I wonder if a reproduction pistol carbine stock made for the Colt 1860 Army could be fitted to a Single Six?
While mounting such a stock to a cartridge pistol would be illegal, I've heard that by rebarreling the pistol to over sixteen inches would make it a rifle rather than a handgun (making a pistol out of a rifle is illegal but not the other way around), but perhaps that only counts if the stock is mounted permanently.
How does that sound?
I've got a real beat up but still sound and tight Single Six and I've been considering making a custom piece out of it.
Like Kaiser Willhem my left flipper is a bit bunged up so like him I might find the Pistol Carbine style easier to handle than a regular long arm.
The arm is okay most of the time I just can't rotate the wrist well enough to cradle a fore end comfortably. Sometimes the nerve gets pinced and I have to rotate the wrist with the otherhand to get it to turn at all.
I really should find a new doctor, perhaps they can trim away some of the calcus that pins the nerve between the wrist bones.
Well its better than losing it altogether.
A nephew ended up with his wrist bones penetrating his leather jacket and if he hadn't been wearing a thick Harley Davidson vest they would have ripped open his abdomen. I still have the vest, you can see where the sharp ends of the bones scarred the leather.
Took three years and a dozen surgeries to repair that mess. He also gave me the steel rods and clamps and a collection of threaded steel spikes with Drill bit tips that they used to hold his bones straight while the bone grafts took.
I didn't have that level of care back in the old days. If I hadn't fallen out of a tree I was trimming and broken the arm again it would still be bent like a bow saw. Straight and with normal strength these days. Just that nerve pincing problem.
Rambling because I just got my script refilled, Thank heaven for the US Pharamacuetical industry.
