A quick update - I fitted my new stock this morning.
Actually I started the day before yesterday. Whipped the old stock off the gun and offered up the new one. Sadly a gentle (no hammers, no stock bolt) offering-up resulted in a chunk of the internal "nose" dropping off. Bizarrely it somehow was a protruding bit with the grain running in entirely the wrong direction. I had a good look and a think and mixed up some Araldite. By this morning it had cured rock-hard, so I was good to go.
The thing needed fitting, the wood was just a tad too wide internally, so I remove just a whisker at a time until all was a snug fit, popped the shim and spacer in the right way round and fitted the nut onto the stock bolt.
To my dismay the new stock is noticeably taller and wider where it meets the action. Upon measuring it's a thicker grip, too, although that doesn't matter. There's a visible step, and it sticks out like a sore thumb. I have checked to order, which is most definitely for the right stock.
Is it possible that:
a) Beretta have started making 20 bore stocks generally bigger at the muzzle end?
or
B) Have Messrs Brignoli Silvio sent me a 12 bore one in error?
Anyone any idea where I stand?
Anyone out thered in a position to measure up the width of a 12 bore Urika stock where it meets the muzzle and the top to bottom measurement at the same junction?
One temptation would be to remove a little wood to blend things in. The existing curves may just allow this. Problem, of course, is that the Beretta satin finish polyurathane-style finish may be impossible to blend in!
Once again I wish I hadn't bothered, of course. But I am very fond of this little auto, it served me well on Thursday save for a misfire. That I reckon had to be a cartridge problem, all the others went bang at the right time, that one didn't go bang at all after three attempts. It did, however, have a healthy dimple in the primer, just like all my empties.
Five rounds of ten. Scored 9-9-9-10 but only 3 on the "misfire round" I must work on that.
It is astonishing how a misfire or malfunction can absolutely clobber my concentration. I know that from the tribulations earlier in the year when a 50% failure rate pushed my mood and scores right down into the depths. I know you're all going to think I am completely bonkers for not throwing the gun away and buying a proper one, but perseverance and switching to Armusa (or is it Carmusa) cartridges made the failure to function problem disappear. Just possible it was the advent of warmer and drier weather. I don't know. Anyway the thing performs OK now. Having said that I do notice a ring of corrosion beginning on the piston slide that has appeared over the last few weeks.
Thanks in advance
Charles
PS the strange smiley face appears unbidden instead of an option b. I am unable to edit the dam' thing out!
