No4.MkII reality check

Very good chance it's Birch.

I purchased a dozen NOS butts about 20 years ago and all of them were Birch.

None of them were in the white, but wrapped in crumpling brown, wax paper.

It's a very simple stain to duplicate, as it doesn't appear to be oil based, maybe to allow the Linseed Oil to soak in better???
 
bearhunter said:
Very good chance it's Birch.

I purchased a dozen NOS butts about 20 years ago and all of them were Birch.

None of them were in the white, but wrapped in crumpling brown, wax paper.

It's a very simple stain to duplicate, as it doesn't appear to be oil based, maybe to allow the Linseed Oil to soak in better???
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Birch! That's what my stock is!

I don't know why I thought it was beech. In any case, it sure is ugly stock wood.

Claven, I saw a beech normal buttstock on a photo link to Apex in the States, but they blocked Canadian access to viewing their webpage.

Here is the link if you know a workaround:

https://www.apexgunparts.com/enfield-4-buttstock-british-beech-normal-length-nos.html

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Butts are in 1/2" increments. B for Bantam, Short, Normal, Long and I might be remembering wrong there might be an XL. While my copy of Stratton doesn't give a start length, a B is - 1", a S is - 1/2", N is the neutral length, and L is + 1/2".
 
Apex definitely does not ship to Canada, and given current border tensions, importing it from my us address would also be iffy, I think. Would like to find something here in Canada
 
Normal length Beech butt. I have acouple coming from a UK auction. Pictures look good on them. Non issued. I could part with one. I have a couple here that have been sanded and stamps gone which could be used until something better came along.
If I can find a measure tape I’ll measure my Bantum stock. Non issued Long Branch. I’ve been finding some stock wood lately. I have all lengths.
 
Snider shooter said:
Normal length Beech butt. I have acouple coming from a UK auction. Pictures look good on them. Non issued. I could part with one. I have a couple here that have been sanded and stamps gone which could be used until something better came along.
If I can find a measure tape I’ll measure my Bantum stock. Non issued Long Branch. I’ve been finding some stock wood lately. I have all lengths.
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LMK when they arrive if you can spare one pls.
 
so here is the stock from marstar that is not beech. It's possibly birch or elm, british manufacture, from factory N49? actually has some nice grain, and an entire gun stocked in this wood would look nice, but it's not a great fir for the rest of the beech furniture.

This is as close a color match as I could make it (and it was not easy!!). Also required a lot of fitting - it was pretty oversized, more than I usually expect from a new in wrap butt.

As soon as I can locate a normal length beech butt, I'll swap it out, but at least the length of pull is usable now.

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