1897 Project No. 1

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Numrich is fast. FedEx man just dropped off adpater+heat shield assemblies. First appearance they look good. The bayonet adapters show light casting marks. nothing that can't be polished outs. The rivets are ground flush - barely visible on the outside, but of course that area wasn't polished then to match the rest of the heat shield. I haven't checked the fit yet on my barrels, but if it's good, then there is only some OCD things - polish down the front of the heat shield, sand off the casting marks, need to grind down the seam from the casting mould that goes right through the middle of the bead, and re-blue. None of that stops us from assembling and shooting. If Mr. Schwartz shield lives up to my expectations, why then I'm not very far away in parts from being able to make a separate forend for each of my x2 97's, and one for my model 12.

I've decide to keep the stock on this one - other than the splinter on the wrist, it's in good shape, no crack, and hasn't been shortened. I'll fix the splinter easy enough. I decided to put on a hard rubber butt...but the one I have the bottom is flat, and there is a slight curve to the butt (vertically). The buttplate it wore was hard plastic, but no logo, seems thicker, and very chewed up, but had the right profile to fit the curved buttstock. Tom might you pretty please post some close up pictures at different angles of your butts? I need to decide if I will flatten the buttstock, or heat the buttplate to curve it to match.