Hopefully, I have time this weekend to work on the tang.
Will need to cut about an inch or so off of it, then I can bend it and make its inlet. Then round off the top of the stock near the breech and get the ugly hump off of it.
It's already about an 1/8" too high as is, so it should profile down nicely.
Need to straighten out the bottom of the butt from plate to the action as well. I wish now I would have flipped the lumber and got that close grain away from the bottom end. It is a "chip" waiting to happen, even with a butt plate.
(Actually, it already did a little, but I'm still shaping the brass and wood together through there, so I don't know how much of a deal it will be.)
