Top screw gives me best alignment for grinding the buttplate back down, lower hole no longer aligns so I drill a new lower hole and will have to plug the unused one with oak dowel later. Yes, Phillips head buttplate screws are factory correctness.
Leaving my duct tape on to prevent gouges, I rough in the buttplate shape on the big bench sander and finish up close with the jitter bug. I'll remove the tape to fully refinish the stock later.
A healthy wad of balled up 0000 steel wool is driven about 1" down the freshly cleaned out space tween the barrels.....this is done with epoxy fill or solder, keeps stuff from runnin all the way down to the clean out holes at the back end!
Good old JB weld, the original, not the quik set, is mixed up. Lots will go in that 1" hole there, mebby a 2" long strip of each color to fill it and have a bit left over. Fill, tamp with a small toothpick to get the air bubbles out, fill, tamp, fill, tamp, etc. Tape keeps the epoxy out of the bores and off the rib and nice bluing. Stand it upright at room temp for about 6 hours to set, 15 to 24 till ya shoot it.
One more shot of the roughed in Front Sling Swivel Mount.
Beauty Shots! 19 3/4 barrel and just shy of 35" overall without the Gooy Soft Limb Saver I'm pickin up at WallHell tomorrow. Dunno the weight, light I think. Got just 5 5/8" left in the draw bolt hole for a recoil reduce iffin we need one.
Careful wit that thing, ye'll shoot yer knee off.
Leaving my duct tape on to prevent gouges, I rough in the buttplate shape on the big bench sander and finish up close with the jitter bug. I'll remove the tape to fully refinish the stock later.
A healthy wad of balled up 0000 steel wool is driven about 1" down the freshly cleaned out space tween the barrels.....this is done with epoxy fill or solder, keeps stuff from runnin all the way down to the clean out holes at the back end!
Good old JB weld, the original, not the quik set, is mixed up. Lots will go in that 1" hole there, mebby a 2" long strip of each color to fill it and have a bit left over. Fill, tamp with a small toothpick to get the air bubbles out, fill, tamp, fill, tamp, etc. Tape keeps the epoxy out of the bores and off the rib and nice bluing. Stand it upright at room temp for about 6 hours to set, 15 to 24 till ya shoot it.
One more shot of the roughed in Front Sling Swivel Mount.
Beauty Shots! 19 3/4 barrel and just shy of 35" overall without the Gooy Soft Limb Saver I'm pickin up at WallHell tomorrow. Dunno the weight, light I think. Got just 5 5/8" left in the draw bolt hole for a recoil reduce iffin we need one.
Careful wit that thing, ye'll shoot yer knee off.