[Jeff Higgins]

Sorry, no build pics on this one. I just wasn't inspired to take any. This was a favor for a friend, and I just wasn't all that excited about all the cool stuff that came with it. Because there wasn't any.

I did manage to impart some "personality" to the wood. It is far, far more plain than it came out. Some tricks with staining it and such. It quite literally could have been an Ikea bed frame or something.

Notice the piece of brass halfway between the lock and the ramrod entry pipe. The stock is actually two pieces. Not even from the same tree, they shaped and sanded differently, absorbed the stain differently, and other challenges. This was done to cut costs in manufacturing and shipping. A single piece of good gunstock wood of the length required for a "full stock" rifle would have not met the price point they sought. So, there are two steel dowel pins joining the front and back, with a brass plate in-between. Ingenious, in a way, I guess.