Monday, March 28, 2005
Match Stock Thigh Rest
Wow, it has been almost a week since my last blog, time sure flies when you are busy! I have been working on my HW97 match stock over the past week trying to get ready for the FT season starting this coming weekend at Baton Rouge. I have been busy building up the pistol grip on my Macarri stock (more on that in a later blog) and the other thing I made was an adjustable/removable thigh rest.
I have been wanting to make something like this so I can reat the rear of the stock on my thigh without having to try to contort my body to get the stock itself on my thigh. That really put me in a strained position and makes it difficult to relax when I shoot. A thigh rest will get the gun up off my leg so that I can sit more comfortably and relaxed.
I decided that I would make a plate that would mount under my current Morgan butt plate and have an extension out of the right bottom of the plate to mount a removable arm that would contact my thigh. I started by tracing the Morgan buttplate onto a piece of 1/8" steel and then sketching in the extension at the bottom. I then found come 1 1/2" steel tubing, cut it to 2" lenght, and then cut off 1/3 of the tube to form a semi-circle. I welded a 1/2" x 1 1/2" piece of 1/8" steel to the tube and that formed the actual thigh rest. I drilled two hole in the thighrest arm and welded a pin in the top hole. I then drilled two holes in the buttplate extension, one for the pin and the other for a threaded screw. The thighrest arm was then inserted into the buttplate extension and swung the arm above and below the main hole and drilled two more holes so the arm can be moved up or down as needed.
With a couple of mounting holes drilled in the buttplate piece the whole thing was ready to be painted an mounted. After I mounted it on the rifle I got some tennis racket grip tape and applied some of that to the face of the thigh rest which gives it a bit more grip on the leg. All and all it turned out pretty good, I can adjuste it up and down for various shots and it can be easily removed for transport. It really helps me to relax and has improvde my overall consistancy.
I have been wanting to make something like this so I can reat the rear of the stock on my thigh without having to try to contort my body to get the stock itself on my thigh. That really put me in a strained position and makes it difficult to relax when I shoot. A thigh rest will get the gun up off my leg so that I can sit more comfortably and relaxed.
I decided that I would make a plate that would mount under my current Morgan butt plate and have an extension out of the right bottom of the plate to mount a removable arm that would contact my thigh. I started by tracing the Morgan buttplate onto a piece of 1/8" steel and then sketching in the extension at the bottom. I then found come 1 1/2" steel tubing, cut it to 2" lenght, and then cut off 1/3 of the tube to form a semi-circle. I welded a 1/2" x 1 1/2" piece of 1/8" steel to the tube and that formed the actual thigh rest. I drilled two hole in the thighrest arm and welded a pin in the top hole. I then drilled two holes in the buttplate extension, one for the pin and the other for a threaded screw. The thighrest arm was then inserted into the buttplate extension and swung the arm above and below the main hole and drilled two more holes so the arm can be moved up or down as needed.
With a couple of mounting holes drilled in the buttplate piece the whole thing was ready to be painted an mounted. After I mounted it on the rifle I got some tennis racket grip tape and applied some of that to the face of the thigh rest which gives it a bit more grip on the leg. All and all it turned out pretty good, I can adjuste it up and down for various shots and it can be easily removed for transport. It really helps me to relax and has improvde my overall consistancy.
