7mmstalker
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There is an new unfired 1895G in my hands. As is the case with many factory made guns, the fit is less than perfect. The upper and lower tangs are pretty tight, no visible gap, stock slides onto them smoothly.
My concern is at the front of the wood, where the small flats at the rear body of the receiver meet the small flat surfaces on the sides of the grip area. No contact at all.
This seems like a good way to crack the stock, as all of the recoil force would bear on the rounded surfaces of the rear of the tangs and the small vertical screw connecting them.
Placing a bit of bedding or epoxy in the gap in th front would be pretty simple. I am thinking about removing tiny a bit of material at the rear tangs and the hole for the screw to eliminate all recoil bearing on those rounded surfaces.
Basically this rifle seems to need the receiver to stock connection re-engineered.
Poor workmanship is, unfortunately, getting hard to avoid. I am happy with the rest of the fit and finish on ths rifle, so a bit of fine tuning isn't a big deal.
I do need some feedback from some of the more experienced 'smiths on this board, hoping to do the job once, the right way.
My concern is at the front of the wood, where the small flats at the rear body of the receiver meet the small flat surfaces on the sides of the grip area. No contact at all.
This seems like a good way to crack the stock, as all of the recoil force would bear on the rounded surfaces of the rear of the tangs and the small vertical screw connecting them.
Placing a bit of bedding or epoxy in the gap in th front would be pretty simple. I am thinking about removing tiny a bit of material at the rear tangs and the hole for the screw to eliminate all recoil bearing on those rounded surfaces.
Basically this rifle seems to need the receiver to stock connection re-engineered.
Poor workmanship is, unfortunately, getting hard to avoid. I am happy with the rest of the fit and finish on ths rifle, so a bit of fine tuning isn't a big deal.
I do need some feedback from some of the more experienced 'smiths on this board, hoping to do the job once, the right way.