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Originally Posted by Chris Travinski
Russ, Did he you have the old piece of the butt to be reattached, or did he color a new one to match? I'm guessing you had the old one? No complaints about Brad here, he's a first class gun smith.
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Chris ,In the first two pictures ,that is the original butt fore and aft , the LOP was so long some one cut the Butt of the stock and left the Skeleton Plate and Checking attached to the piece that was lopped off at that time I would assume a pad was added to get to a more normal LOP ,when I purchased the gun the pad if there was ever one installed was removed and the rear of the stock reattached ,the LOP was nearly 15 5/8 if I recall correctly ! I sent the gun to Brad and I need a 14 to 14 1/4 LOP ,so it was decided to leave the Skeleton Plate attached and remove wood forward or back of the original cut to try and match grain as nearly as possible and to get the LOP I needed to be able to shoot the gun and make it appear as natural as possible ! I was very pleased this was accomplished as well as it is ! I know a lot of the PGCA Members are quite familiar with this gun and thought they would enjoy seeing how it turned out ! Russ