1st post! Ishapore 2a1 sporter restoration

[henry r]

peter, a complete novice question here. with a twisted forend, would it be acceptable to plane down the high side, build up the low side, plug and re-drill the mount holes for the centre spring, nosecap and reseat the nosecap square. aka leave the wood twisted but re align/ true up the areas it contacts other parts of the rifle?

i understand that replacing the forend would be the army way, but over here even well used (ROUGH) full wood forends sell for around $250+ each on that auction site. plus they aren't making any more.

basically the thought of scrapping one full wood forend let alone two makes me cringe.