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Thanks for your opinion, sentimental value for me, it was 16-65 shotgun. But what if is valuable gun, which I doubt,would be a better new or renovate old butt?
thanks Jose.

What's wrong with it? You don't say anything about whether the gun fits you and whether that matters, so why get a new stock? Looks like the checkering could be chased; it's visible in foto. Got plenty of dents which could be raised by steam and heat. The cracked off horn could be jointed off and a dutchman glued on and faired in. What catchs my eye is the worn down drop point and wood below the lockplate left hand side. There's been some talk on this forum about laminating new "cheeks" to a stock head shy of the action or receiver (or in this case, lockplates). I've never done this but it might be a technique that would apply to you stock. Whether these things are possible for you, I can't say. If you have 400 Euros to throw, by all means go that way.

jack

Thanks jack on the advice, but this is not possible to make, at least for now. I do not have the technical ability to do it.
Gunsmith said that renovation of old stock, because of tear drops next sideplates (lockplates),.. will not be pretty, and it is better to make a new one.

I renewing the old gun and I would like to bring job to the end.
Hope it will be a nice new butt.

Mario

Mario,
I do not see any real need for a new stock on this gun, just have it repaired/refinished correctly. If your gunsmith does not think so, change the gunsmith, not the stock...
With kind regards,
Jani

Jani
thanks for the support, there is more damage on the stock, that the pictures do not show. We will make a new one. It should be nice.

Mario