Tips, please, for installing sling swivels.

[Eleven Mike]

I have a rifle in a Butler Creek synthetic stock, and would like to mount a sling swivel in front of the magazine for a Ching Sling. As the other swivels are the QD type, I'll be using another of those.

Under the barrel, the stock has plenty of flat, uncluttered surface, with about 5/8" clearance. I plan on using a machine screw type of swivel, with a washer and some form of locking nut on the inside.

Have any of you installed an extra swivel on a stock like this? What has worked for you?

 

[Eleven Mike]

Here's the stock.

 

[taliv]

if you're just using it for very light duty, that might work. if you plan to put much pressure on it, i think the right thing to do is put some sort of T thing in there. not sure where you get them or what they're called, but the idea is that the insert that is threaded doesn't transfer all the stress to the wood around it, but passes completely through the stock and is held in place by a big bar on the other side (next to the barrel, but not touching it of course)

that make sense?

 

[Arkie]

You could use a t-nut or a Propell Nut to hold the swivel onto the stock. I think it is the about the same idea that Taliv gave you.

Here is some photos of what they look like. You can pick them up a Lowes or Home Depot in the parts deptment.

Click Here.

 

[taliv]

yep, that's what i was talking about... thanks

 

[Eleven Mike]

Thanks for the input.

I want to make sure you understand I'm talking about a synthetic stock, not wood.

 

[Arkie]

On the T-Nuts all you would have to do is break off the tacks that go into the wood and make sure that you drill the hold big enough for the shaft to go into the stock.

Or you can use the Propell Nuts. They are smooth.

 

[45crittergitter]

I have used wood screw type mounts on such things, assuming your stock is thick enough (may want to position the screw at a thick place). I bet that plastic is tougher than wood anyway.