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Unread 09-01-2014, 11:31 AM   #11
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Brian, could you elaborate on the possibility of fitting stocks of a certain frame size to another gun of a smaller frame size?
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Obviously your only way you an go is down. For example, a 2 frame stock can be fitted to a 1 frame action, but not the other way around. The difference in stocks is the width at the head.
The wider stock would have to be worked down for proper fit to the frame.
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Brian is right ,but you can also run into differing pitch on the top and bottom tang's ... there are times when walking with the horseshoe in your arse gets uncomfortable ,but for the most part it's never just a simple swap over .
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Yes. All my statements above are based solely on the different stock being a suitable replacement.
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So, the interior inletting is close enough to work among frame sizes?
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Pretty much Bill, In regard to internal inletting sometimes you do have to do a little finagling for a good fit ,scrape something off here or add a sliver there ...I'm sure Brian ,or anyone else who has tried it will agree... sometimes it can be a great option to get an old gun up and running , or sometimes not so much...it depends on what you want in the end ....I did a hammer gun a while ago where the fitting of a different stock involved just shaving down the top horn to meet the top tang,and a little relief in the lock plates ...everything else was like a smack in the mouth .
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Older hammerless guns that have the horns on the back of the hammers, have large Channels cut out in the head of the stock to clear the hammers when they are cocked. This leaves a relatively thin amount of wood on each side of the head. That is why you can not step down more than one frame size in many cases because you chance not having enough material to work with on the sides of the head.

Hammer guns have differences in tang shapes and sizes between some frame size. But hammerless guns have the same size tangs within most of the common frame sizes.
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Older hammerless guns that have the horns on the back of the hammers, have large Channels cut out in the head of the stock to clear the hammers when they are cocked.


Brian, please explain this statement?
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See below photo of both early and later style hammerless hammers and their respective stock inletting.

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Got it - thanks Brian.

I'm guessing that Parker Bros. realized that they didn't need all the weight afforded by those heavy hammers and by reshaping the hammers they also reduced the amount of mortise to the stock head.
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