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MacFromOK

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I might get a 290 stock and dress it up a bit. I am most likely going to spend more than its worth but sometimes that is ok. Found a feed tube for it and that's $38 alone.

I have a stack of heart walnut lumber that has dried for two years but its 1 inch and I would have to Laminate a couple together. Plus I have built one full length stock out of a 3 pronged cherry stump once and its not a job for the timid.

Most likely something about like that first one you posted off a 290 would be fine.
How about laminating a patch onto the broken stock, to keep more of the original gun intact?

Don't know if that would even interest you, it was just a thought.

Congrats on getting it back!
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Cowbaby

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i have a chunk of walnut u got a chain saw?

Yes I have a saw and I do appreciate the offer. I first need to get a hold of the thing and see what kind of cycling the action does, does it jam. whats the bore ect before I decide how I want to go.
As I said before I have made one stock in my lifetime split out with the grain from an actual tree. It turned out beautifully but it was over a month and a half of full time tedious work. Said I would never do that again.
This half stock would be easier but I don't think the quality of this particular model warrants that kind of painstaking work. I think I could find a nice used
one refit and refinish it.
 
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dennishoddy

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I just got the pictures yesterday. I don't even have it in my possession yet but its a done deal. He is that kind of friend. When we were just poor farm kids we were always trying to horse trade sporting goods, camping, fishing,hunting around and he was one tough haggler. Kinda trained us for adulthood I guess.

Now, if he or I ask it's just a done deal. We have ripped each other off so many times it's like "Here take it ya bastige". He was asking if I had any recurve bows. Yep, and done, its yours. Now we just give each other whatever the other one wants. I have a LOAD of custom painted high end fishing lures. 2 bricks of 22 shells, a bucket of shotgun slugs, this gun and god knows what else coming.

He has a custom ocean sized Penn reel I restored he wanted to display in his shop, a recurve bow. about 20 graphite rods and whatever else he decides he needs. If he wants the keys to my truck I will just have to find another one. One and only one BEST friend. (I hope he hates my truck). lol,

He is going to come up and see me again after the crappie run down there.

But I will post some photos when I start. I was just trying to remember what happened to my own childhood 22. Can't remember, to many ago. I got a bolt action Glenfield 22 and I was always jealous that my brother got an automatic. Kids.
I still possess every gun I ever bought but one.
Junker Rem 1100 that was a rust bucket bought for a song and sold for the same for a few bucks profit. The owner saw me 30 years later and reminded me that he still owned it and it's still ugly. He's killed a truckload of dove and quail with it though.
Hope your truck is a junker. LOL
 

Shinneryfarmer

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Congrats on the return of a family treasure. Maybe not in some eyes but I understand the sentimental value that comes with such a firearm. Restore it completely or just get it functioning again. Does not really matter it is the memories that it brings back everytime you have it in your hands or sitting in the corner when you take that glance at it for a second.
So happy it made it's way back.
 

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