Picked up a black powder era Rolling Block barreled action not long ago. Plan is to build a .40-65 Sporting Rifle on the action. The .43 Spanish barrel is perfect, but no interest to me. I already have a .40 caliber Green Mountain full octagon barrel 35" long, that will get cut to 34". Numrich bought all of Remington's leftover parts, so went to their site and ordered a pistol grip lower trigger plate, and a deluxe stock set. The stocks come with casehardened buttplate, and forearm tip. They also are checkered and finished, so hoped they'd be a good fit to my action! I also ordered all the separate parts to assemble a Remington long range vernier tang sight. Very reasonably priced for everything!! Stock sets were under $200, and tang sight parts were around $165.
Yesterday all the parts arrived and in great shape! The stock set is absolutely gorgeous, and cut checkering is really nice! Took a few minutes and assembled the tang sight. It's a nice sight and is very tight, so should work quite well. No windage adjustment, but I prefer windage globes anyway.
I checked the fit of the lower tang to my receiver, and the lower tang is slightly wider by a few thousandths. Wont take much draw filing to get a perfect fit. The stocks are cut for that lower tang, but since they copy a sporting action, the upper tang of my military donor needs to be slimmed down to fit the top inletting. I need to anneal the receiver for polishing anyway, so I'll wait to narrow it after it's annealed. Once the barrel is fitted, and all is polished out, I'll send it off for rust bluing and color case work.
I got the last octagon deluxe forearm they had in stock, and the last complete set of vernier sight parts! Not my usual luck, as normally I order right after they run out of something!
Here's the buttstock Numrich sent: