![]() Also, an oil soaked stock is a soft stock that is waiting to break. Storing muzzle down allows the oil to migrate down the barrel instead of into the stock. Does storing it muzzle down just keep the oil from seeping into the stock? Can oil cause the wood to get soft and/or form a crack? ![]() I'm thinking right now of having the stock fitted and finished, and having the locks/frame cyanide colored, and barrel re-blued. Lol, yes this whole thing was oil soaked. Since it doesn't appear to, you need to find somebody who is looking for a "project"-what my wife calls making $1000 worth of parts and labor into a $700 gun. If this gun has sentimental value, it would be worth complete restocking. I used to have a contact in Alabama who would do wonders, but he is no longer with us.Īlso note that somebody "customized" the forend with a wood rasp or some other delicate instrument. I SUSPECT all this could be done, but it is pretty labor-intensive and you'd need to find the right guy, moneywise and skillwise. In order for it to be glued and reinforced with epoxy and glass, that glue would need to be removed and the oil raised out of the wood grain so that the "fix" would adhere to the wood. It looks to me like the wood is not only "compound fractured," It is soaked with oil and glue. There are "Stock Doctors" who can do wonderful things with busted stocks. Mine all get their sidelock area fiberglass reinforced (inside) as soon as I get them. But it is a chronic problem that nearly all of them get with some use. As Napalm says, the wood is the only weak spot on an Elsie. ![]()
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