A grade 12
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Re: A grade 12
It’s a crap shoot. In theory it should be close but more often than not the fitment is not great.
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Re: A grade 12
Where are pictures of your A-grade for comparison? Over time the way the top-tang joins the frame changed. Early on it was a wide radius as on the stock you show. The wide radius corner on a 1910 gun --
By 1921 the radius was smaller --
Virtually square by 1929 --
By 1921 the radius was smaller --
Virtually square by 1929 --
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Re: A grade 12
Jabba, I wish you luck in finding a buttstock and forend wood with a reasonably close fit. As I've posted previously there were many production changes and besides that the metalwork was machined by humans turning dials on milling machines, shapers, lathes, etc. If something was finished a bit under/oversize or with the wrong radius - no problem. The wood fitters would accommodate when hand fitting. I personally would never buy a high value stock or forend without an arrangement with the seller to return if its fit was too far off. All this FWIW. frank
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