How To Improve Savage Axis Stock

Thread Status:: Not open up for farther replies.

Had a lazy day today so I decided to do some improving on a brutal centrality rifle I but picked up.The rifle shot great but the stock left alot to be desired,and then later disassembly I filled the voids in the forearm with fiberglass resin that seemed to stiffen that up.And so I filled the but stock with some spray cream that took care of the hollow audio.now I cant wait for some range fourth dimension to see if it tightened up the grouping. I'll keep y'all posted
corner27 Member

Joined:

Feb thirteen, 2012

Messages:

1
I tried with stiffen the stock with fiberglass resin made by Bondo. I found that it shrunk too much. When I tested the strength of the stock by trying to twist it a bit, the resin basically came loose and brutal out when I turned the stock over.
What production did you lot utilize? Did you notice whatever shrinkage? Got any pictures?
OP, check out my stock piece of work on a stevens model 200. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=640049
The key to getting anything to stick to that cheap stock material is roughing it upwardly really good with a crude sandpaper.
- Contributing Member
LoonWulf Contributing Member
Every bit Moose said, prep work is a must when trying to drinking glass poly anything. I use fiberglass matting and surfboard resin (more considering i stole it from my father, then considering i remember its better). Helped alot with my 700 SPS stock.
the resin that i used was from 3-M in that location was some shrinkage but i roughed up the plastic real good so it should stay put. But time will tell. I put a bipod on it then I didnt like the fore arm flexing I remember this will work. equally always I'll go along you posted.
Polyester resin will not adhere to plastic with any kind of strength. Rough up the surfaces and use epoxy resin. About 5 times the price and not worth it..
All those inexpensive injection molded stocks flex in the forearm. Information technology'south never an result in practical use unless you somehow shoot from a position that would flex the forearm, pushing it into the barrel hard enough to move it...like leaning it against a tree sideways...

All the time and money spent trying to "stiffen" these stocks is pretty much thrown away every bit a solution in search of a problem.

These stocks are "strong plenty" at the action once the screws are properly tightened. In reality that's the but place that needs to be stiff.

Even when using a bipod, you really have to stress the thing to get the stock to touch the barrel. Much ado nigh cipher in my opinion.
Agreed. Those stocks shoot just fine. Buying an aftermarket stock, or attempting to "Meliorate" them will non make enough difference in accurateness for 99% of shooters to ever notice.
Some of the well-nigh accurate rifles I've ever shot were in the inexpensive tupperware stocks. The Tikka'south, Steyr Prohunter and a Remington VTR I've shot all had inexpensive plastic stocks and were exceptionally accurate.

At present to be honest, nearly all of my rifles are in quality aftermarket stocks. I've never noticed any difference in accurateness subsequently irresolute, simply do so because I but similar them better. Most fit me better, look meliorate and are considerably lighter than the factory tupperware. Simply not any more than authentic.
- Contributing Member
LoonWulf Contributing Member
I would concur with those statements on factory stock, and honestly most stocks shoot just fine with no work. I dont own Any synthetic aftermarket stocks, never seen the point personally.
The flip side to the stiffness coin is if your stock has force per unit area points, as many stocks do, you lot can affect accuracy by property the stock/resting on different parts of the forearm. This Ive plant is also true with floated barrels but it isnt equally obvious. The only forearm Ive bothered to stiffen is the ane on my 700 SPS 7mm, and part of that is because I floated the barrel as soon as I got the rifle, and now ive re-pressure level bedded the tip. Thus id prefer the forearm exist as potent as possible.
The stock that came with my stevens model 200 was extremely flexible, and was warped to 1 side where it was actually contacting the barrel on one side at the end. Maybe this wouldn't have affected accurateness, but why not do something nigh it? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.