Gunsmithing JP Sauer shotgun help

[rcr]

Anyone know how to take the buttstock off a JP Sauer side by side shotgun. It looks almost identical to a Merkel. There is no stockbolt.

There is a screw under the trigger guard that will loosen the stock and let me slide the stock 1/2 cm back but then it gets caught on something.

I've gone through it cocked and uncocked and it didn't make any difference.

Thanks
Rick

 

[new_guy]

Re: JP Sauer shotgun help

Depending on the vintage, I would suspect it has a wrist pin, rather than a through-bolt.

A "through-bolt" is accessed from underneath the butt pad. If there's a visible bolt there, then that and the trigger guard screws are the only thing holding the stock against the action.

If there's no bolt under the butt pad, then it's a wrist pin, and that sounds like what you have.

The wrist pin is accessed from the bottom tang (after removing the trigger guard), and the pin must be completely removed to allow the stock to come off the gun.

There should be no "play" or movement of the stock to the action with the pin in place. The fact that your stock moves a bit tells me that there is probably some wear to the hole in the wood through which the wrist pin travels. That's not too big of a deal, as it can be glassed back to tighten the stock.

Hope that helps.

 

[rcr]

Re: JP Sauer shotgun help

You got it. Wrist pin. So when I take out the wrist pin the stock becomes loose but I can't side it off the action. I don't know what else to unscrew or remove to get it all the way off.

I know in the old Fox's you have to take the trigger/screws/sears apart to get it off. I not really enthusiastic about that if it is the case.

Rick