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This happened at the range today. The rifle slid back on recoil, and the pistol grip contacted the rear cradle of my rest. To my surprise the part fell right into my lap :?

What type of glue should I use to fix this?

Anybody got a Remington Mountain Rifle stock for sale?

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This is in the mighty 30-06...

I certainly wouldn't have thought this might happen from recoil in the rest; I would have guessed the pistol grip would have rode up the cradle...

I believe I'm the 3rd owner of this otherwise excellent rifle.

I see that I have the broken piece sitting backwards in the photo, but you get the idea...
 
God that is just nasty. :shock: Just like seeing a kid knock out his front teeth. :shock: The good news is that it is not at a point that effects the accuracy of the rifle.

I would first buy some gunstock epoxy (not the 5 minute kind). Wipe both parts and surrounding area with laquer thinner (to remove any oils, fats, greese etc.). I would remove that screw that holds the cap on. Dry fit everything and rig the stock so it can be clamped using some sort of buffer material between the clamp jaws. Take away the clamps. Epoxy both parts and clamp tightly. Wipe away excess epoxy with a rag soaked lightly in laquer thinner. Let dry at least 24 hours. Carefully drill the cap screw hole deeper (we are going to put a longer screw in to both hold the cap and grip both parts together. DO NOT DRILL TOO DEEP OR CROOKED!!!!! Take your time. Take screw and rub it into a hard bar of soap (aids in screwing into really hard wood). Screw in cap. Sand around joint lightly. Rub boiled linseed oil (if stock is oil finished) or laquer if gloss stock. Good Luck.

If you are looking for a new stock, why not buy a high quality Synthetic? :idea:
 

Use a good wood glue and rubber tubing to clamp it. The way it broke off should make it easy to glue back in place. Make sure you wrap the tubing around to clamp it down well so you will get a tight joint. Wipe off the excess glue while it is fresh.

If you screw this up with either glue or epoxy and do not get it clamped down tight in the correct alignment, it will never be able to be repaired nicely.

It would not cost much for a qualified "wood" person to do this right.
 
If that were my rifle, I would fix it with waterproof wood glue and a traditional F-style clamp. The rubber tubing trick works well, but a F-style clamp can be tightened enough to hold well with a hardly noticable crack-line and allows access around the crack for cleaning up the excess glue that squeezes out. I'd use Titebond III glue (available from Lee Valley) which is easy to clean up with water and is much less fussy than exopy.
 
If you aren't an experienced wood worker, stick the piece somewhere safe and bring it to Catinthehat once you get to Ft Mac. If you are an experienced wood worker, remove the two machine screws that are holding the metal cap on the piece that came off, go to a hardware store and buy two new screws with the same head and thread size but 1" longer. Glue the piece back in place with titebond (water resistant wood glue) and once it has dried drill the holes deeper with the correct sized drill, run a tap in just like it was metal then screw the cap back in place with the new screws. The screws will now be biting into a much stronger piece of the stock so this won't happen again. Using machine screws in hardwood instead of wood screws is a fairly new practice, but if you look closely at the photo's you will see the existing screws are machine screws, not wood screws
 
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