Rossi Rifleman

Has any one successfully modified a Winchester 1892 Butt stock to fit our Rossi? If so, how much was involved.
The Winchester stocks are plentiful, and still being made. And maybe the fore stocks?

are the Winchesters metric?


jd

No they aren't.

Does being metric or not matter for chunks of wood?

With the FN/FAL there are a few differences between the 'metric' and the 'inch' pattern rifles.
It's stupid but there are some differences even if you keep the same measurements when you change systems like the fact that thread patterns used with one system is typically completely incompatible with the other.

So in response to the question does it matter with a block of wood which measurement system you use as long as the size and the shape does not change? Nope.

That said, I have on occasion worked with engineers who wanted to use whole numbers or even sizes or some other quirk. One of these individuals simply rounded to the nearest inch with regards to bulkhead installation points. Fine and dandy until you NEED a bulkhead at exactly 137.5" for example. IF you get one of these numb nuts who is doing the conversion on a rifle then instead of a half inch they may decide to make a measurement 12 mm when it should be 12.7 mm. They may change the size of certain pins or widths across flats or whatever they think in their tiny little minds doesn't really matter.

IF the blueprints are dual dimensioned and the person who did the work was careful to use the same end tolerance bands then it doesn't matter. IF on the other hand the builders are working to a modified print or there's an error in translation then you may have complete incompatibility.

For example, I once had a discussion regarding a Boeing drawing that was being used by a manufacturer in Japan to supply parts to Boeing. By the letter of the dimensions on the drawing and the notes there was a range of about +/- 9/16ths of an inch in where a hole we were interested in could be in the part and the part was supposedly still acceptable. In other words that hole could vary over an INCH in where it ended up on a part that was supposed to MATCH within .030 of an inch to another part on the airplane. Our problem was, for our purposes if that hole was more than about .060" off from where it needed to be then a rather expensive bit of rotating machinery would rip itself to shreds.