Half/Full Stock

[paco97]

What is the difference between a Half Stock and a Full Stock? Sorry for such a simple question, but I've been googling this and can't find an answer.

 

[k.jacobfrost]

I'm just a newbie here but this is what I figure on the matter. If I'm wrong, I'm pretty sure the veterans of this site will correct me.

Half stock would be a long gun with a stock that ends a little ways past the lock plate leaving a good portion of the barrel and ramrod exposed.

Full stock would be like the long gun you have in your pick were the stock extends the full length of the barrel.

Hope this helps. If I'm wrong we will find out shortly and I will go back to hiding in the shadows.

Frost

 

[musketman]

What is the difference between a Half Stock and a Full Stock? Sorry for such a simple question, but I've been googling this and can't find an answer.

A half stock is a gun who's stock goes half way up the barrel, like T/C Hawkens and Lyman GPRs...

A full stock is a gun who's stock goes all the way up to the muzzle (or within an inch or so of it), like the brown bess or a Kentucky long rifle...

 

[paco97]

Man, I feel so stupid. I kept looking at the butt end of the stock, thinking that was where the difference laid. Thanks

 

[shortjack]

Dont feel stupid PACO97 if you are trying to learn something new there is no such thing as a stupid question.

 

[renovato]

Paco, hang in there brother. None of us were born knowing this stuff. We all had to ask a lot of questions. I still ask way more than I contribute in return.

 

[davy]

A half stock is a gun who's stock goes half way up the barrel, like T/C Hawkens and Lyman GPRs...

Hey Musketman is that the same as going off half-cocked! or is that another matter entirely! :hmm: :rotf: Sorry guys .. thats the way my pea-brain works sometimes!:shocked2:

Davy

 

[musketman]

Man, I feel so stupid. I kept looking at the butt end of the stock, thinking that was where the difference laid. Thanks

Don't feel that way, muzzleloading terms can be somewhat elusive, we live in a very complex world and by doing so, we get conditioned to over-look the most obvious of answers...

 

[Claude Mathis]

Man, I feel so stupid. I kept looking at the butt end of the stock, thinking that was where the difference laid. Thanks

Don't feel too bad, I thought they were referring to how many trout were in the lake when the truck left! :winking:

 

[WRussell]

And think of how much good you've done by giving some nice folks the opportunity to be informative, nice, and gentle too :thumbsup:

 

[Zonie]

I thought a Full Stock was what I was buying but after the Broker got done with me I ended up with only a Half Stock. :grin:

zonie

Well, it was funny when I wrote it.

 

[Claude Mathis]

I thought a Full Stock was what I was buying but after the Broker got done with me I ended up with only a Half Stock. :grin:

zonie

Well, it was funny when I wrote it.

Almost as bad as my fish joke. Well, maybe worse. :haha: :winking:

 

[faw3]

Dont weve all made some real goofs and just wont own up to it, if ya dont ask or read it ya wont learn and everyone here is here to help ya. :grin: Freed :hatsoff: Musketman nice fullstock what is that?

 

[musketman]

Musketman nice fullstock what is that?

It's a flintlock... :grin:

Its an internet picture of a Lehigh Valley Longrifle from a google search on longrifles, I just needed something with a full stock to use as an example...

 

[flintlockmdj]

He who ask a question feels stupid for five minutes, He who doesn't ask is stupid forever.

 

[Brawdhead]

Man, I feel so stupid. I kept looking at the butt end of the stock, thinking that was where the difference laid. Thanks

Had the same confusion myself when I first encountered the term. (And I also felt pretty foolish when I realized it just referred to the length of the forearm.)

Not quite sure what the advantage is of having a full stock on a rifle (other than that it looks cool).

It's not like you're gonna be placing your support hand that far away.

Maybe they just got in the habit of building them that way. Fullstocks continued to appear (especially on military rifles) into the early 20th century.

Anyone know any practical reason for the fullstock's development (or retention)?

Dan