carbon outlaw wrote on Oct 24^th, 2017 at 9:24pm:

wow nice I would never have thought of cutting down a replacement stock .... nice bluing job i really like your rifle !!!!

psteinmayer wrote on Oct 24^th, 2017 at 11:23pm:

Sounds like your stock started out much the same as mine too:  My 24" cutdown sporter is wearing a Bishop stock as furniture.  It's a big ole hunk 'O wood too with the cheek pad and all.  It could probably stand to be thinned down some too.  I converted the old girl into a Bench Rest Cast Bullet rig, so that big stock isn't a problem.  However, I did used to hunt with it back when I first got it in the early 1980s.  It was a bit cumbersome as compared to a carbine or rifle.

I paid $15 for the stock. The owner of the shop was a good guy and he was more interested in seeing something done with a hunk of wood that had been collection dust in the dark back room than making money.

After all, how many people come in looking for a Krag stock these days? It did have some minor checks in the butt, but I filled them with CA and they are stable and hardly noticeable. Besides, I think they add character to the 118 year old rifle.

The stock was a club. I know there was more wood on the shop  floor than was left on the rifle once I got done.

When I'm poking around on the ground or in an elevated stand that has sight distances of less than 100 yds, it is my weapon of choice. I even occasionally sit in my tri-pod stand with it and it has 1 long shooting lane of about 275yds. The buck I took in the  pictures above was from that tri-pod 120 paces away standing 20 yds inside the brush. It took me several minutes to figure out a sight picture using features in the foreground. When I finally made the shot it was far more satisfying than any I've made at more than 2x that distance with optics.