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April 3, 2018
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Have an original later FM 1886 in 33 WCF with Lyman 21 receiver sight. Crescent rifle buttstock. All original.
The question is, bear with me:
How close-or far away is a Browning replica butt stock as to tang screw holes and fitment…from this later Winchester 1886. Thinking of an available Browning SB buttstock for hunting with this rifle. I still load and hunt with these nickle steel 86 rifles. (Need a response from someone who knows both original 1886 and Browning versions.)
Thanks in advance.
January 20, 2023
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Ridge, I can’t do it today but tomorrow I could take measurements and close-up photos of two rifles in my locker, if you think it would help:
The first is “our” 1886 33 WCF that has a straight stock and tangs. The second is a Miroku-built 1886 45/70 with similar stock and tangs. That one is a Winchester branded ELW version of the rifle with a tang safety, one of a run catalogued by Browning (Winchester Guns) about 2000.
To accurately measure locations of the screw holes, the only reliable point of reference I can think of would be the tip of the tang. Relative lengths of the tangs and widths of the wrists I can measure with calipers and a dial indicator.
Being somewhat hamhanded, I’m disinclined to attempt removing the buttstocks from the guns.
What I don’t know how to do is measure (accurately) drop at comb and heel, and pitch. LOP I can manage reasonably well with a tape.
As long as the wood at the wrist is proud of the receiver’s rear face, which can’t be fixed if too narrow, I’d think the inletting could be deepened a hair to close up a shorter tang. You might have to dowel and re-drill the screw holes but the tang would cover that work.
Let me know,
Bill
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 8, 2011
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Some years ago, I put a Browning 1886 src buttstock on an original 1886. After modifying the area where the hammer spring goes, the stock fit fine. I can’t assure that all of them fit, but the one I used did
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