How to fix bipop on Lelya 2.0

There is/was at least one on the forum. He sent me a nice little summary in a PM but I seem to have deleted it. Basically a longer stock screw, long enough to put through the weaver rail and hold it to the stock while also holding the rifle in the stock. No drilling. Doesn't seem like the strongest way to hold a bipod in place (to much potential movement/leverage on the threads in the front barrel band). But, other than milling the stock , I couldn't think of much else. 

I went a little simpler route and simply bolted through the weaver rail, with a couple jam nuts on the back, and left enough bolt to stick out the back about an inch. Covered that bolt with a tube that fit into the access hole for the stock screw then filled it (the tube attached to the weaver rail, not the stock) with epoxy and let it dry then wrapped it in grip tape until it was just barely a snug slip in fit to the hole in the stock for the stock bolt. This left the original stock bolt untouched. Certainly nothing you could carry around attached to the rifle but it worked fine shooting from my bench and was basically something that would just drop out when I picked the piffle up. Mine is gone.... no pics sorry. Careful not to split the stock!!



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so you use plastic pipe to mount I am confused? and turn it to size to slip in hole so it is like a pin rather then a hard mount?

so you use plastic pipe to mount I am confused?

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Don't want to speak for jwilson but his was the example I started with too.. His approach uses the new bolt as the stock bolt to secure the stock too, replacing the 'old' stock bolt. The pipe is a spacer.

What I did is close, (and basically what you describe) but the bolt was shorter and I secured it first to the weaver rail then epoxied the pvc pipe onto the bolt. Then taped it out to be a slightly snug slip fit to the hole without bolting it to the action.

His stays in place, mine drops out.....

The PVC spacer is merely a stand-off. The UTG rail has mLock alignment feet that also center it in the PVC spacer. The longer screw goes through the rail, through the spacer, through the stock bushing and mounts to the OE threaded hole in the chassis. The 1/2 inch pvc is a snug but slip fit in the hole in the stock. No drilling and no marring of the stock. All the clamp pressure holding the stock to the chassis is still through the OE aluminum stock bushing. It works well.

Joe