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New Stock for BSA Martini International MK II
Feb 17th, 2025 at 12:18am
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After months of delay with Canadian Postal strike finally got to work finishing the CPA BSA blank.

Left side rough CPA blank
Left side 80 grit sanding
Left side 600 grit sanding covered with Tung Oil
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Reply #1 - Feb 17th, 2025 at 12:23am
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Right side rough CPA blank
Right side 80 grit sanding
Right side 600 grit sanding covered with Tung Oil
  
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Reply #2 - Feb 17th, 2025 at 12:25am
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Inletted stock with a few hours with a chisel and made groove for lever to inset into.
  
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Reply #3 - Feb 17th, 2025 at 9:30pm
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Very nice so far
Did you have then bore the stock bolt hole?
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Reply #4 - Feb 17th, 2025 at 10:03pm
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Looks nice!  Wood work is my least favorite part of gun work, so I understand the pain in making something beautiful.
  
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Reply #5 - Feb 18th, 2025 at 9:39am
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CPA bored the stock bolt hole.
  
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Reply #6 - Feb 18th, 2025 at 11:08am
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I'll never order another CPA semi inletted stock again after the last horrible POS they sent me.
  
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Reply #7 - Feb 18th, 2025 at 8:46pm
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Finished stock fitted to BSA Martini International MK II with an adjustable Canjar buttplate.
  
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Reply #8 - Feb 18th, 2025 at 8:57pm
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Very nice, but I’m curious about what appears to be a piece of bicycle inner tube wrapped around the scope.

What dat about? Not allowed to adjust scope power in a match?
  
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Reply #9 - Feb 18th, 2025 at 8:59pm
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This rifle ejects the cases with extreme force denting the scope - inner tube is a barrier to reduce impact from the cases being ejected.

The inner tube slows the cases so the guy on the next bench gets hit instead of the guys on benches further away.
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Reply #10 - Feb 19th, 2025 at 4:28am
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Nice job!  Looks great but I’ve been hearing some negative chatter about CPA’s stocks recently.  Looks like you did ok 👍🏻
  
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Reply #11 - Feb 19th, 2025 at 9:05am
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In the past I have received excellent inletted stocks from CPA that were excellent duplications of their original stocks.

This stock was NOT inletted for a receiver when they had stated "Buttstock is 95% shaped and inlet for the frame".
This stock was extremely rough from chatter from using unsharpened bits leaving ridges and gouged holes.

It took a day of trying to straighten out the misaligned stock bolt holes since I could not align the nut sliding in a different direction than the bolt was aligned.

They drilled at different angles from each end of the stock causing a major problem trying to get the nut started to tighten the stock.

I hope the new CPA owners can correct their problems and reinstate the quality previously shown by the previous owners.

The poor quality of this stock caused me an additional one week of hand labour to correct.
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Reply #12 - Feb 19th, 2025 at 12:03pm
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The stock I got was a pistol grip stock for a Rolling Block Sporting Rifle. It appears they somehow maybe went home partway through shaping it as the external shaping and size was great, but the inletting for the tangs was shifted over 1/4" off in depth! 
The top tang recess was maybe 1/8" deep, which isn't a big deal. But the bottom tang recess inletting was over 1/2" deep and that caused huge issues. I had to cut thin strips of walnut and glue them into the lower tang to build it up until it fit. Then I could begin taking wood out of the upper tang inletting to get the tang down below surface. It should have been a little high at both tangs, not too low and too high as they did it.
I should have just sent it back, but I'd already waited too long to get it, and wasn't sure the next one would be any better if the same person did it.
  
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Re: New Stock for BSA Martini International MK II
Reply #13 - Feb 19th, 2025 at 1:20pm
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Wow, your stock looks like CPA shaped it by beaver teeth.  Yikes!
I've only had one bad experience, about 30+ years ago on a Ballard/Schoyen stock cut on my wood.    The outside was nicely done but the through bolt/tang holes were 3/8"+ offset.  I had to hog out the tang and do a lot of extra work.  Turned out great but wow, what a PITA.
I should have sent it back but this was a blank I had picked out for this rifle 
  
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Re: New Stock for BSA Martini International MK II
Reply #14 - Feb 19th, 2025 at 5:52pm
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Marlinguy: CPA Pistol grip for Rolling Block received in 2014. It was a perfect fit and of excellent quality back then. A real loss of knowledge and expertise when we lost Paul Shuttleworth.

I should have sent my BSA blank back but it took four months to arrive and I had to pay duties to bring it into Canada.
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