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I repaired a stock with the top broken off like your's. I chose to use wooden dowels inside with no outside holes to plug.

Take a tiny piece of lipstick about a #8 shot size and place on the break on each side of the upper tang where you want the dowels to go. Carefully fit the piece back on the stock. This will tell you where to drill holes for the dowels. I used a 1/8" drill first for a pilot. Measure how deep to go and put a piece of tape on the drill at that point.

I used 1/4" dowels with holes drilled with a 3/8" drill just deep enough on opposing sides of the break without going all the way through. The 1/8" oversize will give wiggle room when fitting the dowels back in and placing broken off piece on the stock (dry fit test first) after putting Acraglass in the holes about half filled and a thin layer of glass on the broken surface area, but staying about 1/8" away from the outer edges so too much doesn't squeeze out.

Then do as was suggested with surgical tubing. JMO

Also, by repairing and shooting you can tell any changes to the stock needed if you do make a new one.

another great idea. thanks...i've got some good options here.

bobk,
I really like 2holers approach and may try it one day. That said, my approach is much simpler and if you go with my repair approach be sure you conceal the pin hole in the channel that's inletted for the top tang. That way the repair can be concealed. Sometimes if a (wood) pin is placed in the checkered areas you can conceal the repair with recheckering.
Steve
BTW I was talking about using a very thin SS bolt, about an 1/8" in diameter. One with fine threads so that you can slather it and the inside of the hole with epoxy and screw it back down into the repair hole. The addition of the epoxy will pretty much make the bolt one with the wood.

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i've got a lot of thinkin to do here.

Rockdoc's advice is good advice.

Spend the money fixing it, use it for a while to determine if you really like the gun and what dimensions you want in the new stocking. Then commit the time and resources to the project.

Note the repair will take much less time than the restock. You can wait several years for a good stocker to gt to restocking your gun.

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