The gun features a perfect right handed safety button, while I am a lefty, a bit of right cast,
and is a bit short for me. It is hard to argue with results,
and I loath moving guns I shoot really well. A pad would correct the short LOP, the chambers could be lengthened to 2 3/4, or, left alone, and it would make a decent pheasant gun, my actual goal with the R10 restocking project.
Dang. The best laid plans....
Best,
Ted
For reasons unknown to me, cosmically baffling, many people shoot ridiculously long LOP. Many years ago I fitted a gun with an adjusto for LOP buttplate. I found that I could sorta manage the thing all the way out to 16.5" but every gun I shoot well is pretty much at 14". You may want to consider some experimenting of your own. The gun is only better manageable in every imaginable way with a shorter LOP
just a thot
Dr. Sane,
And a good thought it is. However, long LOP guns usually don't live in these parts, although, you could easily be forgiven for not knowing about that, based on your location.
You see, the ice cometh. We typically hunt in it, as well.
If you lived here, you would likely be like everyone else, and be trying to figure a way out for about 3 of the 12 months. Native and long term residents typically come to understand a gun that fits exceptionally well in a T-shirt, can't even be mounted in T-shirt, Filson, Woolrich, and Carhart. The older one gets, the more pronounced the problem becomes.
Ask Larry Brown, if he is still with us. Old joints protest moving, and, moving in cold even more.
The school (factory) solution on a Darne is typically ad one cm of LOP over your regular measurement with a conventional double. Thus, although 14 1/2 seems about right, most will find they need a bit more on a Darne.
But, because winter is always coming, here, measure three times, and cut once.
Best,
Ted
