What kind of rifle butt stock do I have here?

[eublepharis]

I asked this on the TC pistols forum, and Kieth suggested I check over here, so I copied and pasted here.  Sorry that this is a repeat for those of you who check both forums.

I am a newbie to here, and relatively new to contenders.  I've enjoyed reading the years worth of knowledge here and it occurred to me someone here may be able to tell me what I have here.  When I bought my first contender (used 3030 Super 14 contender hunter package) the guy gave me a few extra pistol grips and fores along with a rifle butt stock that he  said was for a contender also.  To be honest, I have not even tried seating my frame in it yet, but assume it is for contender.  It has a Fajen butt plate on it.  I'll try to attach pics. 

Can anyone tell me if this is a T/C stock w/Fajen butt plate, Fajen stock or someones custom job?  Any help is appreciated.

Dan

[Ladobe]

It's certainly possible it is a Reinhart Fajen stock made for a Contender.   They made quite a few standard pistol and carbine models for Contenders as well as took custom orders for them.   Was a great company to deal with know for their quality, and I had several rifle stocks and gripe/stock sets for Contenders I got directly from them going back over 45 years ago.   Still have an old Fajen Victory stock on one of my Remington XP-100's.  Sold my other XP stocks and all the Contender sets to collectors not too long ago, so they served me well for many years.    Somewhere in storage is a late 60's/early 70's Fajen catalog with well worn pages I spent many hours pondering orders over.    Enter Potterfield and an era of great stockmaking was cut into many small pieces.


Saved this off GunBroker a few years ago.   Was posted 11/21/2004 by one of the moderators there - nononsense.

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Some brief bits of history:

Reinhart Fajen was a stockmaker from Warsaw Missouri. He created a fairly sizable custom stockmaking/fitting company that was world renowned for quality. Just down the road was another custom stocking company named Bishop. Both companies existed nicely, making fine stocks available in various forms to the general public as well as private manufacturers. Some time in the 80's, the two combined to become a single company and shortly after that, Larry Potterfield (owner of Midway) bought that company and held it under the umbrella company of Battenfeld Technologies.

Potterfield built a state-of-the-art, CNC stockmaking factory in Missouri hoping to capitalize on the names of both the Bishop Co. and Reinhart Fajen. As has happened in the near past with the accumulation of too many small companies, his eyes were bigger than his stomach and he had to shutter the operation of Fajen Stocks. Battenfeld Technologies retains some of the machines to produce some plywood stocks under the name Fajen mostly for Mausers and 10/22's. The rest of the machines and inventory were sold. The man that ran Fajen's custom shop under Larry Potterfield, bought some of the machines and set up his own semi-custom/custom stockmaking company:

Show-Me Gunstocks
Route 3 South
Wanta Linga
Warsaw, MO 65355
Phone: 660-438-4568
Fax: 660-438-4569
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L.