Installed the Nose Cap:

The nose cap was positioned onto the top of the barrel to indicate placement. A line was drawn around the end of the stock. A small saw was used to cut down to a depth of the nose cap's thickness.  Wood was removed and then the inside of the cap was blackened. 

  Next I located the center of the bottom flat of the nose cap and made a mark where I wanted to pin the nose cap to the stock. 

Then took a copper rivet and shaped it to fit the bottom barrel flat of the stock and fit into the 5.32" hole drilled for the rivet thru the cap and the stock.

The stock was then inletted for the rivet.   The outside hole for the rivet was champhered so when the rivet was peened, it would fill the hole and hold the cap in place.   

The rivet was inserted into thru the hole and the cap. The barrel was placed back into the stock and pinned into place. This served as an anvil for the rivet, so I could peen the end of the rivet. 

Here is a quick photo after I peened the rivet and started to file the rivet flush. The photo on the right is the finished rivet filed flush. Notice it almost disappears.

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