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November 19, 2006
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Not my cup of tea, but if I had it in my hands, I would shoulder it and see how it fit me.
April 15, 2005
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Somebody did an excellent job of fitting that stock to the receiver frame and butt plate, but it is otherwise rather ugly looking.
Bert
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November 2, 2009
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Some “metal artist” reworked the mag tube retaining band, also.
November 19, 2006
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Bert H. said
Somebody did an excellent job of fitting that stock to the receiver frame and butt plate, but it is otherwise rather ugly looking.
Bert
Then surely it was factory work 
December 9, 2002
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Steve,
Did you just call Bert, Shirley? LOL!!! 
Yeah if you look closely, you can see inefficiencies in the wood to metal fit, at the top tang, as good as it is, it’s better than most we see.
win4575 said
Some “metal artist” reworked the mag tube retaining band, also.
I also noticed the front hanger reworked.
The stock looks more like one that you would see on a M1885, and not a M1886. IMO!
Anthony
February 1, 2013
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Not for me!
November 19, 2006
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Anthony said
Steve,
Did you just call Bert, Shirley? LOL!!!
Yeah if you look closely, you can see inefficiencies in the wood to metal fit, at the top tang, as good as it is, it’s better than most we see.win4575 said
Some “metal artist” reworked the mag tube retaining band, also.
I also noticed the front hanger reworked.
The stock looks more like one that you would see on a M1885, and not a M1886. IMO!
Anthony
Tony – I try to be thoughtful of what I say. Don’t always succeed
When I saw this buttstock, it reminded me of this one (which was special order by the factory):
December 9, 2002
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November 19, 2006
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Anthony said
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t-OgxyAbZKY
Anthony
That is the scene that immediately came to mind!
November 7, 2015
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win4575 said
Some “metal artist” reworked the mag tube retaining band, also.
Maybe the same one that polished all the blue off it.
Mike
January 20, 2023
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Most of you are too young to remember the late custom gunmaker Anthony Guyman of Bremerton, Washington and his “Guns of Distinction”. They were stocked in a very far out style — an exaggerated California Look that made Weatherby rifles seem positively Victorian by comparison. You can see examples of them in the 1954 edition of Gun Digest.
Even the later Winslow Plainsmaster – a Weatherby as envisioned by someone on LSD — was not as grotesque as Guyman’s most extreme custom stocks. Jack O’Connor said they made him break out in hives.
Guyman operated a gunmaking school in Bremerton and several of his students also turned out rifles in the Guyman style. Most of the rifles made by Guyman himself or in his shop wore recoil pads with the Guns of Distinction logo.
If Guyman or one of his disciples had restocked a Winchester 1886, it would surely (not Shirley) looked like the one Steve has linked us to.
- 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.
June 1, 2023
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That poor rifle fell off the ugly tree and hit ALL of the branches on its way down. If I found I suddenly owned such a grotesque creation, I would remove the butt stock immediately, and source a more traditional replacement —- before the sun set on the first day of my ownership. While I waited for the new stock, the present one would keep me warm by being joyfully fed to my wood stove.
BRP
January 20, 2023
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Blue Ridge Parson said
That poor rifle fell off the ugly tree and hit ALL of the branches on its way down. If I found I suddenly owned such a grotesque creation, I would remove the butt stock immediately, and source a more traditional replacement —- before the sun set on the first day of my ownership. While I waited for the new stock, the present one would keep me warm by being joyfully fed to my wood stove.
BRP
De gustibus non disputandum est. And my dad taught me, “Never try to teach a hog to sing. It’s a waste of your time. And it irritates the hog.”
But some things are such a stain on the craft …..
- 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.
