Youngin Stock

[HEAD0001]

Guys I need a stock for a youngin. He has a Cricket 22 rifle that fits him perfectly. I am looking for a shotguns tock about the same size as the Crickett 22 rifle stock.

It matters not which shotgun it fits. I am building him a squirrel shotgun from the stock first. Then I will buy the shotgun to fit him.

He has a Rossi .410. And that stock is too long. Years ago Rossi made a wooden stock single shot with a shorter stock like the Cricket. I have a friend who has one. But I can't find that particular stock in the new Rossi catalog.

Anybody have any good ideas??

I am considering the purchase of a wooden stock for an Encore then just cutting it short. But I would like to look around a bit first.

He is looking forward to the first day of squirrel season. He shoots his 22LR well enough to hunt. But the early season is better with a shotgun for kids. Tom.

[Ysabel Kid]

I purchased a Marlin 15YN "Little Buckaroo" for Y2K for his first Christmas. He was 6 months old. He started shooting it regularly at 4 years old. Though it was certainly for a youth, it was still too long for him. I didn't want to cut down the original, so called Marlin about a "factory second". They sent me one free. I could never tell what made it a second, but since it didn't cost me anything, I went ahead and purchased some brass furniture for a youth blackpowder rifle. Y2K asked that it be decorated like an indian-stocked war rifle. Fit him to a "T" and he loved it!

You may try Numrich Gun Parts or perhaps GunBroker for a spare stock. Good luck!

[jeepnik]

I know Mossberg makes a 'Youth" stock for their .410 model 500's. I picked one up for my "Perfect Jeep Gun" Here's a photo if that's any help.

[AJMD429]

Thompson Center may make a 'youth' stock that is pretty short for some of their guns.

If you don't mind butt-ugly, you could get one of the 'AR' type replacement stocks they make for Mossberg and Remington shotguns, that is collapsable just like a regular AR-15 carbine stock. There are slip-on recoil pads for them, even.

Easiest though would be to just get a spare wooden stock for whatever shotgun he likes, then hand-saw it shorter (keep to the NFA limits so you don't make a 'sawed-off shotgun', though!). If you do it carefully, you could pin-and-glue the other part back on later, though it would be simpler to just put the original stock back on when he's bigger. You could make a 'stepped' stock by sawing at 1" or 2" intervals and adding them back each year or two.