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Marrakai’s stock bending instructions
Buy the gun and bend it yourself at home. Its a piece of cake! I have bent the stocks on a number of shotguns, including 2 Cashmore sidelocks. One was so bad, that the front bead was a full 1 1/2 inches below my line of sight over the breech with the gun correctly mounted. I was told how to do it by a good gunsmith, and just gave it a go. Two pre-requisites: a through-bolt in the stock makes it near impossible of course, and all bets are off if the gun has a plastic stock-finish. Here's how I do mine:
Remove barrels, forend, and trigger-guard. Clamp the action-bar in a padded vise, so the butt-stock is flat (ie on its side). Build a jig with scrap timber clamped to the bench, so that a padded furniture-clamp can be fitted over the heel of the stock (to increase drop) or toe (to decrease drop), against an immoveable part of the bench/jig. Keep the area beneath the stock-wrist clear.
Rig up an electric warmer beneath the wrist, with a wide-mouthed pot containing boiled linseed oil. Wrap a couple of rags or strips of inner-tube around the action and the comb so that oil doesn't spread too far along the stock.
Continuously ladle the heated oil over the wrist of the stock, allowing the hot oil to drain back into the pot. Every few minutes, put a little tension on the clamp. You will find that as the wood heats up, the wrist will start to bend fairly easily under the pressure of the furniture clamp. Take your time and work slowly. Mark the jig so you know how far it has been bent. When you reach the mark, simply stop ladling, drain the stock, give it a wipe over, and leave the gun clamped till the next day (or a little longer if you can).
I found that the first stock I bent relaxed back a little, and being fussy I re-did it, going just a fraction past the mark. With the second, I went slightly past the mark and it stayed there, but was still a good fit so I left it. Now I bend to the mark and see what happens.
If the gun has a normal oil finish, this process shouldn't harm it in any way. I couldn't detect any effects on the stocks I treated this way.
Its probably a good idea to have a fire-extinguisher or fire-blanket handy. I let the oil get pretty hot (just starting to smoke slightly) but would probably not recommend this considering the combustability of hot linseed oil under certain circumstances.
If in doubt, try it first on a 'Clunker'!!
I would never let stock dimensions rob me of the pleasure of owning a fine gun!
JC
