Rifle Butt Cover

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Is this what you are trying to make? If so I can help.

GrampaJoel - even if that's not quite what the OP was looking for, I'd certainly be interested in a little guidance. I've been tossing around the idea of jazzing up my Marlin 1894 Carbine .357 Mag. with a butt stock cartridge holder, and a wrap around the lever. I think what you've shown could easily be lengthened a bit and some cartridge loops added on...?

[GrampaJoel]

Levergun Leather

The link above is where I got my idea from. There are a lot of butt cuff covers here, and he is a very nice man, and shared his method with me.

1.Lay your rifle flat on some paper and draw around the stock.( to determine the cover wrap length you want)

2. do the same but put just the rifle butt on some paper and draw around it. ( rifle muzzle pointing up)

3. take the first pattern and double it add about 1' and cut out your pattern for the stock wrap cover part.

4. take the butt end paper pattern and cut it out. now use it to make a mold made of wood (from 2X4 works well) to form the butt cuff

5. cut out enough leather and wet mold it over your wood mold. should extend over the edge about 3"

6. take the molded leather off the mold and trim to size. it works well to trim while on the mold also.

7 decorate, and add bullet loops if wanted, finish all edges, and sew everything together. I used 1/4' spacing on my sewing.

I also added eyelets to mine to protect the leather the string goes through.

That's it in a nut shell. It is of course a bit more work than that, but not much. I used 5 strand linen thread and waxed it to sew everything together, but I suppose and good heavy poly (270 or so)thread would work

Anymore question just ask.

I'll add some closeup tomorrow to get a better look at it. But the link above should tell you what you need to know.

Edited November 7, 2009 by GrampaJoel