The Ole Cracked Stock

shakeyjake

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So what do you recommend? I shot the 9.3x62 six times and I think the crack got a little bigger. Take it apart and glue it, or just buy a new stock?
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There is supposed to be a bit of clearance between the tip of the rear tang and the wood - exactly created that crack, because the rear of the tang is acting like a recoil lug and transferring recoil to the stock there. When you have it apart - take a good look at the recoil lug recess - is it pounded back? Quick fix is to insert a shim - say .020 or .025 between the recoil lug on the action and it's wood recess. Best fix is to glass bed the action, but have a .025 or so shim around that rear tang to create that space that is needed on a mauser.
 
Potashminer is correct, you need to fix the issue that caused it as well as the crack itself.
I wouldn't bother with a pin and the hardest part will be choosing a glue and technique that can get in to the crack, after you've de-oiled it with some alcohol.
Small cocktail type skewers or someting similar can be used to wedge it open if it moves at all and then a bit of air might help blow the glue in a bit deeper.....
I've never tried Lee Valley's "chair doctor" adhesive but it is supposedly very thin and runs well into small cracks and then swells and glues the fibre.
Not sure how it would work on a micro stock crack but it might be worth experimenting with on another piece of spit wood to see how it preforms.
 
As above, create a gap behind the rear tang.

I've had very good results repairing cracks as shown with FastCap 2P-10 (thin).
 
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