“the original wood stock got so banged up riding around in a fiberglass canoe”
NO! You had it in a canoe AND IT DIDN’T FALL OVERBOARD?? That is a first of the greatest magnitude!
A FIREARM THAT DIDN’T FALL OVERBOARD!!!
I never dumped one. A friend of mine dropped the magazine tube from his 94-22 and had to go swamp diving in January. He came out almost robin egg blue, that water up under the trees is cold.
I used to have one of those too, but . . .