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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Walter45Auto on August 29, 2009, 08:49:44 PM
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I have a Chinese coach gun that needs a new stock. (Shut up! I got my $200 out of it and it still shoots good enough. They just put soft wood on the things.) I'm thinking it may be cheaper to make it myself. Anyone experienced in this area got any tips for me?
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I can't help you with making one but have you looked for a replacement at www.sarcoinc.com ?
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You cant get one. You call Century International Arms to ask if you can get a stock and possibly a set of replacement screws, and they tell you "Well.... Well.... Well...... We don't sell parts." >:( So I have to make it or have it made. I may call again Monday and ask, but since I've called before, I don't think I'll get much help. I think I need to start buying Stoeger or Remington coach guns, when I can afford it. Maybe it'd be easier to find parts. That's part of why I put my Charles Daly pump on consignment.
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If the one you have is a copy of something Sarco may have an original stock. +10 on Stoeger or Remington.
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I really don't know of anything it's a direct copy of.... I need to like start a savings account till I can afford a better coach gun. LOL.
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Anybody ever made their own stock???
Chunk up onions, celery and carrots into a pot.......
;D
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Wouldn't that rust my gun??? ;D
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Wouldn't that rust my gun??? ;D
Not if it was the almighty Block! ::)
;D
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Most custom stock companies that I have seen on line have rough blanks that you can order and finish to fit what you have, whether you go that route or just start grinding on a piece of plank, it will mostly be eyeball work except for drilling the hole the full length of the stock for the screw that holds it on. What I would do is get the part that mates to the receiver done first, then work back from there.
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Its not fun unless you love wood working. If you have enough of the old stock to get the dimensions where the stock fits into the receiver, write those down, then put the old stock against a stock blank and trace it out. remove the big pieces with a saw until you have a rough outline. Then use a big drum sander to bring to much closer outline. Mark your center line all the way around end to end, pencil the shape on the ends, then use a belt sander with 60 grit to start shaping. Once you get close, start on the receiver to stock fit, go slow, don't remove too much, this is usually done with a wood chisel to start, if you have access to milling machine then that's the way I would go. The main thing at this point is staying centered, check your side wood removal often against the center line. Once you can get the wood close enough it will enter the receiver a little, use a soft mallet and kind of pound it into place, not hard, but hard enough it will mark the places you will need to remove more wood until you have a complete fit. Mark your screw holes, remove stock and drill, mindful of the original angle. Sand and finish.
I would check with your local gunshops and ask if they have any take off stocks you could go through, 1 might be close enough to save a lot of work, my local gunstore has a barrel full of them.
Good luck.
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I did a long time ago--like when I was 9 or 10 and broke my red ryder. The advice already given is good. PATIENCE! Fitting the stock into the receiver takes time, but now you can use epoxy bedding and cheat.
Maybe you could re-bed the existing stock until you save your $$$.
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If it split you could wrap it with fiberglass, I've seen Winchesters in museums that Indians fixed by wraping with raw hide and letting it shrink, if that help fiberglass ought to.
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Great American Gunstock Company here in Yuba City can make stocks for just about every application. You may want to check them out.
3420 Industrial Drive
Yuba City, CA 95993
Phone: 530-671-4570
Fax: 530-671-3906
Gunstock Hotline:
1-800-784-GUNS(4867)
E-mail: sales@gunstocks.com
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Not if it was the almighty Block! ::)
;D
Watch It Haz..... I carry a BLOCK!!! ;D
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The gun is similar to this, and the part that's broken off is broken off above that right lock, so the wrap it in rawhide method wouldn't work. I figure the most complicated and time consuming part will be fitting the thing to the locks. But seeing how I still have the original to model it after, I don't think it'll be as big a problem.
(http://www.impactguns.com/store/media/norinco/norinco_91411.jpg)
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Super glue it together to use as a pattern. It might be strong enough to shoot that way as the glue seam will not give away, but the wood around it might.
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Glue is how I fixed it the first time. It wasn't strong enough to shoot.......
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It should hold for lay out.