[30mag]

How do you put the studs you attach a strap to into a stock?
Particularly synthetic...
I suppose with wood, you just drill and screw?

[The Lone Haranguer]

I suppose with wood, you just drill and screw?
Yes.

[rcmodel]

Particularly synthetic...It depends on the stock, and the way it was made.

Some have a place molded in for stud attachment. You may have to drill out the holes.
Others are hollow and you have to take off the butt pad and build up a renforced place with glass cloth & epoxy.

Generally, the forearm is thick enough to just use the same stud & nut inside the barrel channel as used in a wood stock.

rc

[tractorshaft]

I normally scoop some of the expanded foam out of the hollow and roughly form a piece of hardwood to fit the profile of the stock where you will drill for the stud. You will use Epoxy resin or bedding compound to attach it.

I make it an inch or two larger on each side of the "target" if you will so the exact location is not critical. Also a little larger piece of wood or dowel will help prevent it from chipping out of the stock , not if, but when it gets banged.

While I'm there, I also like to epoxy two, 2-3" pieces of 1.5" hardwood dowel into the stock approximately where the recoil pad will be screwed in. A lot of custom synthetic makers kind of expect you to do this anyways. Its part of the 10 percent that is not inletted, ha ha ha!

Enjoy

Jerry

[30mag]

What?
I'm not putting a recoil pad on.
But thanks for the advice.