Crown pic rail help

Hi Eric,

I have added rails and slings to thin (wood) bottle-gun stocks and synthetic stocks by epoxying a T-nut in place. The T-nut installed from the inside is low profile and does a good job of spreading any strain over a fairly large area.

There are several different styles of T-nuts available, The "spurred" type is most common so I usually just flatten or remove the spurs on one of those; file the base to a rectangular shape (as required) and trim the threaded tube to the length to suit the thickness of the stock. 

Be sure that you will have enough mechanical clearance between the reservoir and the T-nut and keep in mind that you may have to adjust the length of the mounting screw(s) as well - nothing should touch the reservoir!

Hope this helps!

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I put this style in my Synthetic Crown.





The synthetic stocks are a strange material kind of crumbles when you drill it. These worked pretty well but I wish the threads were sharper. I think I put some nail polish on them. They have been holding great and I thought they looked a little cleaner than T-nuts.

I use a Bipod all the time on my Crown, 6 months and it’s been rock solid.

If I did it over I would use these. I think they would cut in a bit cleaner. Not as flush with the stock but you never see them once the pic rails on.

Here’s a few more pic’s. I did cut the front one down a little with a dremel before install so it would sit just about flush.

I installed a short rail on a Red Wolf. The front hole had to be in a very thin area of wood. I used a T nut, but had to trim the length, and also snipped about half the length from the teeth. It was tedious, but it worked fine. The rear hole had plenty of depth, so I just used a wood screw there. The T nut can be epoxied in place, but I usually do not. Once it's snugged up the teeth hold it fine, never moves.Unless you plan on being slung up under high tension for position shooting. wood screw attachment should work fine, providing you have sufficient depth. For bipod and general carrying sling use, I've never had wood screws come loose. 

Gonna out a pic rail on my crown just wondering what you guys use for a bipod and then lm wanting to have a sling also. They make pic rail sling mounts but would there be enough room on the pic rail for a bipod and sling with this short of a pic rail? Any suggestions or ideas on this?

srtmat said:

Here’s a few more pic’s. I did cut the front one down a little with a dremel before install so it would sit just about flush.

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You mangled the sheet out of the stock, what a mess