Years ago, I bought an Argentine .43 Spanish RB in excellent condition. It proved to be an excellent shooter with 375 and 470 gr bullets - a real 'kicker' with the latter! The cartridge is the ballistic twin of the 44-77 Sharps, making you wonder why Remington bothered to make two such similar rounds.
But, it tended to lead up a bit near the muzzle of the 36" barrel. I had 6" cut off and recrowned the barrel. I also cut back the military stock to 'musketoon' length, refitting the steel nose cap. Again, it shot well, the leading problem solved, but I found it to be butt ugly and lost interest in it.
I've tried to sell it a few times with no takers. Then I ran across a picture of a 'de-militarized' RB .....
I cut the long fore stock to 3-3/4" ahead of the rear barrel band and reshaped it to resemble the end of the stock on Springfield Trapdoor carbines and Spencers. That's about 1/2 longer than on those guns, but due to the longer barrel, I though it more esthetically pleasing. It would have been historically correct to have given it a 'schnabble' on a splinter fore stock, but I've never cared for that look.
I plugged the ram rod hole with a sanded down dowel and filled the slot with a piece of wood from the scrapped fore stock. Mixing some of the sawdust with white glue gave me a 'poor man's' AccraGlas to fill in small voids. After final shaping and sanding, I stained it with mahogany leather dye and waxed it. Looks like it was arsenal done.
I think I have a keeper now .....