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Stupid Stock Question (Warped Sense of Humor)

glennjw
I have a Savage 110 stock that has warped to the right (like it's owner). Now the barrel doesn't seat properly. Does anyone know how to unwarp, or warp it back? I just hate to spend $60 plus dollars for a new one. Any suggestions, or ideas, will be appreciated.
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  • iwannausername
    Contact Savage, they are great on customer service.
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  • glennjw
    You're a lot of help. Next, you'll be telling me to bend the barrel so I can shoot to the right, or around corners. Thanks for the humor.
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  • shootlow
    quote:glennjw Posted - 05/05/2009 : 11:22:20 AM
    You're a lot of help. Next, you'll be telling me to bend the barrel so I can shoot to the right, or around corners. Thanks for the humor.

    you must not know some old trap shooters
    they will bend and tune a barrel to shoot where they are looking
    the first time i seen it happen i almost had a runaway [:D]
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  • 11b6r
    Resisting the urge to make really bad jokes (stock market being one of them)- I take it this is a wooden stock?

    If so, there are things you can do involving steam, pressure, weights- and the same factors (grain of the wood, moisture) are going to make it warp again. Would contact Savage, and see where that leads.
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  • ern98
    Anything is possible if you are willing to put the time and/or money into it. Around the house I have had little success with steaming and bending wood, assuming that your stock is wood. Your community may well have someone who professionally steams and bends wood for the furniture business you could talk with them about it. Still the problem remains to get it to go straight and true. Your stock probably warped to where it is because that is where the wood really wants to be and will probably be difficult to get back to ture. IMO, the suggestion about contacting Savage about it is probably the best and replacing it the second best. If your locality has high humidity or such you might want to consider synthetic or laminate stocks as a replacement so this does not happen again. Good luck with it......
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  • OleDuk
    Glenn, how much is it warped? You might be able to open up the barrel channel if not too much and get the barrel clear of the stock. Might look like crap but you could then glass bed the piece and it might then shoot more to your liking.

    Good luck,

    OleDuk[:)][:)]
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  • glennjw
    Thanks for the help guys. Yes, it is a wood stock. I guess from what I'm reading that the best thing to do is hog out the channel and glass bed. I sure do appreciate the ideas (and the humor).
    Thanks
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  • haroldchrismeyer
    I suggest getting a different stock. If it is warped now, it will warp again. Accuracy will suffer, not to mention looks if you have to take a lot of wood out of the channel to make it fit. Wood for a stock has to be stable to make it a functioning part of a good rifle, and this one just isn't stable.
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  • David Nunn
    I believe in taking the path of least resistance, where possible. I have had very good results with most gun manufacturers' factory service, so if I have a problem, I go to the manufacturer first.

    Were this my rifle, I would contact Savage. I would try really hard not to return the entire rifle, but only the stock, in return for a new stock. It will only cost you a few bucks to send the stock USPS. Get a Priority Mail triangular mailing tube, wrap bubble wrap around the stock, and send it.
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  • nmyers
    Some years ago there was a company that specialized in bending wood stocks. As I recall, they used a combination of clamps & vices, & sometimes weights; I believe they applied steam, but a vaporizer would work. It took several weeks, but the results were permanent.

    If you don't want to buy a new stock, this may be worth a try.

    Neal
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  • rstbkt69
    60 bucks does not sound like a bad price to pay if the factory wont kick in anything for you. I just paid 325.00 for a stock and then 200 to have it cut down and a recoil pad put on it for my daughter. It may well cost over 60 bucks to steam and bend this one or the time required to carve out and then glass bed will certainly run close to that. I work with wood and on a radius curve in a piece of wood is larger that the curve you are looking for so I really doubt you could do it yourself without spending 60 bucks on stock bending gear. But I just need one reason to buy a tool so that may work out for you in the long run. Lots of good suggestions up above. try the factory first and then maybe some auction place for a synthetic or wood stock. But even if you get a wooden stock it may have to be fit to the gun too. Good luck
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