Synthetic stock noisy.......how to quiet it down

[Nester]

Synthetic stock is fairly noisy when making my way through bush and scrub.


I'm quite as a housecat wearing pillow slippers making my way through the woods but it's starting to irk me when a branch rubs against the stock of my synthetic stock with a hollow sounding "ssssssshhhhhhhhhwww" or I bump it against the tree stand safety bar "wwwwoooooooooommmm"



Thinking about putting some of that self cling camo tape on it that is reusable. Any other ideas and no I don't want to flip it over to a wooden stock as I like my synthetic and am fairly hard on it and prefer it versatility.




Who in Canada sells that self cling camo tape by the way?

 

[pharaoh2]

Fill the stock with expanding foam.

 

[blargon]

Fill the stock with expanding foam.

Or stuff it with plastic shopping bags...

 

[jmax857]

try filling it with insulation, anything to "deaden" the noise.

 

[zimbu]

Roxull Safe 'n' Sound has excellent sound deadening properties. Available at Home Depot.
Next best would be fiberlglass insulation.
I don't think spray foam will do much, but in case you decide to go that route, use the NON-expanding stuff.

 

[Longwalker]

I ditched my fiberglass stocks because of noise, and went to laminated wood. Foam didn't help deaden sound much in the hollow plastic stocks.

 

[pharaoh2]

Who in Canada sells that self cling camo tape by the way?

I missed this part. WSS here in Lethbridge had a few rolls of the Browning latex tape in a couple different patterns. But I think it was around $40 a roll.

 

[notsorichguy]

Expanding foam made a huge differance in my Remington SPS stocks, instead of a hollow loud vibrating sound.... it just goes 'thunk'.

I also added weight to mine (in the form of bullets pushed into the foam once it was dried/cured) that made a big differance with felt recoil. I found as little as 1000gr of bullets (10-100gr bullets) will make a differance with felt recoil.

I used minimal expanding (window & door) foam for my butt stocks and Acra-glass for my fore stocks ( I added weight there as well). The foam expands but if you only fill it 2/3's full, its easy to cut off the excess and re-install your recoil pad/butt plate.

Cheers!

 

[GRiNGo]

For the tape that only sticks to itself, you can buy hockey grip tape that does that. I use white stuff for hunting 'yots in the winter. You can buy lots of colours for about 4-6 bucks a role.

 

[homer76]

I believe you are referring to Camo Form made by McNett (mcnett.com). I have checked their list of Canadian distributors and none of them seem to carry that specific product. There are a number of US online distributors and I think most of them would ship up here since it's not a controlled item.