has anyone here ever had a rifle stock bent to create cast on or off or to adjust the pitch? I had it done once with my duck gun and it was a marked improvement in fit and handling. the gunsmith used hot oil and a lamp in a vice.

the cz lh 550 I just got leaves me high and to the right when I mount it. so, to work with the factory barrel i'd consider having it bent and then re-shaped to clean it up and lose some of that clubby feeling they come with from the factory.

thanks.

Cast and drop are, as you probably know, like hands on a clockface.

Moving the "hands" to 20 minutes to 4 o'clock as it were from fifteen minutes to three o'clock will lower the stock and lower the point of impact.

It is like the stock is one hand and the barrel the other hand. The middle of the clock being like the action.

You increase the drop and that lowers the point of impact.

So the easy solution is to measure out exactly sixteen yards and mount your gun with a bore sighter. The amount you want to take off the comb will be that amount you want to move the point of impact in inches divided by sixteen.

So. Two inches high. Lose 1/8" inch from the heel etc.

As to the left and right. I would not "cast" a rifle by bending but by having either a bespoke stock fitted with that offset already made in it OR altering the thickness of the existing stock.

JJ Perodeau at Champlin Arms "bent" a stock for me on a double rifle.
After the work it fit me much better.

There was no change with the finish of the stock.

As NE 450 No2 says with a double then it is different. But with a CZ550 bolt action I would not try moving the stock.

I fixed up a client a few years back with one of those fully adjustable, left/right/up/down, buttplates. He shoots wearing everything from just a T-shirt to heavy winter clothing. EZ adjust with a hex wrench. Brownells has them. Gotta cut an inch or so off the wood depending on thickness of chosen recoil pad. Short in the looks department but all the way in usefullness.

Good thread.
Is there anyone who does stock bending other than Champlin?
I have a rifle with far too much cast-on, and need to have that taken out of the stock, in the wrist area.

Wouldn't it be easier to bend the barrel?

Brice, Brice!! You beat me to it!
Butch

sergey at rustbluing.com in massachusetts does it.

question: if one were to bend a stock (I've had it done on a duck gun and it made a great improvement on fit) would one bend first and then re-shape the stock if re-shaping were desired or re-shape first and then bend?

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If one were to bend a stock (I've had it done on a duck gun and it made a great improvement on fit) would one bend first and then re-shape the stock if re-shaping were desired or re-shape first and then bend?

It is more difficult with a bolt action rifle and I would not advise it. Why? Because of the way that the stock is fixed to the receiver.

But it is bend first - to get the drop at heel correct - and then remove anything that is needed from the face (or what is called in America the point I think).

Dennis Smith does stock bending. His company is The Stock Doctor (<click here). All of his information is on his site. He is very busy so I'm not sure what his turn around time is but he does a nice job.

Thanks for the info gentlemen.

Don

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Originally posted by Brice:
Wouldn't it be easier to bend the barrel?

Please describe your procedure for doing said barrel bending???