FrankK
08-24-2017, 04:20 PM
Hello, this is my first real post. I have a 116 weather warrior and it felt too short, I have hit myself in the face a few times with the scope and it was causing some bad habits, so I decided to lengthen the stock. I'm 6'4" and lanky and enjoy long walks on the beach and shooting deer. As far as shooting deer goes I couldn't find any post on lengthening this stock so I ordered some generic spacers from Brownells and got to fabricating.
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This is what the pad looks like on my stock. I put new screws in it, the originals stuck out 3/4"
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It goes in here like a cork.
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Here is my jig and one of the generic spacers. The jig is a piece of plywood with two machine bolts from the hardware store put through it. To measure the distance of my jig, I pushed the machine bolts through each hole in the recoil pad and set the pad on the plywood, then gave each bolt a light tap with a hammer. This left two slight imprints in the plywood, that I drilled out for the perfect bolt spacing to layer up my stock extension.
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Here are the four pieces that stack up to extend the stock. The piece that is on the jig will end up inside the accu-stock, the two big pieces will make up the middle, and the piece in the back that is like a ring is what the recoil pad will fit into, just like it did in the accu-stock.
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The jig lines everything up. However the ring piece that the recoil pad goes into is lined up by the recoil pad. Since I didn't want to epoxy it all together with the recoil pad installed, I used a couple of drill bits as alignment pins. You can see I drilled through the ring piece and into the next spacer. The drill bits can be flipped over into their holes when you epoxy it together so the ring piece will line up where you had it with the recoil pad installed.
I roughened the surfaces and wipes them down with acetone before epoxying the layers together. Acetone will break down certain plastics, so I would have used something milder if I had it.
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Here it is all glued together. My ringed piece was too shallow for the recoil pad to fully seat, so i built the edge up with three layers of epoxy and fiberglass cloth. That is why the lip of the ring is shiny and there is a white line around it.
Thats as far as I've gotten. It all fits up nice and screws down, so now I'll sand, file everything down to match and get back later.
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://9fa47415-84f1-4eea-a93e-ac1ed37db79a/imagejpeg
This is what the pad looks like on my stock. I put new screws in it, the originals stuck out 3/4"
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://b6674748-101f-4c9d-a220-82210da7c656/imagejpeg
It goes in here like a cork.
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://9f1b2120-c09a-409e-b957-ba23bd9a0347/imagejpeg
Here is my jig and one of the generic spacers. The jig is a piece of plywood with two machine bolts from the hardware store put through it. To measure the distance of my jig, I pushed the machine bolts through each hole in the recoil pad and set the pad on the plywood, then gave each bolt a light tap with a hammer. This left two slight imprints in the plywood, that I drilled out for the perfect bolt spacing to layer up my stock extension.
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://7d46d7d3-c06d-4ee6-a19f-1fb19b3257a2/imagejpeg
Here are the four pieces that stack up to extend the stock. The piece that is on the jig will end up inside the accu-stock, the two big pieces will make up the middle, and the piece in the back that is like a ring is what the recoil pad will fit into, just like it did in the accu-stock.
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://f3dd3b6f-787e-4a5b-9075-5ab96847020a/imagejpeg
The jig lines everything up. However the ring piece that the recoil pad goes into is lined up by the recoil pad. Since I didn't want to epoxy it all together with the recoil pad installed, I used a couple of drill bits as alignment pins. You can see I drilled through the ring piece and into the next spacer. The drill bits can be flipped over into their holes when you epoxy it together so the ring piece will line up where you had it with the recoil pad installed.
I roughened the surfaces and wipes them down with acetone before epoxying the layers together. Acetone will break down certain plastics, so I would have used something milder if I had it.
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://ca40c59a-df83-431a-a035-f95ef3a29e42/imagejpeg
http://www.savageshooters.com/webkit-fake-url://d7811529-3f60-488a-a54c-a5050224944e/imagejpeg
Here it is all glued together. My ringed piece was too shallow for the recoil pad to fully seat, so i built the edge up with three layers of epoxy and fiberglass cloth. That is why the lip of the ring is shiny and there is a white line around it.
Thats as far as I've gotten. It all fits up nice and screws down, so now I'll sand, file everything down to match and get back later.