap shown here from the butt to the rear of the cheek rest will likely be longer once I see where her cheek rests when she shoulders the gun.


The wood is about 1/32" from the metal now so from here on in it'll be all handwork.


It still looks very fat here and will require quite a bit of reshaping where the cheek rest meets the grip. There is also a lot of fitting to do around the recoil pad.




The area behind the trigger still needs some work to make it align better with the bottom of the receiver.