Weighing down a stock.

[henry1]

Well guys, I forgot to tell you but about 2 weeks ago i headed up to Medicine Bow Wy. to shoot some pdogs and before i left i loaded up 450 rds and added some weight to the stock. I took some old lead shot laying around from my days of competative shotgun shooting/ then reloading and dumped in as much as the stock could hold. WOW! did it ever add some weight! it was not fun to tote around the dog town but I know for a fact that I was much more stable. It was almoast as if i was shooting off of a bench! needless to say that about 400 dogs went flying in the air and a not so lucky jackrabbit! I was sure glad that i decided to fillerup. have any of you out ther ever done such a thing? just curious. I would love to find a way to give the front of the rifle some weight but havnt come up with many conveinient and nonstressing (on the lug) ways. Ok, nough rambling. leme haveit. Hank.

[stimpylu32]

Henry1

Adding weight to the butt stock has been a trick for the heavy hitters like the 45/70 and 450 Marlin for quite awhile to cut down on recoil , there is no real good way to add weight to the forarm though , other than a Choate varmint forarm & bi-pod , any more and you chance breaking off the lug . 

stimpy

[PHATINJUN]

That is what I had planned on doing next yr even while shooting of a bench not so much worried about accuracy as the guns shot great but to keep some of the shock off the scope so that I can see them dogs explode when bullet hits them. Kurt

[henry1]

lol! thats exactly my thought too! I did however come up with an okay working system for the forend. I had my mom make me a sand bag, then split the diference(as it wasnt filled up all the way) over the barrel. it seemed to work real good on the bipod. but i would much rather be sitting on a bench but that didnt happen much and i wasnt disapointed! Any body know if the BC has a hollow stock? I doubt it but it makes me think.

[ironglow]

   I used to have an older (80s) H&R tracker 12 ga slug gun (wooden stock)..as I got older, it seemed to kick harder..LOL

 So, I took the butt plate off...then went out to my blacksmith shop and cut a piece of roundstock that would just fit nicely in the stock and rounded the edges on the ends.

  I made the steel bar about 1/4" short of filling the space..then packed the bar stock in ..preceded by and followed by..some durable sponge material.

  Worked finr for a few years..then the powers to be in state govt. finally saw clear to allow rifles in my region of the state..so  i gave the slug gun to my grandson and I use rifles exclusively on big game...all game for that matter..

[Ranger J]

I took off the but-plate of my Handi and found that the round balls for my Brown Bess musket fit perfectly when patched with my regular patching material.  I think it took eight of them to fill the hole.  I like the idea of filling the copper tubing with lead and I had one cut to length but have never bothered to fill it with lead and take the lead balls out and replace them with the tube.  Whatever, adding weight to the stock will definitely take some of the sting out of shooting heavy loads in the Handi.  As I either use mine in a tree stand or at the range I don’t find the extra weight a bother.
RJ

[PartsMan]

I used steel BBs in mine once.
Just over a pound full.
Lead seemed a bit much.

PS what do you guys use in synthetics.

[ironglow]

    Partsman;

   For the synthetics...often a mix of BBs and that clear, rubbery calking material is put directly in the stock. May be best if the mix is put in a plastic bag and form-fitted to the cavity..perhaps it would be easier to remove if necessary..

[PartsMan]

    Partsman;

   For the synthetics...often a mix of BBs and that clear, rubbery calking material is put directly in the stock. May be best if the mix is put in a plastic bag and form-fitted to the cavity..perhaps it would be easier to remove if necessary..

Silicone?

[ironglow]

  Right ;

   You have it Parts man..the term escaped me for a moment while I was posting..

[Rustyinfla]

 I have a friend of mine who built a small blast furnace for melting alum. at home. I was thinking of sand casting an alum. forearm. That would be a little bit heavier and the weight would be on the front end instead of the back end making for better balance IMHO. I have used lead shot in my son's 12 ga. when I first gave it to him. That was when he was about 9. He wanted the same kind of gun dad had don't you know. well by the time he was 11 he had me take out the shot and just went with a slip on recoil pad. We don't shoot much high brass stuff.
   Would you believe that he's never missed with that shotgun? Tree rats, possums, foxes, have all fallen to the mighty Topper.

      Rusty <><

[quickdtoo]

Rusty, not a good idea, there's a warning in the FAQs about weighting the forend, NFG ripped the forend stud off his barrel doing that, it's just spot welded on.

Tim

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