Longtitudinal Crack in Fore-end forward of Trigger Guard

[tbonesmith]

It’s a bit late now, but opening the crack and getting glue intonation t is absolutely essential to this sort of repair. The dowel should reinforce the repair not be the repair. May I suggest that you drill out the dowels you have put in forward of the crush collar, open the crack and get some good wood glue or epoxy in there, clamp it up and redowell after the glue cures with the next size up of dowell!

Regarding the repair at the rear I feel that might give you trouble too, I’ve posted a similar repair to that before, but I think you’ll find that with the whole area collapsed as it appears, there’s more to it than you’ve addressed. I’ll try to post the pics of what I’d suggest you try at the rear

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