Remember that the Varner was a to-scale interpretation of a Stevens "Favorite".  The one pictured is the deluxe version.  As best I know, the company went bust rather quickly and not many Varners were made.  In fact, that's the first deluxe model I've seen.

Bill Lawrence

Be careful that the comb is not so high as to able a cleaning rod to pass straight into the barrel.  I had to lower the comb on my restocked 044 1/2 to be able to look down the bore.  Tom

JLouis wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 11:21am:


I'm allowing myself to get off topic here but does anybody know anything about the tang site pictured in the link?

ssdave wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 2:12pm:


Interesting.  Acquiring that machinery and parts sounds like the Rabbit Hole to beat all Rabbit Holes!  The "ultimate project gun."  Still, it's a bit fascinating to see the stuff up for sale.

Is this the style of stock you are looking for?
This is original wood on my 45-44 1/2:
If so, it should be fairly easy to replicate with the thinner frame on an 044 1/2, by using a stock made for a 44/44 1/2, that will be wider in the wrist.

I am not the best photographer, and for some reason the photos get a little fuzzy when I resize them. This rifle has a barrel that was an eBay find that was in .25-20 ss that I had rebored to .32-20. The original barrel had a Parker-Hale .22 lr liner in it but was in .32 ideal originally. I removed the liner and used it for another project, and installed a TJ liner for .32-20, but I messed up the chamber. Someday I’ll get that fixed, but I used loctite and that liner is never coming out.

CPA has a complete stock duplicating outfit in a separate part of their shop. Very large wood inventory too. Over 25 years they have made 6 or 7 unfinished stocks for my 3 CPA rifles. BPCS rule stock, then bench rest, next offhand Pope style then offhand not Pope. Long range and Sporter.

Point is they can adjust the pattern stock and have the machine make about anything.  The machine duplicated stock needs to be finished. Have done a couple my self, had CPA send two out for final shape finish & checker and sent two to stock makers myself. Third rifle sold unfinished to a friend  he completed.

Doubt if there is anybody with better Stevens stocking options & experence  using machine duplicates than CPA . Thing is buyer needs to know what he wants and have a stockman finish the job. My home finish jobs not as nice as professional but still serviceable. Good option order too large cut down to suit then have a pro final finish & checker. 

Boats

Pattern or if a standard design oversize inletted and installed on your gun as it came off the machine  is the way to get exactly what you want. Not expensive either. Real money is spent on wood final finish & checkering.

I shot my first CPA standard design home finished for 10 years before moving  to fancy wood professionally finished.

Boats