Making a Trap Stock for a Remington 870

[TomG]

A little update on the stock:


The buttstock is finished and as you can see from the pic, she decided that she preferred the gloss finish over the satin because the stripes show up better. The final tally was 12 coats of oil, sanded and steel wooled between coats before the grain was fully filled. I also milled the spacers down to 1/32" and they look much more complimentary, getting the ultimate thumbs up from the customer. She also got a chance to shoot a few rounds of trap using the new stock and the results were encouraging. She had been averaging 15-16 hits out of 25 using borrowed guns and her first time with the new stock she scored two 19's, two 18's and a 15. The 15 was last so I suspect she was getting tired. It's pretty amazing the difference a properly fitted gun makes.

I've been out of town a lot lately so I haven't been able to work on the forestock, but I do have the design worked out and hope to start making more sawdust soon.

We found out this weekend that my sister in law recently drove to Missouri to have a custom stock made for her at Wenig Custom Gunstocks and dropped $2500 for basically the same thing I'm making for my wife. Maybe I should go into business.

Tom