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#1 · (Edited)
I currently have three stocks the Springfield plastic stock, USGI birch and a USGI fiberglass.

The problem I have is the with the wood stock. After refinishing it I tried to sight it in and ran out of adjustment. It shoots way over to the left. I took some pictures of the action in the stocks (trigger group locked in) with out the front band in place. The wood stock is canted to the left. My question is there a way to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance DI5
USGI Fiberglass

Springfield

USGI wood


I didn't have any trouble with the original stock and I haven't shot the fiberglass yet. So I don't believe the receiver, mount or scope is the problem.

Oh and excuse the rust I already fixed it GI1
 
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#6 ·
Thanks for the replies especially from Kevlar but I'm not going through that process to fix a stock that costs $50 dollars but thanks anyways. I doubt I will buy a wood stock ever again, perhaps the seller didn't know. Nevertheless the stock is warped and I found this out last fall after trying to sight it in. Other then what Kevlar posted is there any other solution to fix this stock?
 
#9 ·
Boil water and soak the warped end of the stock in it for ten minutes. Take it out, set a board you are coffident is true on each side, secure them tightly with clamps and let the stock dry completely. Re-oil the stock. It's quick and dirty, but should work. That's the process we used to add the kick tails to home made skateboards when I was a kid. We were adding curve, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Cheap and easy. You could even put the action in the stock while its in the form to check your work.

My dad chrrently doses this with two metal sheets and boards when drying out wood to use when building a uke.
 
#12 ·
That's a good idea I was thinking of making an quick jig to hold it. It's hard to tell where its warped though. If I hold it up to the other stocks I really can't see any noticeable differences. But at any rate, I'll have some time in a couple weeks to mess with it, thanks.
 
#13 ·
I had a chance yesterday to shoot it with the USGI fiberglass stock I got from Fred's and it shot just fine. I got it zeroed fairly quickly but I was also trying to get a bolt gun zeroed as well. I was not able to spend any real time to see how it grouped with that stock. But I got both of them zeroed so it was actually a pretty good day.

By that way The wood stock was way left and the scope has 80MOA of windage and it was still 2 feet away. So something is really screwed up on that stock.
 
#14 · (Edited)
If I understand you correctly, I can move the barrel by hand in relation to the stock, as it's pictured. The front band off and the trigger group locked in but I can do that with all the stocks. The wood will come back and sit crooked even if I move it by hand.

The wood stock seems like it "locks up" tight but I can check it later. I have to paint that fiberglass anyways. I can't take that fugly brown color.
 
#20 ·
I have seen the cast, toe out and drop of a shotgun stock corrected and fitted via bending. I have seen it done with heat guns and with hot mineral oil...... amazing how a piece of wood becomes rubber under those conditions.
It can be straightened -- when you do, take it a little beyond where you want it as it will spring back a little - may take some trial-n-error. Or, just use that stock for scrap and fix-it pieces and get another wood stock.
I have fiberglass/kevlar stocks and I have wood..... maybe I am just lucky down here in the heat and humidly of an area that averages 60" of rain per year usually in 9 or ten months and then 2 to 3 months of very hot & dry. ... My wood stocks are well sealed and I have had no problems with them.
 
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