Last night the only work that I was able to get done on the stock was the start of the butt pad. I wanted to keep it as cheap as possible. I ended up using a cutting board which was purchased for $2.59 and a pair of black flip flops purchased for $2.50. The cutting board material was just so I had something hard essentially plastic so I could take it on and off if needed. I pretty much have a spacer system anytime I want this way.
For the padding itself I needed something that would hold up and that was soft. No so much for the recoil on this rifle but in the future on heavier recoiling calibers. I figured if a flip flop could hold up to 150-300 lbs walking around on it all summer and hold up it should work just fine.
I used my jig saw to cut both of these out. I stuck it in my vice upside down and essentially used it like a scroll saw.
This still needs some more shaping but it proves the point to myself that it will work. I will eventually epoxy the flip flop piece to the cutting board material and then paint it.
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Today I was able to sneak down stairs and bed the rifle. It’s still curing right now, I will pop it loose in the morning.
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The front action bolt will be pillar bedded as you can see in the above picture. I did not pillar bed the rear in the conventional sense because of how the savage sear and centerfeed magazine system work on that rear action screw. So what I did was oversize the hole in the stock for the rear action screw and used the trigger guard to align everything thing using the bolt you can see. If it works out like I’m planning then the epoxy will flow and make its own pillar in the rear.
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Thanks