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1. A gun stock comprising:
(a) a recoil buffer tube receiving sleeve; (b) a butt plate having a lower end, the butt plate extending downwardly from the recoil buffer tube receiving sleeve to an elevation below the recoil buffer tube receiving sleeve; (c) a spool housing fixedly attached to the recoil buffer tube receiving sleeve, the spool housing being further fixedly attached to the butt plate, the spool housing being positioned downwardly from the recoil tube receiving sleeve, the spool housing being further positioned forwardly from the butt plate, the spool housing being further positioned upwardly from said elevation; (d) a spool and means for rotatably mounting the spool within the spool housing; (e) a flexible sling having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end being fixedly attached to the spool; (f) retracting means connected operatively to the spool, the retracting means being adapted for drawing the flexible sling's distal end toward said spool; (g) a first multiplicity of lugs and a first multiplicity of recesses, each recess among the first multiplicity of recesses being bounded by an adjacent pair of the lugs among the first multiplicity of lugs, the first multiplicities of recesses and lugs being fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the spool; and (h) a pawl and actuator combination fixedly attached to the spool housing, said combination being adapted for normally engaging its pawl within one of the recesses among the first multiplicity of recesses. |