TTN Stock

[Barry Sloe]

Where would a person look for a TTN buttstock? I've got a decent TTN, but the stock was previously shortened. 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks, 

BS

[Randy Saint Eagle, SASS # 64903]

7 minutes ago, Barry Sloe said:

Where would a person look for a TTN buttstock? I've got a decent TTN, but the stock was previously shortened. 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks, 

BS

I bought an SKB with a shortened stock and used these spacers

 

https://www.brownells.com/gun-parts/rifle-parts/rifle-stocks-parts/rifle-stock-spacer/

 

and this recoil pad to build it back out to the length I wanted.

 

https://www.brownells.com/gun-parts/recoil-pads-reducers/d752-decelerator-recoil-pad/
 

You can sand them down to fit with a belt sander.

 

Randy

[Barry Sloe]

Thanks.

I'll look into it. 

 

BS

[Reverend P. Babcock Chase]

What Randy said. 

Just add the spacers you need or a thick recoil pad. Then put one of the leather butt covers one the whole mess.

 

Rev. Chase

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

What is the leather Butt cover for??

[Matthew Duncan]

3 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

What is the leather Butt cover for??

To cover up the evidence of an amateur woodworker?

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

OK.  I'd be pointing it out saying "Look how I fix'd it."  Just me.

[Garrison Joe, SASS #60708]

All these comments should show you by now that a new replacement butt stock is hard to find.  IAC does not import these guns now, Norinco/subcontractor has  not made any since about 2011.   About the only possibility for a new stock would be sending off your short butt stock to a wood worker who can duplicate the stock while adding back the pull length you need.  That is common work in the gun stock business, but it's pricey - probably at least $600 for plain straight-grained walnut.  And some hand work will be needed most likely to fit the duplicated stock exactly to the action and finish the surface.  Unless you find a "junk" gun that still has a decent butt stock you can swap onto your gun.

 

good luck, GJ

 

[Hawg Runner, SASS #61139]

What kind of shorten was done?

[Rip Snorter]

Some stock makers have a specialized lathe which lets them mount the old stock shimmed to correct length and mill a new one.  If you do a DIY finish on the new piece, might not be bad.

[Abilene, SASS # 27489]

1 hour ago, Garrison Joe, SASS #60708 said:

All these comments should show you by now that a new replacement butt stock is hard to find.  IAC does not import these guns now, Norinco/subcontractor has  not made any since about 2011.   About the only possibility for a new stock would be sending off your short butt stock to a wood worker who can duplicate the stock while adding back the pull length you need.  That is common work in the gun stock business, but it's pricey - probably at least $600 for plain straight-grained walnut.  And some hand work will be needed most likely to fit the duplicated stock exactly to the action and finish the surface.  Unless you find a "junk" gun that still has a decent butt stock you can swap onto your gun.

 

good luck, GJ

Howdy GJ,

TTN's were never imported by IAC, they were imported by TTN and then sold through EMF, until Cimarron bought the rights.  Of course lots of us still call it a TTN.  Every so many years (once it was 5 years that a container of guns sat at a port on China waiting on various paperwork snafus) they get another shipment - most recently a year or so ago.  But dang it, they never get parts!  I know the old arguments from the factory: if we send you parts, that's guns we can't make.  Whatever.  I would demand some parts.  Dragon Hill Dave's TTN stock is in several pieces, I told him he better get it glued and pinned before it comes apart in his hands!

 

Back to the OP, I sent a Baikal buttstock that had been shortened to Lefty Wheeler who cut a spacer piece to fit and put a new buttpad on it.  The color is completely different but I can cover it with leather and the cost was quite reasonable.

[Garrison Joe, SASS #60708]

Abilene - Correct!  I was thinking of the other infamous gun from China, the 97 clone.  Parts for those dried up real quick after IAC got their last container, as well.

 

All this should remind folks that most of the smaller-market imported guns are subject to non-existent parts availability for many different reasons, including an embargo (Russia, China) or a financial crunch, a change of business direction, or just "bureaucracy."  If you buy a gun that is NOT a close clone of what was a widely made US gun, then you should probably get 2 or 3 and source your own parts from the safe when you need them.  I've already had to snag a butt stock for my old TTN from my new TTN.  Now I have to get back to trying to repair the head of that old stock where it rotted from previous oil soaked storage for years (before the receiver of the 1998 vintage TTN gives out)..

 

And, I patched in some beech to a short Baikal gunstock just like you have done.   Also, THAT one got covered with a leather butt cover, for appearances sake.

 

good luck, GJ

 

.

 

[Sgt. Hochbauer, SASS #64409]

I was given an 87 with a stock that was greatly shortened and of course the person that gave it to me did not have the portion that was cut off. I with the help of a friend made a prothesis to give more length. Considering that if looked like it was done by a monkey, I had a butt cover made that also gave a bit more length and covered the addition to the stock.

 

Hochbauer

[Johnny Meadows,SASS#28485L]

Barry, I have many stock cutoffs. If your not in a big rush, I can extend it for you and it won't look horrible.

Two week old foot surgery has put me a little behind on gun work.

JM

[Barry Sloe]

5 hours ago, Johnny Meadows,SASS#28485L said:

Barry, I have many stock cutoffs. If your not in a big rush, I can extend it for you and it won't look horrible.

Two week old foot surgery has put me a little behind on gun work.

JM

I'll give you a call. 

 

BS