I'm wanting to take a single shot Cricket 22LR and make it into a light weight backpacking rifle. I've seen commercially available kits that will remove the stock with a finger screw which allows the rifle to pack down into a tiny package. I've seen some other people on the net who have built something similar which requires takedown to package the rifle into the smaller package.
I was playing around with my own design and I've drawn up something that would use a folding stock design instead.
"On a folding stock weapon you measure with the stock extended, provided the stock is not readily detachable, and the weapon is meant to be fired from the shoulder. "
Folded my rifle would be less than 26", closer to 23". I'm worried about the second part of the "stock is not readily detachable". I was thinking about using a ball detent to hold the stock in the closed position which would make it easy to open and close. Would that be considered "readily detachable"?
I was playing around with my own design and I've drawn up something that would use a folding stock design instead.
"On a folding stock weapon you measure with the stock extended, provided the stock is not readily detachable, and the weapon is meant to be fired from the shoulder. "
Folded my rifle would be less than 26", closer to 23". I'm worried about the second part of the "stock is not readily detachable". I was thinking about using a ball detent to hold the stock in the closed position which would make it easy to open and close. Would that be considered "readily detachable"?