pump shotgun "Gription"

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I have an old Winchester 2200 I am reworking into a tactical style for blasting things and dragging through the bush. The original finish was shot with a lot of pitting on the barrel etc so I went ahead and sandblasted everything and coated all the metal parts with bake on engine enamel and it looks decent the problem I have is that the stock set I found for it was an old wood set that I stripped and painted black with roll bar epoxy paint. the checkering is decent but I still find that I don't get a really solid grip on the pump arm and it tends to stick a bit in the full back position. just wondering what others have done to improve pump handle "gription". part of my problem is that the first 2 fingers of my left hand don't grip well due to an old injury making it even harder to run the pump with authority. Here is a picture of what I have so far ... still need a but plate but otherwise pretty much ready to shoot
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Couple different options. You could spray it with something like Flex-seal, or the rubber coating that they sell at Canadian Tire for tool handles. A small piece of magpul rail installed with an AFG (Angles Foregrip) or other hand stop, or even a vertical foregrip. Or a piece of webbing glued/screwed to the fore-end like Mossberg did on the "Shockwave"
 
I was thinking skateboard grip tape might work but could be rough on the hands if you aren't wearing gloves . I also have a small section of rail from a paintball gun that could be epoxied and screwed on for a vertical grip but I would be worried about breaking it off. I really don't want to have to buy a new stock set for this as I'm trying to keep it as cheap as possible
 
Red Beard Forge said:
I was thinking skateboard grip tape might work but could be rough on the hands if you aren't wearing gloves . I also have a small section of rail from a paintball gun that could be epoxied and screwed on for a vertical grip but I would be worried about breaking it off. I really don't want to have to buy a new stock set for this as I'm trying to keep it as cheap as possible
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Gotta say, I was surprised at how cheap the Hogue stock-set was a Epps. Think it was about $65. Guessing it's not as popular as the 870 & Mossberg sets. Expected it to be closer to about $90-95.
 
madashell said:
Gotta say, I was surprised at how cheap the Hogue stock-set was a Epps. Think it was about $65. Guessing it's not as popular as the 870 & Mossberg sets. Expected it to be closer to about $90-95.
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Wish I had known that earlier in this build lol I ended up paying $60 for a cracked wood set
 
You could do this to mount the rail .
G.Mitchell said:
I used threaded hole inserts like these from Home Depot but with coarser threads. The inserts I used were already threaded inside to match the threads on the bolts that came with the rail sections.

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The way I did it was I marked my holes, then drilled them with a bit slightly smaller than the insert. I threaded the insert and ensured the way in straight, took them back out and installed them again coated in JB Weld. Once that dried I filed the inserts down flush to the forend then installed the rail with more JBWeld to hold everything together.

Seems to have worked ok.
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those inserts are a great idea I just grabbed a handful at rona and a magpul mlock hand stop and Im going to figure out tonight where I want to mount it and probably inlet it into the wood and epoxy it as well as bolting it on with the inserts
 
got the hand stop mounted on the forearm and it works pretty well ... of course now I need to refinish the wood but I wasnt very happy with the paint anyway so its a good excuse to re-do it I will post a pic when it looks presentable... also if anyone has a winchester 2200/1200 butt plate kicking around please let me know so I can officially complete this project (see my wtb in shotgun parts on the EE)
 
G.Mitchell said:
That turned out great! Nice work.
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Thanks I ended up just using the machine screws and inserts to attach the hand stop in case I ever want to remove it and it seems plenty strong. I also resolved the sticky pump stroke... turns out the paint on the action arms was binding in the receiver at the end of the pump stroke. A little acetone and steel wool removed it and now it pumps like butter. The mag spring is a bit stiff loading shells 6 and 7 but I can live with that and if it annoys me enough I will just trim a coil or two off the spring. Now I just need a bead and a butt plate ... who am I kidding I will probably keep tinkering on this forever. I am thinking a fiber optic bead epoxied on will work just fine now just to find one that will work
 
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