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Beaver tail forend

Posted by Travis Smith on February 24, 2019, 5:31 am

I acquired a BT forend wood 0nly serial number 129798 It has the banjo escutcheon as also has the hole and bushing for the long bolt.

Does this take the same forend metal/latch/escutcheon as that of a non-BT wood?

Also does anyone have (not prints) of the bolt and locking plate for this they would be willing to share?

Many thanks

Travis

Re: Beaver tail forend

Posted by David Williamson on February 24, 2019, 7:18 am, in reply to "Beaver tail forend"

Travis, the roller release arm is longer (higher) because the wood is thicker on a beavertail than on a regular for-end. The metal escutcheon is the same.
Also the for-end metal is different in that there is a piece added to the front of the for-end to screw the recoil rod into.

That piece is brazed onto the bottom half. The hole for the for-end screw was filled with weld and had to be moved forward to catch the escutcheon screw.

Re: Beaver tail forend

Posted by Travis Smith on February 24, 2019, 8:34 am, in reply to "Re: Beaver tail forend"

That is what I was thinking.

That clears it up quite a bit

Many thanks

Re: Beaver tail forend

Posted by Tom Martin on February 24, 2019, 8:39 am, in reply to "Beaver tail forend"

Travis: the drawings for the metal parts of the BT fore end are included in the book "Plans and Specifications of the LC Smith Shotgun" by Brophy. I have used the plans to make the necessary parts once in the past to convert the metal pieces of a splinter FE to a BT. I have the book, but no meams of copying the pertinent page either in digital or hard copy.

Re: Beaver tail forend

Posted by Travis Smith on February 24, 2019, 9:21 am, in reply to "Re: Beaver tail forend"

I have the plans book but the picture helped make sense of a little confusion I had.

Many thanks

Travis

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