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COLUMNS DECEMBER 2009
     
     
RIFLEMAN
Dave Anderson

 
Arresting Recoil
Don't Break The Stock
 
             
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  The HySkore Dangerous Game machine rest uses a lower assembly which is attached to the bench. Here the assembly is attached to a wooden base secured to the bench with C-clamps. The upper carriage can move back and forth under recoil. The rifle is a Weatherby Mark V .340 Wby Mag with 2-7X Pentax scope.  
                     
 

If rumors are to be believed (and in this high-speed communication era rumors spread with breathtaking speed), it appears wooden stocks are no longer strong enough to handle the recoil of even moderately powerful cartridges. If a new, powerful cartridge appears, stories about cracked or broken wooden stocks are not far behind.

The most recent example was the .375 Ruger cartridge in the wood-stocked African version of the Ruger 77 rifle. Rumors began circulating about how the stocks would crack in the tang area after just a few shots.
Learned exposés began appearing about how the Ruger African stock needed a second reinforcing cross bolt, glass bedding of the recoil lug recess and tang area, maybe even a second recoil lug attached to the barrel. Or maybe just abandon the idea of antiquated wooden stocks entirely and get the synthetic-stocked Alaskan version.

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