Front Tang wrong replacement stock

[Bhaldeman]

Greetings,
I was gifted a T/C .50 Renegade with a cracked stock, through and through, with a replacement stock. However after finishing the stock and putting everything back together I found out the front tang screw hole is bored straight through. Therefore having no wood to grip onto. Would it be ok to glue a dowel in the hole and shoot it that way?

 

[FishDFly]

M. De Land,

Send a PM to the above, he is very knowledgeable in such things.

 

[Bhaldeman]

M. De Land,

Send a PM to the above, he is very knowledgeable in such things.

Thank you

 

[Bhaldeman]

 

[bang]

Thought front screw typically picked up trigger plate?

 

[Musketeer]

Thought front screw typically picked up trigger plate?

This should be the case. The front screw (bolt) should go all the way through the stock and thread into the trigger plate.

 

[SDSmlf]

That’s part of a TC design change to stop stocks from cracking through the lockplate area. The new tang screw goes through the stock and trigger plate and treads into the trigger guard. You could put an insert or nut in the trigger mortise to accept a machine screw. Epoxy the insert or nut in place. I have modified a number of older TC stocks with threaded inserts to reduce the chance of cracking a stock. Here are some photographs showing my process. Still allows use of the old trigger plate and you don’t have to drill and tap the trigger guard.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

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This should be the case. The front screw (bolt) should go all the way through the stock and thread into the trigger plate.

Bhaldeman,
Musketeer is right on. The gun was designed for the bolt to go through the tang/stock and be threaded into the trigger plate. Any other method is a a shortchange of correct method.
Flintlocklar

 

[Musketeer]

For reference, here's a pic of where the tang bolt threads into the trigger plate on my Pedersoli Harper's Ferry percussion pistol. The Pedersoli Bess is assembled the same way, but the hole is hidden by the trigger guard. According to SDS, the bolt on your gun threads into the trigger guard, so a similar concept, just a different threading location. In any case, you should be able to slide the bolt down through the hole in the stock and have it thread into something (the trigger guard in your case). If the tang bolt is not threading into anything when you try to install it, you could have a slight misalignment that's not allowing the two to properly mate (maybe the hole in the new stock is a hair off from where the original was?).

 

[SDSmlf]

you should be able to slide the bolt down through the hole in the stock and have it thread into something (the trigger guard in your case).

This is possible, but the older TC triggers have a spring that gets in the way. Later production TC triggers relocated the spring and have a clearance hole through the trigger plate for the tang screw to be able to reach the trigger guard. Davis Deerslayer triggers also have the clearance hole. Found drilling and tapping into the trigger guard a bit of a PIA compared to putting an insert or two in the trigger mortise for the tang screws, at least in my experience.

 

[Bhaldeman]

Thank you all for the recommendations.