Anyone shorten a tikka Tupperware stock?

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The wife is 13"lop. With the limbsaver installed, lop comes to 14". Shouldering the rifle is not an issue, but eye relief is. Scope is as far back as possible (talley lightweight 1piece).
So...my thought is to shorten the stock. I'd like to keep a limbsaver as pad. The process I'm envisioning is as follows:
- remove butt plate insert.
- straight line with painters tape
- band saw
- fabricate wood piece for new butt plate insert
- spray foam inside butt
- epoxy wood insert in place
- grind to fit limbsaver
- anything else?

When I took the factory pad off, it looked as though the channels for the two screws ran the whole length of the inside of the butt, so hoping rescrewing should be no issue.

Thought I'd check with you guys to see if anyone has any tricks/tips.
Thanks!
 
I don't think it'll be much different than the Tupperware remmy or savage stocks, I've done several of those, I used a chopsaw and cut it square and put a wood filler in the hollow butt and screwed a new recoil pad and coloured it done. no problems should be the same with the tikka.
 
Huntin Don't use a bandsaw. You will never keep the but square. Use a chop saw. You have the rest. Maybe rough up the inside of the stock before you exopy the piece of wood in.
 
Use a mitre chop saw. Doable with a band saw if you have a jig. Assuming the stock is solid vs the foam filled variety. You'll have to re-do the screw holes anyway. Same issue though. Solid vs the foam filled.
The Limb saver for you or her? The scope rings can be changed to move the scope back more, but LOP is not about eye relief. She can't reach the trigger properly.
 
Limbsaver for her. I want it to be comfortable to shoot in order for her to become fully confident. I had considered a rail and different rings in order to move scope back... Might still try it. Scope is an early 90's Leupold VariX 3-9 compact. It is lightweight and I like that for two reasons:
- easy for her to carry on longer treks
- should double nicely as a pack gun for sheep country ;)
 
Changing the stock altogether an option? Boyd's is selling some pretty laminates for Tikka's at $99US. Tikka models assorted.
Those off set rings might work, but it's really not an eye relief thing. It's a rifle stock fitting her thing.
What you like doesn't matter. She has to like it. snicker.
 
huntin' said:
The wife is 13"lop. With the limbsaver installed, lop comes to 14". Shouldering the rifle is not an issue, but eye relief is. Scope is as far back as possible (talley lightweight 1piece).
So...my thought is to shorten the stock. I'd like to keep a limbsaver as pad. The process I'm envisioning is as follows:
- remove butt plate insert.
- straight line with painters tape
- band saw
- fabricate wood piece for new butt plate insert
- spray foam inside butt
- epoxy wood insert in place
- grind to fit limbsaver
- anything else?

When I took the factory pad off, it looked as though the channels for the two screws ran the whole length of the inside of the butt, so hoping rescrewing should be no issue.

Thought I'd check with you guys to see if anyone has any tricks/tips.
Thanks!
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Done it before. Pretty much the way you discribed. Fit a piece of wood tonthe inside of the stock at the length you want. Epoxy it in. Let it dry and start fitting the recoil pad.
Make sure to rough up the interior so the epoxy has something to bite into.
 
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