Stock dent repair?

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Gary O

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I was foolish enough to loan my Cooper to one of my daughter's friends for about an hours worth of ground sqirrell hunting. When I got it back my daughter said he was useing steel fence posts for his shooting rest before she could stop him. The result was about 2 square inches of shallow dents and scratches up around the front swivel stud. Should I send the stock back to Cooper for repairs or what?
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Probably your best bet.
A Cooper is too nice to screw around with it trying to do a patch job.

Send the bill to the boyfriend and let him take a rest on that!

rc
 
What was the boyfriend thinking? Send him the repair bill. Maybe in the future he'll remember to think first.
 
why on earth would you lend some thing like that to one of your kids friends..........sorry i don't mean to sound like a d@^k but.... i really don't think that was a wise decision
 
I don't remember describing my daughter or her friend as kids. They are both grown adults. Please skip the preaching and offer some real council about the repairs. That is what I requested. Oh hell; I should know by now that was asking too much from some folks...
 
Without know how deep the dents are, you can 'sweat' them out by placing a folded wet cloth over each ding or dent and applying heat with a soldering iron. The moisture causes the wood to expand again. Some light sanding and refinishing will probably be needed, but it will cost a lot less than what Cooper might charge.

mbogo
 
^^^^ Won't work thru the finish. He would have to prick a lot of holes in the dent area to steam them out.
 
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Generally, whether a finish is present or not, Dents would be pin pricked ( even making fairly deep pin holes, depending on how deep the dent is ) then, with a Q-Tip, bring Water, Distilled Water ideally, to the dent, and saturate the afflicted area, saturating most where the dent is deepest, least, in it's shallow graduations...

It really does not take very much saturation, much Water, to arrive at a proper amount being absorbed.

After a couple hours of this having been repeated lightly a few times, a regular Ironing Board 'Iron', set to a 'Cotton' Temperature, can be brought to bear on the spot, 'rolling' the Iron over it only breifly, even using a sheet of white thin Paper between Iron and Wood...be pretty brief with the Iron, see how things are.

The moisture in the dent will boil and go 'Pssst!' and re-inflate the dent.

Over done, where the dent had been, too much Water, too long a time under the Iron, and one can even acheive a proud area this way...so, do not over do.

Do it lightly, if it needs to be done again, do it again, rather than accidently over doing it.

May or may not cause the finish to blanch white or milky, but, any old time Finish Man could apply some magic stuff and bring that back alright.
 
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