I'm cutting down a Winchester 97 shotgun buttstock for my wife Bullion Rose.  She likes using the pump gun more than the double barrel coach gun, but she's tiny so the LOP is being reduced to 12 1/4 inch. I picked up a truly disgusting old stock for basically nothing. I have no idea what gunk was on the surface but that's now gone. At the wrist end the stock had split with long cracks on both sides, and there's a decent amount of wood lost from the forward end of the cracks. The cracks have now