Need Stock Help

[Bindlestiff]

I had one fix years ago and the person that did the work made it stronger than new. After he fixed the break (almost invisible) he milled a slot in the trigger guard inlet and glued in a "biscuit" with it's wood grain going 90 degrees to the grain in the stock.

[edgarspencer]

Did you ever notice that you see more broken 'high grade' stocks, than plain old working guns? The more wild the grain, the more likely it isn't gonna go fore and aft at the weaker wrist area.
A proper repair with wood like that is an inletted spline, nice straight grain and running in line with the wrist. Lucky for you, a straight stock can have a larger, longer, and stronger spline and still be completely hidden beneath the trigger guard. I am not a stock man, but some who are prefer dowelling, but it seems to me a milled slot is more easily done than deep drilling and running the risk of getting off center.

[C.O.B.]

If it's a clean break I would think a proper fix would hold it. The only gun I ever had break at the wrist is a custom 416 Taylor. The smith put a dowell through it and it has taken the recoil without a problem ever since. I'd try a proper repair first as a new custom stock will set you back several thousand dollars.