![]() ![]() Repeat this “spotting in” 100 or more times and eventually the stock’s inletted. This leaves black spots on the stock where wood needs to be scraped away. The traditional process involves coating the underside of the barreled action with a dark grease called inletting black, then placing the barreled action in the stock and taking it out again. In the 1980s I started fitting both kinds of stocks to my rifles and eventually did stock work for others-supplementing the meager income of my early writing career and learning a lot from real stock makers along the way.įor most people, the really tedious job of making wood stocks isn’t finishing or checkering, but “finish inletting” even semi-inletted stocks. Many rifle traditionalists considered this the end of civilization, but some people are more flexible than others. This activity peaked in the 1960s, when another gun use for epoxy appeared: synthetic stocks formed in a mold with fiberglass cloth and epoxy. The barreled action could be pressed into inletting smeared with fresh-mixed epoxy, which conformed closely to the metal, and uncountable numbers of garage gunsmiths turned military rifles into hunting rifles. This became easier when epoxy resins became available after World War II, when several companies offered unfinished, semi-inletted stocks for zillions of “war surplus” rifles. Many rifle shooters gunsmith their own rifles, including rebedding stocks or even fitting a new stock. ![]()
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