A while back I thought a cut down version of my .300 blackout suppresesd(subsonic) would be a good gun for my soon to be 5 year old grandson for pigs this season. What I have is a bolt action Ruger American.
I put out a WTB a stock for the gun and Cabezablanca came through. For the cost of shipping I had my new stock. Looking at it, it looked just like my original...almost(went undetected).
I had a few folks wanted to see how I cut down the stock to fit. So I took a few pictures.
during the process I was trying to sell my house and my garage was in worse shape than normal, so my table/work area was a box.
what I used was an old scroll saw I had.
I penciled in the lines on the stock where I wanted to cut.
I actually had to make the cuts twice per cut. This was because the heat from the saw blade would fuse the stock back together.
After cutting stock.
for the new buttstock, I used a piece of plastic from an unused thrash can.
after outlining the buttplate I used the scrollsaw to cut out the piece needed.
I mixed some 2 part epoxy to glue the buttplate on and rigged up a tension system till it dried.
I took a mouse pad and cut it to fit the buttplate and glued it on as well. As a "recoil pad"
I painted the stock and fitted the barrell onto the stock. it fit well and bolted up just fine.
that is the good news...the bad news...the bolt would not function. after looking closer to the stocks. I saw that the original had a "2 piece" area where the magazine fit in.
the new one was one piece. The magazine fit just fine, but there is some subtle differences internal to fit and finnish inside the stock to make the bolt not function.
So I guess I am back to the drawing board for another stock. Oh well...such is life.
I put out a WTB a stock for the gun and Cabezablanca came through. For the cost of shipping I had my new stock. Looking at it, it looked just like my original...almost(went undetected).
I had a few folks wanted to see how I cut down the stock to fit. So I took a few pictures.
during the process I was trying to sell my house and my garage was in worse shape than normal, so my table/work area was a box.
what I used was an old scroll saw I had.
I penciled in the lines on the stock where I wanted to cut.
I actually had to make the cuts twice per cut. This was because the heat from the saw blade would fuse the stock back together.
After cutting stock.
for the new buttstock, I used a piece of plastic from an unused thrash can.
after outlining the buttplate I used the scrollsaw to cut out the piece needed.
I mixed some 2 part epoxy to glue the buttplate on and rigged up a tension system till it dried.
I took a mouse pad and cut it to fit the buttplate and glued it on as well. As a "recoil pad"
I painted the stock and fitted the barrell onto the stock. it fit well and bolted up just fine.
that is the good news...the bad news...the bolt would not function. after looking closer to the stocks. I saw that the original had a "2 piece" area where the magazine fit in.
the new one was one piece. The magazine fit just fine, but there is some subtle differences internal to fit and finnish inside the stock to make the bolt not function.
So I guess I am back to the drawing board for another stock. Oh well...such is life.
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