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Article #390Re: Fiberglass Stocks for Rem. 308
From: Jordan K. Hubbard
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1987 16:37
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1987 16:37
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Article: 3:14 In <2666@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> hplabs!hplb29a!clarke (Marc Clarke) wrote: > I took >the gun in to my favorite gunsmith and asked that the gun be fiberglass >bedded and the barrel free floated. I verified that the barrel was >indeed free floating before I left the shop. The action was bedded >well, with no bubbles or cracks visible in the fiberglass. The stock >remained free floating for about a week, and then I found that the stock >was firmly contacting the barrel.... >I have somehow gotten the impression that wood stocks are perhaps not >terribly stable, even when completely sealed with polyurethane. Much depends on the quality of the stock, and how well cured the wood is. I've never had such a problem on, for example, my Walther GX-1, despite transporting it in an unheated trailer in New England winters (and then straight into the range), and shooting in Phoenix coming from a much moister climate. I new stock of some sort might well be an answer. I've seen a few fiberglass stocks, and expected that they'd be much more popular by now than they are (so I wonder about them?). -- Alan M. Marcum Sun Microsystems, Technical Consulting marcum@nescorna.Sun.COM Mountain View, California
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!jkh From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns Subject: Re: Fiberglass Stocks for Rem. 308 Message-ID: <2729@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 11:37:56 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2729 Posted: Mon Mar 9 11:37:56 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Mar-87 21:47:26 EST Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 26 Approved: jkh@ucbjade Author: marcum@Sun.COM (Alan M. Marcum)