******PLEASE PROCEED ON DOING THIS @ YOUR OWN RISK******
I've read about it & I've seen them in person. It's really sad & pitiful see...
If you ever own a beautiful RAW/Theoben stock, then you know what I mean when you try to unscrew the stock bolt and try to slowly slide the wooden stock off of your RAW/Theoben action.
*****STOP!!!!!!*****DON'T DO IT!!!!!...
PLEASE DON'T yank that beautiful wooden stock off the action or your gonna crack the "ears" (wood stock area near the neck of the bottle) off your emaculate stock! Then your gonna cry me a river & look all sad & grumpy all week b/c you have 2 cracks on your expensive rifle stock.
Well, every1 that owns a RAW/Theoben rifle knows to UNSCREW the steel/carbon fiber bottle FIRST all the way off (which creates a loud "POP") then unscrew the allen bolt from the stock, & then you can carefully slide that beautiful stock away from your action. I think that's the proper procedure to "remove the stock" w/o cracking the "ears" off your stock.
But wait...why don't you take a dremel tool & carefully sand down the "ears" so you don't have to unscrew that dang bottle that's in the way? (Sorry, I don't have any before sanding pictures...just after the sanding pictures)...
https://youtu.be/APnfak3KMg8
Makes SENSE correct? I've disassembled my RAW/Theoben rifles many times for cleaning/tunes/shipping & I was tired of unscrewing my bottles every time so I did the procedure myself on 3 stocks. Just take your time, be careful and your good to go. I probably sanded about 4-5mm off both insides of the ears, smooth sanded the area out to make her look original as possible, & test fitted her to make sure the action can easily slide out of the stock.
After slowly/carefully sanding w/ the dremel, just apply a clearcoat finish and your all set. No more unscrewing your bottle, no more cracked "ears," no more crying, no more depression & sadness.
Maybe RAW/AIRFORCE can read this post and start machining their wooden stocks so the "ears" WON'T crack off?
It would be awesome if they would listen...
Just a thought that might help...
