Welcome to the board, Tom. The decision will have to be yours to make. I was also wondering when you said it was used by a Boy Scout troup, that maybe you could save it the way it is and use it for a small kid learning to shoot. You could do something temporarily as someone mentioned and always have a gun with a short stock to teach a youngster with. Or you could redo it. You'll just have to decide........And mark, I had to laugh at myself when I was looking at the gun you redid. I didn't see the word "before" above the top picture and as I was looking at your gun, I wondered how bad did it look before you redid it. (I thought the top two pictures were after you overhauled it.) Then the bottom two pictures popped up and was I shocked. You really did a great job on this, guy. It probably looks better now than the day it was shipped. Good job!