Hummer70
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To fit me I need a rifle with about a 12" LOP and most plastic stocks do not lend themselves to being shortened and I suggested to a buddy who designed stocks at Remington that they be able to be shortened and he designed the stocks with the spacers in them.
Apparently he also did something with the other stocks as the Remington Varmint stocks and the 7600 plastic stock can be shortened as there are columns with fairly deep pilot holes that go deep into the buttstock.and a stock could be shortened up to two inches if needed.
This is how I did mine. I also used another Remington design idea taken from their 40X target stocks which had the butt plates slant forward on the bottom of the stock to ;fit the shooter's shoulders better and I like a little more angle so this is how I did mine.
The finished LOP on this stock is 11 7/8" and helps in faster placement for offhand shots.
I am going to go back and dress down the mounting screws a tad so they will fit flush. I also changed screws to a smaller diameter screw and shorter so if in the future the holes wore I could go back with original screws (which appear to be common dry wall screws) to snug up the plate.
The plate is 11 gauge steel (a tad thinner than 1/8". Took me about two hours to locate screw holes, drill them in place, bolt stock to plate and scribe the outter edge of stock then rough cut it out on vertical band saw and dress to almost the scribe lines and finished off with a edge sander. I radiused the outer edge with a vertical 1" belt sander.
I replaced factory screws with a small diameter screw and will have to either turn down screw heads or get a different counter sink to make the screws flush. I have three other Remingtons I have done this to. The plastic Remington varmint stocks are made like this but the sporters I have looked at do not but I replace them with varmint stocks anyway as they are too flimsy for my liking.
If anyone would like to see how I located holes and did the scribe lines let me know and I will post pics of the process and how I located the holes.
Apparently he also did something with the other stocks as the Remington Varmint stocks and the 7600 plastic stock can be shortened as there are columns with fairly deep pilot holes that go deep into the buttstock.and a stock could be shortened up to two inches if needed.
This is how I did mine. I also used another Remington design idea taken from their 40X target stocks which had the butt plates slant forward on the bottom of the stock to ;fit the shooter's shoulders better and I like a little more angle so this is how I did mine.
The finished LOP on this stock is 11 7/8" and helps in faster placement for offhand shots.
I am going to go back and dress down the mounting screws a tad so they will fit flush. I also changed screws to a smaller diameter screw and shorter so if in the future the holes wore I could go back with original screws (which appear to be common dry wall screws) to snug up the plate.
The plate is 11 gauge steel (a tad thinner than 1/8". Took me about two hours to locate screw holes, drill them in place, bolt stock to plate and scribe the outter edge of stock then rough cut it out on vertical band saw and dress to almost the scribe lines and finished off with a edge sander. I radiused the outer edge with a vertical 1" belt sander.
I replaced factory screws with a small diameter screw and will have to either turn down screw heads or get a different counter sink to make the screws flush. I have three other Remingtons I have done this to. The plastic Remington varmint stocks are made like this but the sporters I have looked at do not but I replace them with varmint stocks anyway as they are too flimsy for my liking.
If anyone would like to see how I located holes and did the scribe lines let me know and I will post pics of the process and how I located the holes.
