I have a TW Stake 16 gauge made by Neuman Freres that at some point in it's history had the stock crudely lengthened. I got the gun for a song and, being rather tall, the length worked for the way I was taught to shoulder a gun. I resigned my self to putting up with the unattractive spacer, writing it off as simply part of the history of the gun.
A friend of mine who was brought up in the british gun trade recently saw pictures of the stock and begged me to remove the spacer. I explained that the length of the stock with the spacer works for me and he said he wished we could get together so he could show me how to shoot with the 'proper' length of stock. He lives in England so this would be problematic.
It is certainly within my capability to remove the extension, and if it is simply a matter of shouldering the gun differently, well, I am not so old a dog that I cannot learn new tricks. Also it has been my impression that generally speaking that antique European guns tend to have shorter stocks than their modern American counterparts, though honestly I haven't paid close enough attention to say that this impression is accurate.
So, what do you folks think? Shall I remove the spacer and retrain a little? Or leave the gun alone and enjoy it as-is?
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