While on the topic, a few things that anyone should remember when working with semi-inletted stocks is that all guns are different. Lower quality guns that were more machine made have better luck in the one stock fits most principle. Stevens and Crescent guns are good examples of this. Higher quality guns such as Parkers, Fox, LC Smith, etc... will have less uniformity becasue they are hand fitted and finished with a lot a variation sometimes.

With the later, it is always best to have your semi-inletted stock made from your original if possible. Or have your action compared against the the pattern to be used.

Another thing is that you may not know what you are getting for drop dimentions with an off the shelf duplication.

And the biggest point, semi-inlets are often advertised as 95% completed. But that is usually an overstatement. Depending on the gun it still takes a lot of time and work to get an action fitted and then all the surface work is needed after that. A drop in fit should never be expected.


B.Dudley