Adjustable LOP Tacticool/Pro-Varmint
Mar 15, 2015 15:43:36 GMT -5
Post by 7mmfreak on Mar 15, 2015 15:43:36 GMT -5
I understand that a .22LR has absolutely nothing to do with Smokeless Muzzleloading, but shooting is shooting, and the more your guns feel like each other the more easily you can go between them. I haven't done much shooting since about the first week of January as I have worked every weekend but two. In anticipation of getting my bullet making dies soon and my barreled action back from Hankins I decided to overhaul my trainer to more closely mimic my most utilized stocks: McMillan Game Scout, McMillan A3, Manners T6A, and Boyd's Tacticool.
Here are the stocks this trainer will replicate:
I posted the thread on the Green Beanie with the Tacticool to show how I re-shape and reinforce that type of stock. The Pierce action that Hankins is barreling will go in a McMillan A3 they happened to have in stock after someone cancelled their order: Rem700SA, single-shot, Krieger HV with 2.5" cylinder. It happens to be almost perfect except I will have to open the barrel channel since I have what is essentially an HV with 5" cylinder. All I have to do is pillar-bed that stock, cut flute for the ramrod, and install a pad to replace this LOP kit. What inspired this overhaul is that the A3 came with an Adjustable LOP kit and a Pachmayr 500B Presentation pad. That won't do on a .458 SML but will do nicely on a trainer rifle.
The other reason I chose to do this is the good reception of the work done on the Green Beanie. I'm not the most talented guy in the world but can do a bit of stuff. Guys here build guns for their kids from time to time and this LOP kit is a legitimate way to make that gun grown with them. I don't have kids and don't want them but nearly had to adopt a couple of nephews and a niece last year plus my brother is going to have a kid soon so I'm sure some kid will want to shoot one of my guns someday. I just thought maybe a stock to grow on would make for a good thread.
This is the stock that came on the rifle so it has to go since it isn't like anything I shoot:
It was replaced with a Tacticool (the rimfire is about a 7/8 scale of the one used on CF and SML guns):
Here are the pad off the Boyd's and the McMillan along with the spacer kit (2 x .25"-spacer and 2 x .5" spacer):
The LOP kit can give about 1.5" of play and total length is 1 7/8" with pad:
I cut 1 3/8 off the rimfire with a 2° pitch:
One thing I keep finding with Boyds is that things are never straight. Here the center-line is marked and you can see where the pad was screwed to the stock. Just the bottom of the holes are still there but offset left:
The LOP kit and pad from the McMillan are larger than the pad on the Boyds. I taped a level with a v-block to the comb and pulled the LOP kit up snug to it so I have as high a center-line as possible. I will fill that in later:
I incorporated 1/4" toe out and pinned it with a brad nail so that I could drill the screw holes so that they snugly hold the spacer kit:
With pad in place you can see the gap that will need to be filled to create a solid comb and keep a high cente-rline:
I'm not sure why but the toe line on all of these Tacticools have been sloped. I do not understand why but it is something I usually plane down to make flat. This one will get cut down on the sides and built up at the toe to match the contour of the spacer kit:
Now we have the start of a stock that will go from 12.25" to 13.75":
Now I need to make a plate for the but so I can install screw bushings and a seal the stock. The void in the rear of the comb needs to be built up and the toe needs to be filled and reshaped. After that I will install an adjustable cheek-piece; still haven't decided if I am doing another Kydex or if I am going to cut it and install a KMW Loggerhead. I will bed weight into the stock to bring total weight up and balance the gun out. Then I need to billar bed it. When it is all finished it will look like the runt of this threesome but otherwise indistinguishable.
Here are the stocks this trainer will replicate:
I posted the thread on the Green Beanie with the Tacticool to show how I re-shape and reinforce that type of stock. The Pierce action that Hankins is barreling will go in a McMillan A3 they happened to have in stock after someone cancelled their order: Rem700SA, single-shot, Krieger HV with 2.5" cylinder. It happens to be almost perfect except I will have to open the barrel channel since I have what is essentially an HV with 5" cylinder. All I have to do is pillar-bed that stock, cut flute for the ramrod, and install a pad to replace this LOP kit. What inspired this overhaul is that the A3 came with an Adjustable LOP kit and a Pachmayr 500B Presentation pad. That won't do on a .458 SML but will do nicely on a trainer rifle.
The other reason I chose to do this is the good reception of the work done on the Green Beanie. I'm not the most talented guy in the world but can do a bit of stuff. Guys here build guns for their kids from time to time and this LOP kit is a legitimate way to make that gun grown with them. I don't have kids and don't want them but nearly had to adopt a couple of nephews and a niece last year plus my brother is going to have a kid soon so I'm sure some kid will want to shoot one of my guns someday. I just thought maybe a stock to grow on would make for a good thread.
This is the stock that came on the rifle so it has to go since it isn't like anything I shoot:
It was replaced with a Tacticool (the rimfire is about a 7/8 scale of the one used on CF and SML guns):
Here are the pad off the Boyd's and the McMillan along with the spacer kit (2 x .25"-spacer and 2 x .5" spacer):
The LOP kit can give about 1.5" of play and total length is 1 7/8" with pad:
I cut 1 3/8 off the rimfire with a 2° pitch:
One thing I keep finding with Boyds is that things are never straight. Here the center-line is marked and you can see where the pad was screwed to the stock. Just the bottom of the holes are still there but offset left:
The LOP kit and pad from the McMillan are larger than the pad on the Boyds. I taped a level with a v-block to the comb and pulled the LOP kit up snug to it so I have as high a center-line as possible. I will fill that in later:
I incorporated 1/4" toe out and pinned it with a brad nail so that I could drill the screw holes so that they snugly hold the spacer kit:
With pad in place you can see the gap that will need to be filled to create a solid comb and keep a high cente-rline:
I'm not sure why but the toe line on all of these Tacticools have been sloped. I do not understand why but it is something I usually plane down to make flat. This one will get cut down on the sides and built up at the toe to match the contour of the spacer kit:
Now we have the start of a stock that will go from 12.25" to 13.75":
Now I need to make a plate for the but so I can install screw bushings and a seal the stock. The void in the rear of the comb needs to be built up and the toe needs to be filled and reshaped. After that I will install an adjustable cheek-piece; still haven't decided if I am doing another Kydex or if I am going to cut it and install a KMW Loggerhead. I will bed weight into the stock to bring total weight up and balance the gun out. Then I need to billar bed it. When it is all finished it will look like the runt of this threesome but otherwise indistinguishable.