Over the past few months I made a stock for my HW50s.
The gun has a barrel sleeve from TBT tunes and a butt hook from Bryan Samson. It's a .177 and does about 730fps with the JSB 7.87. It has a Macarri kit in it, the Hornet XLT kit, with his Hornet seal as well. I really enjoy shooting this one, as it doesn't have the wandering poi or scope slipping problems that many others I tried had. Real mellow shot cycle and not very hold sensitive.
The goal was to make a better fitting stock for field target, as me and a couple of the guys in our club will shoot springers at a couple of the matches every year. I also didn't want my first attempt at making a stock to be with a fancy blank, or even laminate. So, this is mostly a practice piece, but it turned out good enough to shoot with it some to see what improvements can be made before a more permanent option is undertaken.
It's not perfect but it was most certainly a learning experience.
Modeled somewhat after a FWB 300s and a Air Arms EV2 stock.
The process:
(last pic is a rubber band gun made from the profile of the stock when I thinned it down to the desired thickness. Two outlines of the stock, one from each side, glued together and rattlecanned black. My 6 year old son saw the cut offs and thought that'd make a cool thing to play with. I upped the fun factor by making it a rubber band gun, two shots. He's been whacking flys with it pretty serious).
The gun has a barrel sleeve from TBT tunes and a butt hook from Bryan Samson. It's a .177 and does about 730fps with the JSB 7.87. It has a Macarri kit in it, the Hornet XLT kit, with his Hornet seal as well. I really enjoy shooting this one, as it doesn't have the wandering poi or scope slipping problems that many others I tried had. Real mellow shot cycle and not very hold sensitive.
The goal was to make a better fitting stock for field target, as me and a couple of the guys in our club will shoot springers at a couple of the matches every year. I also didn't want my first attempt at making a stock to be with a fancy blank, or even laminate. So, this is mostly a practice piece, but it turned out good enough to shoot with it some to see what improvements can be made before a more permanent option is undertaken.
It's not perfect but it was most certainly a learning experience.
Modeled somewhat after a FWB 300s and a Air Arms EV2 stock.
The process:
(last pic is a rubber band gun made from the profile of the stock when I thinned it down to the desired thickness. Two outlines of the stock, one from each side, glued together and rattlecanned black. My 6 year old son saw the cut offs and thought that'd make a cool thing to play with. I upped the fun factor by making it a rubber band gun, two shots. He's been whacking flys with it pretty serious).
