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| < 16ga. General Discussion ~ Get out the wood rasp... |
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Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:18 pm
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I did so with my Uggie a wile ago, shaving about 3/16" off the top of the comb because I was seeing a bit too much rib for my tastes (I've noticed many of the new guns, Aya's, Merkels, and so on, seem to have only about 2 1/4" drop at heel, which seems high to me).
I also added a leather pad (I had to cut off the checkered butt to do so), which gave me about 1" more length of pull. The result? It feels perfect now. I finally had time to take it to the range last night, and I not only added 2 birds to my average on the skeet range, but the birds I was hitting were going up in smoke, when I was getting chips before. Dead on, and that's a great feeling.
My advice? Don't be afraid of the wood rasp.  |
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Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:58 pm
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| Bob Villa (from This Old House) had the saying of "measure twice, cut once". Great to hear that you're hitting the target with your modifications. I've been told that a ten pound change in our body weight can affect the stock fit from 1/16-1/8". For the BB members that have spent more time on the recliner than the threadmill, that can make a drastic change to the guns that had originally fit us a few years before... |
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:16 pm
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I gave up on home alterations . . .
measure once, cut three times, and it's still too short!
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:03 pm
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I believe the proper quote is "measure twice, cuss once"...  |
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:31 pm
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Sounds like a few of you guys might want to borrow my board stretcher 
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Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:04 pm
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| Bob Villa (from This Old House) had the saying of "measure twice, cut once
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He may have used it, but it's been around a lot longer than he was. And I guarantee ya, if it's a 20K glulam, you measure more than twice. |
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Barrel set 1- (choke) .000 , .007 , chamber 70mm
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Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:48 pm
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| Upland Carpenter wrote: |
Sounds like a few of you guys might want to borrow my board stretcher
Marcus
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Sounds like some of them should let someone else do the sawing and shaving. |
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