When you go dowel shopping, your local hardware store/big box will have a good selection of 'twin-plunger tube' epoxies. The open working-to-cure time starts at five minutes, and up to 60 min. Labeled accordingly. The gives you an easy ten minutes of flow and jockey around time, and plent of clamp time. Set up the clamp pads and adjustments before you mix epoxy. Also, blue painter's tpe is a good way to mask off the stock grip, except for the cracks. Nothing like an undiscovered epoxy fingerprint cured where only a CSI investigator would love it.

When laying out the twin tracks from the push-tubes, keep them as equal as possible in volume. some brands are way stiffer in mix in one side, than the other. also, make more than you think you need, if you don't do this a lot. Goober it pretty good down in those holes, and I pump the dowek\l a bit to hydraulic the poxy into the smallest crack.

Even the simplest clamp with good pads, even improvised ones, warrants a good tight joing. You don't want a nice 1/8" epoxy fill where a nearly hairline crack was! ;~`)

Vinegar is a good clean up, on uncured goo, and I keep a wet rag of it handy, for those 'Oh S" moments, while working. Also, once the stuff has reached the pretty still, but plaiable stage, I carefully pare away and outflow form the crack, but do not pull, slice clean and parallel.

Anyway, if that all seems a little OCD, it's only because if something coulda gone wrong wrong in the process, I prolly had did it, or will, yet. Happy fixing. BTW, when ever-ever I ship lever guns, and I have anything to say about the packing, I like to remove the butt-stock. This appears fairly common damage, and for not being a gunsmith, I've fixed too many of them, for such breaks to be entirely random happenings.

I tried this method on the less damaged of the two stocks. I had to use a very small dowel and drilled two holes. Just to be on the safe side I'm not going to touch it until tomorrow morning, then we will see how it worked.

I rubbed candle wax on the finish adjacent to the crack, hopefully that will act as a release agent. Luckily I don't have much excess in that area, most of the excess is where it won't show when assembled.

Thank You!

I don't think so, but it is common to see broken stocks due to shipping damage. It's partly cause by poor packaging.

Imagine if you laid the rifle on it's side, with the barrel up on a log. Then you stomp on the receiver hard enough to crack the stock sideways. That's the type of break on both of these stocks, and I had Winchester 94XTR arrive with a badly broken stock a few years ago, same type of damage but that one broken completely in two.

It's easy to remove the butt stock on a Marlin to prevent this, and that's how I ship any lever guns these days.