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Do yourself a favor and order from Amazon Rollin Oswald’s Stockfitters Bible. It will help you self-diagnose stock fit problems. Great reference book. Also, keep in mind (and this may not apply to you) but any stocker will charge at the minimum $3-3.5k for a stock off a duplicator, not including wood. A Miroku SxS is a good gun, but if you go with a Greenwood or a Doug Mann they will put a serious hole in your wallet and you will be way upside down on your initial cost. Been there and done that The man asked about JJ Perodeau at Champlin Arms. Do you think he will be any cheaper than the other stockers mentioned? I doubt it. It sounded as though Kip wanted a new stock made and a fitting. That’s expensive. If Kip wants it done on the cheap, then the cheap way to go is use 10 spacers and then either file on the comb or add some moleskin. On the other hand, if he wants a new stock and an expert gun fitting, then go to a pro and expect to pay for the service. To me, an expert gun fitter is worth paying for.
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I'd second Darryl's thoughts about doing a butt-transplant versus complete restocking. And by the time you pay the costs for adding a wood extension, possibly bending the stock, and adding another $800.00 or so for fake grain painting to cover the glue joint that will often reappear as the wood shrinks and swells... then you are well on your way to the price of a complete restocking job. And if you go that far, you will be very upside-down on a Miroku boxlock.
Another nice thing about the butt-transplant option is that you can often find a very nice and high quality blank for far less money simply because it may be a bit too short for doing a complete restock job. If you can beg, borrow, or buy a copy of Shotgun Technicana, there is a very good description of the process.
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If I own the gun for years, $3k (which is the starting rate listed on JJ's site for a boxlock restocking) isn't a whole lot of money - especially if it fits me properly, an achievement that no other guns I own hold at the moment. I may get some wood extensions for the comb and butt to start with, it'll make it into a bit of a Franken-gun but it would provide enough material to allow the fitting to be done on that gun itself. Larson's faux-grain looks pretty good in photos, if I decide to hold off on restocking for an extended period of time I can have it painted up and blended properly.
I'm wary of self diagnosing because I've almost certainly picked up some bad mounting habits as a result of shooting nothing short guns, I'd really prefer someone who knows what they're doing to help fix issues like that and get me sorted out.
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