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H-S Precision Stock HELP!
jbw1776
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Fellow dropped of this Magnum Research Mountain Eagle Rifle .300 win. mag. today and wants me to put a Limbsaver recoil pad on it. He needs the gun by next weekend, which isn't a problem, except I can't figure out how to remove the original butt pad. The stock is a H-S Precision synth. stock and I don't see any slits where it was screwed on. Is it glued on?? If it is glued on, how the heck do you remove it? Any and all help greatly appreciated. Thanks
Ben
Ben
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Call HS and ask them. I don't have the phone number handy, but I'll look around and see if I can find a catalog of theirs that I know is laying around here somewhere. Still, I'd expect that a online search should get you to their websight. Yep, they are at www.hsprecision.com and (605)341-3006
Thanks ern98, I did call them after I posted the first post. I called right as they were closing so I don't know if I talked to the most knowlegable person there about this problem. Anyways, the lady said to score between the pad and the stock, then put the stock in the freezer for 30min. Then take a plastic putty knife and work the pad off. What a load of crud. Like I said, I'm not sure the right person answered the phone.
Here is what I've come up with. This is a $2500 rifle, the stock cost $300, the guy needs it in a few days. This is just not enough time to do a good enough job on something that I'm not, or anyone else I've talked to, 100% sure about how to go about doing it in the first place.
The problems are these:
Whatever material the H-S stock is made out of it also has a sprayed on coat of baked on polyurethane, which will chip if you get rough with it, especially on the sharp edges. The pad is glued on using an epoxy glue. Anything I use to make the epoxy let go I run a chance of damaging the urethane finish. Considering, I'm looking to only make $20-30, this really isn't the rifle I want to have to replace any parts on. The owner agreed (we both thought it was screwed on). We decided we will attempt the project again when there is ample time to do so, and maybe by then I will have come up with a sutable way of removing the pad without damaging the stock.
I pride myself on my stock work and not "bubba'ing up" a gun. Sometimes it's best to just pass on a job rather than turn out inferior work.[;)] Pawn shops are full of guns where someone didn't know their limitations or know when to quit....I refuse to add to those numbers.[:)]
Ben
they are glued/epoxied on. You can cut them off carefully or try heating the base of the pad and working a razor blade little by little.
That was actually what I was considering trying when there is more time. However, in just scoring between the pad and the stock (like H_S said) I found that the baked on finish was extremely brittle and had a tendency to "flake". I really have no idea why the lady suggested putting the stock in the freezer, to me if freezing made the glue let go, then there were gonna be a lot of folks hunting way up north with missing butt pads.
Thanks JustC, That will be the route I go when I try it again.
Ben