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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: WadePatton on September 01, 2014, 07:49:18 AM
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I poked one into my stock today.
For some reason I never liked the hole in the middle of a drilled one, so i made my hole without. Of course I'll keep it filled with grease, but I like it much without the pilot/center hole.
I've been refining the architecture of my TN elk rifle. Raising the rear of the lock panels, raising/refining the cheekpiece, adding a touch of hollow to the comb, general thinning of wrist and butt. And poking a hole--a flat bottomed hole.
After finishing (again) I'll beeswax the hole before adding grease (tallow).
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Wade, funny thing in the tenn research world I've been looking at....SMR for a time period had these, the a little further north into KY, the Mtn rifles didn't......maybe a fad?
Interesting.......
Marc n tomtom
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Hole or elongated metal box is practically every TN rifle i study, and so shall mine.
Smokinbuck is an authority on grease hole technique. Might ask him for ideas. :D
technique? poke hole, don't go thru, ...what else is there? Did he booboo one? I'm done with that hole, the 40 gets a "banana box", not sure on the 30 yet.
off to the shop to make shavings...