I had one as my rabbit board rifle, I hated the 10/22 as issued so opted for my own. We got an "allowance" for using your own gear in those days.
Broke the stock and bent the barrel one night doing an endo on the motorbike, did the same to the shottie. Got the rifle replaced on insuranc and the stock replaced on the shottie.
At the time we had an ex armourer on the board and he restocked the shottie for me and made the Stirling shoot like a demon!
Sold it in a duh moment and bought a 10/22 target model.
The Stirling had one of the scopes of the period ( still have it) 4 x 32 Kasna, tubes bent but it still holds a zero for a while, used to get a fair bashing on the handle bar carried down the scabbard.
Thanks for sharing @Dundee bought back some memories for me.
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