What would you do with this modified 10/22 stock?
I bought this stock off eBay (from Numrichs) because it looked interesting to me. I liked the look of the cheek riser and it also had somewhat of a finger groove forend. The pistol grip was also recurved some.
But, after a lot of paint stripping and sanding, it looks like a factory Ruger 10/22 stock with some plywood and filler. I'd say the guy did a fantastic job in terms of workmanship -- everything was pretty smooth and it seems done well. It's had three colors and at least as many physical coats of paint. The first color is blue. At some point after that, it was silver. Its last color is black, though the black had a very slight rubbery/plastic feel to it. It felt extremely close to CZ's "polycoat" that they put on their CZ-75s.
He built up the cheek riser with what appears to be a 3/4" piece of plywood and some filler. He filled in the curve of the butt with plywood and he built up the right side of the pistol grip with wood filler for a bit of a palm swell. It all feels okay -- the cheek riser is a little thick, though. The height is okay, but it's so thick, it pushes my eyes off-center. I plan to, at the very least, shave some of that cheek riser off.
But I rather like the grain of the stock. I figure this must be an old stock, just guessing from the number of coats of paint it's had. Wood stock experts: what do you reckon the wood species is? 10/22 stocks have been made out of birch, beech, maple, cherry, and walnut (to my knowledge). The grain looks a little coarser than the older birch stock I recently bought, but that's really my only reference. At least half of me wants to strip all of the modifications off this stock and put a nice stain on it, regardless of the wood species, just because the grain is so attractive to me.
One idea I had is to bob the stock and cut it off after the pistol grip and turn it into a Ruger Charger-like stock, if the butt of the stock is not usable. I have an 18.5" barrel, and my OAL would still be over 26", so I think I'd be good from a legal standpoint. I wouldn't be changing the use of the gun into a pistol (something intended to be fired with one hand), and I wouldn't be using a short barrel, so I don't think it would be classified as an SBR. As long as it'd be legal, I think that'd be something interesting and fun.
It might look something like this
That would sort of be a Plan B, though, in case I start working with the butt end and find that it's really dorked up under the cheek pad.
What do you think? Any ideas for what else I could do with it? I'm considering staining it if I can take it down and get all the wood filler off. If the stock is damaged under all of this, and if it needs filler to be straight, then I'd need to put paint back on it and I've looked at fishnet options and hydro-dipping.
I bought it as a project, just to see where it would take me. And it was less than $30 to my door, so I'm not trying to recoup a large amount of money here -- just looking to experiment and learn. Any and all comments are certainly appreciated.
I bought this stock off eBay (from Numrichs) because it looked interesting to me. I liked the look of the cheek riser and it also had somewhat of a finger groove forend. The pistol grip was also recurved some.
But, after a lot of paint stripping and sanding, it looks like a factory Ruger 10/22 stock with some plywood and filler. I'd say the guy did a fantastic job in terms of workmanship -- everything was pretty smooth and it seems done well. It's had three colors and at least as many physical coats of paint. The first color is blue. At some point after that, it was silver. Its last color is black, though the black had a very slight rubbery/plastic feel to it. It felt extremely close to CZ's "polycoat" that they put on their CZ-75s.
He built up the cheek riser with what appears to be a 3/4" piece of plywood and some filler. He filled in the curve of the butt with plywood and he built up the right side of the pistol grip with wood filler for a bit of a palm swell. It all feels okay -- the cheek riser is a little thick, though. The height is okay, but it's so thick, it pushes my eyes off-center. I plan to, at the very least, shave some of that cheek riser off.
But I rather like the grain of the stock. I figure this must be an old stock, just guessing from the number of coats of paint it's had. Wood stock experts: what do you reckon the wood species is? 10/22 stocks have been made out of birch, beech, maple, cherry, and walnut (to my knowledge). The grain looks a little coarser than the older birch stock I recently bought, but that's really my only reference. At least half of me wants to strip all of the modifications off this stock and put a nice stain on it, regardless of the wood species, just because the grain is so attractive to me.
One idea I had is to bob the stock and cut it off after the pistol grip and turn it into a Ruger Charger-like stock, if the butt of the stock is not usable. I have an 18.5" barrel, and my OAL would still be over 26", so I think I'd be good from a legal standpoint. I wouldn't be changing the use of the gun into a pistol (something intended to be fired with one hand), and I wouldn't be using a short barrel, so I don't think it would be classified as an SBR. As long as it'd be legal, I think that'd be something interesting and fun.
It might look something like this
That would sort of be a Plan B, though, in case I start working with the butt end and find that it's really dorked up under the cheek pad.
What do you think? Any ideas for what else I could do with it? I'm considering staining it if I can take it down and get all the wood filler off. If the stock is damaged under all of this, and if it needs filler to be straight, then I'd need to put paint back on it and I've looked at fishnet options and hydro-dipping.
I bought it as a project, just to see where it would take me. And it was less than $30 to my door, so I'm not trying to recoup a large amount of money here -- just looking to experiment and learn. Any and all comments are certainly appreciated.
