Yes, I will keep you all updated, it means a lot to me when people give me good advice and share memories that are special
to them. Thanks AGS for your advice and the memories of the Ruger you built as a way of remembering your dad(I would love to see pictures)
and to Mike (der Ami) for what he wrote about his dad on the thread about the CVA kit I worked on with and for my son.
For what it is worth, way back when not as many people were atune to gunbroker, I picked up deals. I found a Radom actioned Mauser in 308, with the date
of 1932, which was the year my mom, who was of Polish descent, told me she was born. The stock was so so, but I always thought of it as the Rosalie (my mom's first name) rifle. After she passed in 2011, I learned she was born in 31, but didn't want me to know she was a year older than my father. When the twins came along in 2013, we named our daughter Audrey Marie (Marie being my mom's middle name). Like I wrote earlier, I won an auction lot consisting of two identically styled stocks the week the twins were born. Neither the stocks nor the figure is all that great, the timing is the key issue. They are getting the best of all the things I found, case-colored Niedner buttplates, etc.
As for the stock, it has both an upward warp and a lateral warp, I boiled it again this morning and mounted the stock on the table of my milling machine
I used a shim to increase the pressure against the upward warp and used the quill of my milling machine to exert some lateral pressure. The next key thing,
assuming that this works is stablize the stock using a combination of metal and bedding compound.
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