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I finally replaced the ugly hardwood stocks on my Winchester 94AE .44 Mag, thanks to Meanc selling a set in the classifieds!
This gun deserves walnut after all the dang work I have put into it, half cock conversion, safety filler and sights. It's about as close to a real Winchester as an AE can get
I had to open up the forearm to accept the heavy barreled .44 but everything went smooth, as can be, nice little Friday evening project. I may pull the sling stud out, fill and re-finish the wood or just put one of those magazine clamp on studs on it and sling it, not sure yet but I think a sling may be handy for this one.
I really like this little trapper even more now that it has proper wood, some things just bring the cosmos into balance!
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ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
Now that's more like it! It's just right now!!
I've thought of doing a Pre War "cowboy conversion" on my '79 .30-30 Trapper - with something like a Precision Gunstocks walnut carbine rear and new front. Since I'm not trying to fool (or please) anyone but myself, might make it a hybrid by keeping the short wood (but new matching walnut) on the front as I've not sold myself on the "correct" long-wood for a trapper.--more "period correct" though that may be. Then again, if you're gonna do it right...? Unlike most '94s, you're basically emulating an otherwise unobtainable original (a "real" Pre War trapper's just about the rarest beast and the most precious prices one can pay for a '94...ditto its '92 equivalent). The gun's already got the saddle ring and the correct front post sight location, so it's just begging for the Pre War treatment. Problem is, the original stock's not bad (and it's walnut)...so it's taking awhile to get around to fixing something that really isn't quite broken! Gonna get there though!
Thanks all, that old wood has bugged me since I bought this gun new at Big5 on sale back in 95. I just kept putting it off, thinking the same as gak, long wood and steel carbine butt plate but Meanc's offer in the classifieds made me decide to just get some walnut on it!
I was comparing the stock on my Puma 92 just this morning and it would not take much stock work to fit a steel carbine butt stock
Joe, I lined the stock up with the barrel and scribed faint lines on it, then used a drum sander on a Dremel to take out the bulk of the wood. I then found just the right O.D. piece of rubber transmission hose and cut about a 4" piece for a sanding block and carefully fit it with that (you can see the hose and sandpaper in the two finished pictures above on the right hand side above the dust mask). Sealed up the wood with thinned out Tru-Oil.
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
