Austin Halleck Mountain Rifle stock crack
 

I picked up a Mountain rifle a few years back after they just went out of business, from Sportsmans Warehouse while they still had some. Got the 1/28 fast twist barrel cause I like shooting big slabs of lead at things like elk. After I fired several shots out of this thing with some No Excuses I had, I realized I should have gotten the RB barrel, recoil was like a mossberg 500 with 3" rifled slugs. Plum brutal and then I noticed the stock didn't like it either and had developed a slight crack on the left side of the lock area. Now I figure I gotta get a new stock made of figure out a repair if thats possible. Then I would limit this to a sabot only gun (which is almost against my religion), but I figure might make it shoot-able again.

Does Track of the wolf have the ability to copy/pattern stocks. I haven't called them yet but figure some of you might know. Any other suggestions.

happy Day to all of you.

Send in and get a stock that is band sawed out of a plank and start carving. I use a router table to make the barrel channel the rest is carve draw knife, hand plane,chisel and carve. But it is not neat as hard as I thought it would be it just takes some time.
For your needs I would recommend a piece of iron wood.

Check Dixie Gun Works for a stock. That Mountain Rifle was a beautiful rifle. What kind of powder charges were you shooting? I do not know who could carve you a new one. But there must be some company out there that could fit the hardware to a new stock for you.

I have a TC that cracked in the same place. I took a dremmel tool and hogged out the back of the crack. Then I drilled down through the crack. I used brass pins and accura glass to fix it. I packed as much accura glass into the holes as I could and pushed in the pins. Then I packed in as much into the crack from the back side as I could. It has been holding up to stout loads with 460 gr bullets.
I would have sent the TC in for repair but I was too close to hunting season. The fix is working just fine. Ron

I don't remember the load but it would probably been somewhere between 85-100 grs. BP behind a 460 no excuses. And yes, it a beautiful rifle.

Here is a couple of thoughts I have had about it. To fix the stock, since the crack is small (but I can spread it a bit by flexing the stock in my hand) and directly oppsite the lock on the corresponding flat spot where the two lock screws go through. I have thought about inletting that area, similar to how one would for a lock, about 1/8 inch, then finding a piece of wood/veneer type of appropriate thickness that would be strong but complimentary in appearance, backing that with firber glass and epoxying it in there. I have also thought about drilling down through the top of the stock, perpendicular to the crack and doweling it several places. (less asthetically pleasing probably, unless I used silver dowels and left the but ends exposed and polished.

The reason I asked about stock pattern copy machines, was I remenber seeing a video of a documentary when I was a kid and they showed how they mass produced rifle stocks in WW2. There was this machine they clamped wood blanks like a 3x6 of whatever lenght, then turned it on and it was like a giant milling machine throwing sawdust everywhere, then poof 20 garand stocks. I figure for all the copys TOTW does, they might have one.

I am not opposed to trying to make one myself, and it would be a good excuse to buy a band saw and some other good tools, but if a day of overtime and TOTW could solve it, it would be a lot faster.

I am also in the midst of finishing out a model of 1917 enfield sporterization that was in parts when it was given to me when my grandpa died 37 years ago (I only started working on it a year ago). Looking forward to getting it done and shooting it.

Thanks guys happy day to ya.

Serious Redneck, from your description I suspect that stock is repairable and the repair would not be all that noticeable. If you can spread the crack enough to get a small hypodermic needle (available at any drug store) into the innards a little to get glue down deep in the crack, so much the better. Very thin flexible plastic or metal strips help with that also. Open the crack as much as possible and flood the area with a quality wood glue. I recommend Gorilla Glue. Squeeze everything back together and wipe off the excess. Then wrap the area tightly with either rubber surgical tubing (available at many hardware stores) or with those rubber strips medical people put around your arm to draw blood (you do know a nurse or doctor, don't you). Let it sit for two days before removing the compression. scrape any squeezed out glue with a sharp blade. It will be as strong or stronger as ever.

I googled "stock duplication" and these 2 outfits came up in the results and there's probably many more:

http://www.gunstockduplicating.com/

http://www.bosesguns.com/duplicating.html

They may also do stock repair that could work out better in the long run since there won't need to be a lot of final fitting. Just call them or any stock maker and ask about what they can offer you.
Traditions was recently selling "left over" mountain rifles that were built from what looked to be A&H parts but I don't know if they have any replacement stocks available. These rifles have also been discontinued.

OK folks I fixed it. I decided to try to glue it before any thing else. I bougt some polyurethane glue from "titebond". I then wanted to try to open the crack a little to get the glue in there, but when i was tweeking it, it came apart in my hands, basically a butt-stock and a fore-stock with a clean break at the lock area, I shoulda took photos, but I didn't. since it was so clean a break, I just coated all raw surfaces with the glue, mated them back together and used a "swat" tourniquet to strap it back together and let it sit for the night. Good as new. I then looked closely at the breech tang and decided it needed bedding to distribute the recoil forces evenly, so I bedded that with a homemade epoxy concoction and that turned out great. Next day at the range it was shooting conicals of various weights very well. No more stock issues. I am now going to refinish the stock so none of the repairs will be visible.

Thanks for all the suggestion and advice.
Side note, I got some 495 no excuses and tried them in my A&H 420, best load I have found so far for that rifle.
Happy day to ya all.

Glad you got it fixed...

The machine you saw making stocks was a Blanchard lathe...It was developed at the Springfield Armory for duplicating gun stocks...It's what Track and others use to make their stocks...You put a pattern in one side and the other side follows the pattern and duplicates it...

It's also the reason we have left and right shoes...