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I'm giving away some guns that came to me from my grandparents. My maternal granddad bought a Winchester Model 37 single barrel shotgun sometime in the 1930's, he told me he paid $12.50 for it. It was handed down to me but along the way it was really abused by family members at turkey shoots.

Turkey shoots back then involved drinking and gambling and very little gun maintenance.

I'm repairing it as best I can before Christmas as a gift to my oldest nephew. Doubt it will be used much if any but I'd like to get the stock solid enough so it won't just fall apart if they decide to use it some.

Progress pics from a redneck gunplumber....

Both sides of the wrist were broken out.


Flattened the missing areas.


Drilled some cracks for dowel rod, the rod will force the glue into the cracks.



Patches epoxied in.


Patches/dutchman worked down.


Preping for "bedding" the action.


I'll post some more later if anyone is interested. Sorry I didn't get a before pic of the gun.