Park rifles RH91or RH93 - has anyone changed their stock

[Robsno]

I have a park RH 91 and a very good gun it is too. However the stock is a basic beach one and I fancy something different. Ideally in Walnut. Has anyone either found a suitable stock from another air gun maker that has enough wood on it to route out and put the guts of the park into it, or has anyone had a stock made by a custom stock company if so who? I am interested in hearing your experiences. I have compared the stock without the mechanism in to a number of other stocks from Weihrauch et cetera, and most of them do not have sufficient depth for wood in some areas, but different issues for different stocks I looked at.

[Farsight]

I asked on here for the same thing a few weeks ago, so far...not a dickybird !

As far as donor stocks I wondered about a big ,fat, rimfire target, or bench- rest one.

I think I might just pop down to B&Q and get a lump of walnut to hack about.

Atb
Mark

[Muskett]

The 93 has a safety catch thing at the back, which means changing between 92 and 93s leaves a gap.
I found that out the hard way.

I don't know of any other rifle that is even remotely a close fit.
The custom stock makers will make anything you like at the right price; though just buying another Park with wood you like is the cheapest option.

[Robsno]

Looks like I have more clarity now. The more reasonably priced custom rifle stock makers that I contacted said no. Others the prices are just not worth my contacting. My brother-in-law repairs air rifles and has a box with loads of stocks and having taken the stock off to service the rifle (I have a few pages of typed A4 notes on the disassembly, checks and reassembly that I may post later), I took the stock and compared it to his collection. Most of them did not have enough meat to fit the park mechanism although he has given me one new HW 77 stock that it looks like I could use as a donor stock rout out and modify. Initially I have decided to strip back my RH91 stock as the beech stock is quite bland and having used some varnish remover to get the old coloured varnish off and given it a sand so that it is now a white wood, there is actually some quite interesting grain in the stock. So initially I think I will be using a Dremel to make some finger and thumb indentations once I have marked them to add interest. Then before I colour it (think I will go for a medium brown), ad as I cannot do chequerin, I will be doing some experiments with texturing on a piece of hardwood to see if it is worth marking out and texturing the grip.

[Robsno]

Custom makers either not able to make or out of my budget. As my 91 was the plain beech stock with no chequering and little grain showing through the varnish it is now stripped back to bare wood which has a fair bit of natural grain, I have added a texture to the grip along the lines you see on target rifles, now I just need to outline the grip, stain the stock and seal it. Fingers crossed that goes well.