doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Opinions on gun fit, or should I suck it up.

Too little drop is the worst of all shotgun gun dimensions for me to adapt to. In short, I can't. I'm of the opinion that almost no-one can mash their cheek hard on the comb and shoot well. It introduces excessive recoil to the cheek, and in short order takes your mind off the target and puts it on things it shouldn't be on. It is totally counter-productive to shooting well.

I'd have it bent (first choice), restock the butt (second choice), or shave the comb down (last choice) .............. or move it down the path of commerce. No exceptions.

SRH

Thanks for all the reply�s guys. I talked to SKB and will be taking it up to him when things slow down.

If they are just a bit too high I'd sand them down. I've also bent them, for myself. The easiest way is to rest the gun on a table, with a couple of shot bags on the barrels and the receiver back over the edge. Make sure all the screws are tight, wrap a sock wet with cooking oil around the wrist and put a heat lamp on each side close to the wrist. Put another bag or two of shot on the butt end of the stock. Measure to the floor and check it every 15 minutes or so. You're not forcing anything so this way it's pretty safe. If it wants to bend, it will. Maybe put something on the floor to catch any oil dripping down. It may take a hour or two. I do it in my reloading room as I reload. Good luck - Paul

Do you remove the trigger guard 1st?

Those gunsmiths that use stock bending fixtures will usually tell you that there is always a risk of cracking or breaking the wrist, and no money back full replacement guarantee.

The method described by Paul Harm carries virtually no risk unless you don't take care to secure the gun before adding bags of shot to the butt end, and it all crashes to the floor. The cost is next to nothing. And best of all, you could use the money you save to buy some ammo, or to make a little donation to this forum, the campaign to re-elect Donald Trump, and the NRA! That's a win, win, win situation.

I have bent stocks before with a homemade jig but always worried about the force applied. I used the method described in this thread by Paul and it worked like a charm. It takes awhile and it may yet show some rebound, the gun is from 1922, but I'll test fired this week

More than one way to approach things. If the jig worries you, the stock can be moved with your hands and you can use the jig to keep it in place(easier with an extra set of hands). My hands are very strong but I have yet to break one using that method.

Trigger guard needs to be removed before the bend Buzz.

I sometimes remove the trigger guard. When I don't, they're hell to remove latter. I also have a jig made up, but have cracked two stocks using it. Now there's some work ahead of you. But with the method I described I've never cracked one. It was a gunsmithing friend of mine who thought it up and told me about it. Maybe others have also done it. Another friend had a Connecticut Shotgun made by Tony and it had a lot of grain going through the wrist. He wanted me to bend it and I said no. So he did it with the shot bags. It bent without cracking. I don't use the jig anymore.