I was a dork one day last summer. My daughter thought I was always a dork when I emotionally tortured her boyfriends, but this day even I thought I was the all time moron. I had been shooting my Sako Hunter AV in 416 Rem Mag a lot, and one day I didn't check the action screws to see if they were tight. They weren't, and the stock cracked. The crack runs longitudinally through the magazine well area. There isn't enough wood there to run in a 1/8" Brownell's brass stock repair screw. Certainly not enough thickness to use a drill, maybe a mill.
Anyway, if someone is a crack maestro (and not in the turd burglar or cocaine sense), I would like to get this stock put together with multiple screws so it won't break again. The design just fits me perfectly. Using it as a pattern to turn a new stock is the $900.00 (after checkering) solution. That is not in the budget this year or next.
Thanks in advance.
lawndart
aka "disconsolate in Idaho"

You have a significant problem that without seeing the stock I can't tell you if it is fixable. Brownells also sells what looks like a ring shank nail that is much smaller than the 1/8 inch stock screw. A very tiny drill bit is used to predrill for this which is then pressed into place after the stock is glued to fix it.
I wish you luck!

Can you post a pic? Usually you can install a couple of internal bolts (do not show from th eoutside) and have th estock in good shape. A pic would help if there is any way you could post one

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Brownells also sells what looks like a ring shank nail that is much smaller than the 1/8 inch stock screw. A very tiny drill bit is used to predrill for this which is then pressed into place after the stock is glued to fix it.
I wish you luck!

Thanks,
I'll order some.

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Can you post a pic? Usually you can install a couple of internal bolts (do not show from th eoutside) and have th estock in good shape. A pic would help if there is any way you could post one

I'll post some tomorrow. It won't be pretty.

lawndart

Dennis Earl Smith, the Stock Doctor specialises in repairing split stocks. He does work for himself and Westley Richards. You might give him a go.

One stockmaker who has an excellent reputation for fixing broken stocks is Toby Leeds. He has fixed one for me and I have seen a couple of others he has worked on. He does excellent work. http://www.gunshop.com/leeds.htm

Paul

If you are not successful in repairing your stock, try Numrich (e-gunparts.com). I bought a brand new factory Hunter Deluxe stock back in January from them for a LH .375 barreled action I had. Nice wood for a Sako stock, dual crossbolts, excellent wood to metal fit but does need bedded. All for $110. They only show the RH stocks in long action not magnum, but the difference should be only one crossbolt and the barrel channel size.
Good luck,
Steve

Thanks to you all.

The 416 Rem Mag stock is thicker through the wrist than the regular AV stocks. It is incredibly comfortable and well fitting. I will pick up one or two of those AV stocks from Numrich. I always have my eyes peeled for another AV rifle.

I will defer to an experienced stock repair craftsman on this job.

lawndart

Lawndart, looks like you got what you are after. I have found myself in a financial bind while having a cracked stock for my 50 cal Renegade Muzzle loader. No money and a cracked stock. I thought about it long and hard. I drilled multiple holes through the crack from different angles. Got some stainless steel orthodontic wire from the local orthodontist. Put the wire through the holes and got simple acrylic from the orthodontist also. injected the holes with acrylic, It worked like a charm. It was not pretty. It has worked for 6 years without any new cracks. Flexible Stainless steel and acrylic into the wood. It will be there for function if not for beautiful wood. Have a nice hunt.

That tooth wire system sounds pretty neat. The right price also.
I built a Renegade to avoid studying in college one semester. I lost the escutcheon for the retention cross pin. I replaced it with Acraglass, and for good measure bedded the barrel channel (I used to get pretty desperate to avoid studying).
Anyway, it is still going strong too.
If I had just stopped with the Remington 30-06, the 870 12 gauge and the Renegade I would not be so poor today .

lawndart

Sounds like he is using the wire in the same manner i use intenral bolts. Usually use stainless machine screws. First learned the method from the 1984 Gun DIgest in an article by Jack Lott. Works very well.

ANy luck on getting a pic yet? Very badly broken stocks can usually be salvaged with no rpoblem

Bro' lawndart,
I would use a piece of all-thread placed from the inside of the stock, hidden. Use a "dentist's drill" dremel, chisel, etc., whatever, just get the bolt in the place it needs to be and sink it in a thorough embedded-journalist style epoxy bedding. You can have a hidden nut on either side of the all-thread, but not required.

If the bolt or epoxy are just a smidgeon in the way, then file/grind it down until the parts fit back in again. You might even be able to use a bigger diameter bolt than you think and just file it away ... could end up half flat and half round, but it will be a solid repair.

You can do it and don't need no hired help for this. I guess I learned this stuff same as Marc.

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ANy luck on getting a pic yet?

The camera is at the clinic and the stock is at the house. I just put the stock in the back of the truck. I'll take a picture at work and post it tomorrow evening. Damn clinic is getting busier so I have been having to do the doctor thing more and more (Waa, waa, my pussy hurts).

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You can do it and don't need no hired help for this. I guess I learned this stuff same as Marc.

I've fixed a few stocks over the years, but this one is trickier than most (Waa, waa, my pussy still hurts).

lawndart

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Use a "dentist's drill"

The dentist in our little town won't talk to me since I shot two doubles on quail out from under his shotgun bead a couple years ago (Ha, ha, I don't hurt anymore).

lawndart

PS He also got queasy watching my dogs pull feral cats apart while I chuckled.