Shotgun Stock Bolt Cheater- Tool

[Badger Arms]

After fretting with it for years, I finally decided to solve the problem of slotted shotgun stock screws and the screwdriver slipping out. I bought a long screwdriver years ago from a pawn shop. It has a square shank to attach vice-grips if necessary for leverage. This was my tool. To improve it, I found a piece of pipe that fit around the head like a sleeve just beyond the blade. This surrounds the screw and keeps the blade from sliding out of the shop. Also makes re-installing the bolt a breeze. All I do is insert the bolt attached to the screwdriver while the stock is still off. Once in, I keep the screwdriver there and line it up with the receiver threads and I'm done. In True Alaska fashion, the pipe gets held on with Duct tape. I have to wrap the shank above the blade a few times so that the pipe is centered. Make sure the ID of the pipe is large enough for the screwdriver and the heads of the screws.

 

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Excellent Tip! Thanks for sharing.

I lost my long screwdriver at one point, Sears Roebuck has another...thinned the wallet, but a great investment. Badger I used a pc of copper tubing in similar fashion. Another fella uses a pc of PVC ( slacker ).

Then one day I grabbed the screw driver , and some idiot in design used a bolt head for the stock bolt. Yep I tried, screwdriver will not work on a bolt,don't care how determined one is. [ Damn that is a bolt duh]

So...while you guys are out getting a long screwdriver, a pc of pipe...snag some l-o-n-g socket extensions, another pc of pipe to work with sockets, granted they "line up" better, but the pipe keeps straight and aligned.

Again , a great tip!

 

[JJohnston015]

Another tip: once I've determined the size of the required socket, I write it on the end of the stock, next to the hole.

 

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DJJ...Good One !

It ain't cheatin' if it works - its ingenuity

 

[Dave McCracken]

Decades ago, I bought a long square shank screwdriver and ground it to fit the bolts in 870s. It works, too. A little modeling clay or Playdo will keeep things together, although duct tape has a certain cachet to us rednecks...

 

[Denny Hansen]

I'm gonna have to git me some of that thar duck tape. Where I grew up everything was done with a bigger hammer and bailin' wire.

Denny

 

[Badger Arms]

Then one day I grabbed the screw driver , and some idiot in design used a bolt head for the stock bolt. Yep I tried, screwdriver will not work on a bolt,don't care how determined one is.

Once you get the bolt out... however you get it out... place it in a vice and take a hack-saw to the head. You'll have a slotted head in no time! I can't remember where I saw this... probably a Winchester 1300 I got recently. Haven't yet cut the slot, but it's going to happen! Make sure you don't cut too deep and dress the slot so it doesn't look THAT cheesy. Better yet, take the bolt to your local hardware store and getcha one of them thar factory slotted bolts. May want to get Cadmium or Chrome plating while you're at it. SPLURGE!

 

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Badger

Oh I've cut the slits in the bolt heads, ...but ...but...I needed to "qualify" going to Sears and getting more socket extensions,sockets, and whatever else I dragged home that day. Hey, women gonna stereotype guys buying tools, well by golly gonna do my part.

Denny had bailin' wire...gee you musta been rich!

I used coat hangers,...did ya know... coat hangers steel cans and pliers ... yes one can fix an exhaust pipe - both the hole in it and as replacement for support hanger.

You think "maybe" this is why women shake their heads at us guys?

A woman can fix more stuff in less time with a butter knife than a man with a Craftman Tool chest full of stuff. Heck we are still digging through the assorted screwdriver sets...she is finished and has supper ready, and the tea is ready.

Women hit their targets, they do the simple stuff, haven't read the magazines/internet. " I just focused on target, front sight and squeezed trigger, I hit the target, It ain't no big deal".