Force it into any cracks you can’t open up enough to reach into. What kind of wood is used for gun stocks?Ĭoat both pieces or, if the stock is not completely broken, pry the split open being careful not to make it bigger.How many coats of Tru Oil should I apply?.What are the techniques required for repairing cracks?.Can you use wood filler on a gun stock?.The threaded rod will act just like the crossbolts on many military rifles, spreading the load across the stock and holding it together, stopping it from cracking. The fiberglass I suggested previously isn't needed. Be sure to use the mold release on both the block and the recoil block bolt. Then you can add a little bit of acraglass to bed in the recoil block, holding the block in place with its bolt, making sure the rest of the rifle sets in OK. When dry file the acraglass out to the original inletting contours. Fill the chisled out area with acraglas, cementing the pieces of bolts in place. Make sure they're set deep enough to stay below the inner surface of the inletting when you put in the rods. Assuming there's room I'd try to put 2 at the rear, one above and one below the hole for the recoil block bolt that runs to the butt. Make them big enough for 3/6 threaded steel rod stock or pieces cut from bolts and as wide as you can while still being able to put the pieces of the bolts in from the inletting. You can chisel or dremel out channels, just behind and in front of the inletting, being careful to keep them from not breaking through the wood surface. You could put in crossbolts, but since you have a nice looking wood stock I'd try to keep the reinforcements inside. File the inletting to open it up if needed. Just filling the cracks wont work as the wood isn't strong enough across the grain to stop it and more will open up.įirst make sure the action fits well, doesn't have to be forced in to the stock at all with the cracks held closed. You need a reinforcement to hold the stock together both behind the recoil block and in front of the inlet to stop further cracking. My guess is that your cracking problem started with either an excessively tight action inletting or shrinkage of the wood from age, the Deerslayer model being about 40 years old, or both. The rifle has to be removed from the bedded stock before its hardened too much, a good reason to use Acraglas as it stays a bit elastic for 6 or 7 hours. Be sure to fill any potential lock-in areas on the rifle with modeling clay or putty. Boat supply stores usually have release agent and other epoxy and glass materials. A good layer of car wax will work althought the Brownells release agent is excellent. Normal roughness in the area usually does the job.Īnd don't forget the release agent on the carbine. Make sure you have the bedding area keyed into the side of the carbine stock a bit so it wont come out or shoot loose. This will distribute the loads across the stock and prevent the cracks from opening up.
Brownells sells a fiberglass floc for mixing with Acraglas but pieces of any fiberglass cloth will work fine.
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If I were you I'd cut out some of the cracked wood behind the recoil block, 1/8 to 1/4 inch would be fine, and fill with bedding epoxy with fiberglas strands across it, NOT JB WELD or straight unreinforced Acraglas. In my experience unreinforced cracks always result in more stock cracking.
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