I have been mulling over ways to get wood stocks for my 880s and 1977s for a long time now. Daisy only offered wood furniture on a limited number of some model air rifles and there is no aftermarket solution either. I originally thought of making my own but drilling the drawbar hole is challenging and would require making a fixture to drill it straight.
Even with that sorted the time, skill, and tools required to make a decent stock are not insignificant. I then wandered if stocks for a shotgun could possibly work. Unfortunately there is not much information available about the stock interface of various shotgun make and models. I decided to order a Mossberg 500 stock and see if it could be done. As it turns out it can and works very well. The stock needs one minor modification to work. There is a raised circle at the matting surface that needs to be removed. Once that is removed an adapter can be placed on the stock and then the stock can be mounted to the Daisy receiver. One note, the stock mounting plate that goes in the receiver only works for metal receivers. To install this on newer plastic receiver guns the receivers must be swapped for metal receivers which require filing around the loading port to fit due to the larger loading port.
I am going to use this stock on my 25 cal 1977 (1925) but will be mounting it on a vintage 880 for demonstration here. The first thing to do is remove the raised portion seen in the pic above. I used a wood chisel, but a file or sand paper would do.
Once the raised portion is removed an adapter is put on the stock prior to installation. The adapter can be found here on the Thingiverse Page.
At this point the stock can be screwed into the mounting plate in the receiver. The mounting plates can be bought from Ronno6 at the Gateway-To-Airguns. Ron makes the same plates that Daisy used on it's wood stock guns and happens to used the same 3/8 thread as used in the Mossberg stocks.
