Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow
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Want the girlfriend to practice with the IMI Timberwolf .357 Mag pump for fun and home defense, and she's excited to do so, which is great. However, she's like 5' 3" and the LOP is too long on it for her....just not working.
Since they are no longer made, I'm of course not going to hack up the existing wood stock.
What I'd like to do, since it's a break-down gun anyway, is just get a 2nd replacement part stock, take the steel "interface" or "trunion" (if I'm using those terms correctly), remove the wood stock from the steel on this 2nd part, and then fabricate (or have someone else fabricate) a pistol grip & stock (single wood unit I think) with a shorter LOP, and re-attach to the "interface".
Assuming there are no extra stocks at Numrich etc., (guess I need to go check - but I'm not getting my hopes up for this obscure rifle), any ideas to brainstorm on how to go about fashioning a quality alternate stock like this, and still be able to restore to original config to keep the rifle's value? Any gunsmiths you could recommend that would do this job?
This may have gone better in gunsmithing; I dunno..... Thanks.
The other alternative (please chime in if you have opinion on this one), is to ditch the Timberwolf idea for her, and instead get her on the M1 Carbine, which has a short LOP. But I just thought that that pump with crossbolt safety would be safer and less complex for a beginner like her, than a semi-auto's manual of arms (what with magazines, detaching, attaching, charging, etc.)
P.S. Until she's more advanced, she's not overly comfortable with the recoil of handguns, shotguns, and rifle-round rifles; hence the handgun-cal carbine choices for her at this point in time.
Since they are no longer made, I'm of course not going to hack up the existing wood stock.
What I'd like to do, since it's a break-down gun anyway, is just get a 2nd replacement part stock, take the steel "interface" or "trunion" (if I'm using those terms correctly), remove the wood stock from the steel on this 2nd part, and then fabricate (or have someone else fabricate) a pistol grip & stock (single wood unit I think) with a shorter LOP, and re-attach to the "interface".
Assuming there are no extra stocks at Numrich etc., (guess I need to go check - but I'm not getting my hopes up for this obscure rifle), any ideas to brainstorm on how to go about fashioning a quality alternate stock like this, and still be able to restore to original config to keep the rifle's value? Any gunsmiths you could recommend that would do this job?
This may have gone better in gunsmithing; I dunno..... Thanks.
The other alternative (please chime in if you have opinion on this one), is to ditch the Timberwolf idea for her, and instead get her on the M1 Carbine, which has a short LOP. But I just thought that that pump with crossbolt safety would be safer and less complex for a beginner like her, than a semi-auto's manual of arms (what with magazines, detaching, attaching, charging, etc.)
P.S. Until she's more advanced, she's not overly comfortable with the recoil of handguns, shotguns, and rifle-round rifles; hence the handgun-cal carbine choices for her at this point in time.
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