Remington 7400 forearm

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Browning_300wsm

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First time out shooting my new to me 7400 this afternoon and the damn forearm cracks from one end to the other! Anyone ever fixed one of these? It's literally in two pieces, I think it's only end cap holding it together. Ideally I'd like to find a replacement one, it's wood with the nice checkering. Anyone have one laying around or know where I could get one? I put a post up in the classifieds already but figured it might get a little more traffic here. Thanks.
 
I was looking for a 7400 forestock for quite awhile to use for a Boyds stock installation on my 7400. Finally gave up and cut the wood out of my 7400 forestock and used the inside metal frame to go in the Boyds forestock.

If your internal metal frame is still ok, I'd do a Boyds stock conversion. I'm happy with mine.
 
I was looking at the Boyd's stocks, is yours wood? I just don't want it to look like cheap wood. They only have generic pics on the website so I'm not sure how good they look. I do like the look of the pepper laminate they make, might go with that if I can't find a Remington replacement.
 
Browning_300wsm said:
I was looking at the Boyd's stocks, is yours wood? I just don't want it to look like cheap wood. They only have generic pics on the website so I'm not sure how good they look. I do like the look of the pepper laminate they make, might go with that if I can't find a Remington replacement.
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I got the light grey laminate thumbhole and I couldn’t be happier. I’ll have to see if I can get a pic of it.
 
Degrease the inside ,tape over the crack on the outside run some super glue in the crack, clamp lightly ,when that dries put a fiberglass thin patch on the inside.It should be an invisible repair from the outside , and last forever.
 
Op, have you checked if there was a reason why your forestock cracked? A friend has his 7400 Carbine forestock cracked and repaired it but after a couple of shots later it cracked again in a different spot. He took it to our local gunsmith and found the gas block that’s welded on the barrel was cracked at the weld and allowing a gas leak thus pressurizing the forestock area.
Have a good look before you have the same problem.
 
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