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| try putting it in the freezer over night and then rapping it loose with a rubber mallet. Sometimes works if you originally used release agent. |
| Posts: 767 | Location: Seeley Lake Montana | Registered: 17 April 2002 |
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| Take a bag of lead shot and put it on a heavy table. Take out the action screws and holding the the gun by the forend and pistol grip give the barrel a solid thunk a few times just forward of the forend. If that doesn't work freeze the rifle and try again. |
| Posts: 457 | Location: Kentucky | Registered: 25 February 2002 |
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| Thanks, I got it in the freezer now and hope to get it free. I also got the dremel tool ready just in case but I hate to do that as I spent alot of time on the hand rub finish I put on it but the bottom line is the stock has to come off. Thanks again. Greg |
| Posts: 71 | Location: north pole , alaska | Registered: 30 June 2003 |
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| I bought a glued-in synthetic stocked 40-X a while back that I needed to get out of the stock to rebarrel. I put it in a walk-in freezer overnight, then the next morning I clamped the stock in a padded vise just forward of the receiver. I smacked the bottom of the barrel with a rawhide mallet just in front of the tip of the forend. On the third "smack", it came loose & lifted right out.
This was on a rifle that was intentionally glued in with no release agent used. |
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| I'm a little uncomfortable with prising or hammering on the barrel. It wouldn't take much to bend the receiver.
So I got that slide hammer that Brownell's sells- the one that has a piece of bar stock that replaces the bolt, with several holes into which a rod screws, and there's a weight that slides up and down the rod? Don't know, it's out in the garage somewhere.
The advantage is of course that you don't trash the bedding when the action comes out, because it goes straight "up", out of the stock. And there is no levering on the receiver by the barrel. |
| Posts: 264 | Location: Grand Prairie, TX, USA | Registered: 17 September 2001 |
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| I drop the gun while it is upside down and let the stock hit a bench. The barreld action usually comes out, but I have broken three stocks |
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| Thanks to all,Have any of you had to cut one off... just in case. |
| Posts: 71 | Location: north pole , alaska | Registered: 30 June 2003 |
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| Took it out of the freezer and with a little effort it popped right out. Thanks to all! Greg |
| Posts: 71 | Location: north pole , alaska | Registered: 30 June 2003 |
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| Glad to hear it worked! |
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| My dad used to loosen the action screws a turn or two and go shoot it a few times. |
| Posts: 40 | Location: Kansas | Registered: 27 August 2003 |
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