Wombat wrote:If you can draw up what pillars are needed, I'll turn up a couple of sets in brass, give you one set and keep the other. I've been considering doing my Model 2 for a while.
Mate im not sure what id need at this point...im doing my research.
For those interested, Heres the history of my brno---
It shot great-for 25 years & has knocked over many a fox & one or so bunnies in that time...-was my go to fav rifle of all time.
Then i re finished the stock on my 22-250 & got all excited about sexy accurate guns so decided to play with the brno---(bad idea) i floated it because the barrel had a lot of pressure on it, thinking it can only make it better...
Baou/Baouw (sound effect)...it shot worse...so i floated it some more & the stock moved & hit the barrel agian...so i floated it more...each time it shot worse...!!!...(i know--im thinking EXACTLY the same as all of you right now...!!!)
I took it to a smith who noticed the rolled pin/action screw housing thingo was sitting proud of the inside of the stock so with out bothering to check it was properly seated he ripped it out & milled 3mm off of it.
Now its too short & the rifle shoots worse again.
That was all 2 years ago--spoke to another smith who wanted to cut 3 inches off the chamber end of it & somehow rechamber it...i dont think so buddy...!!!!!
Then it sat in another place waiting for it to be bedded for nearly a year...then i went in & the guy said he was going to put screws in knox forms & machine this & bed that Bend this bit & make that up etc etc but it would be cheap...being desperate i let it go for another few months & still nothing...
Long story short i was in there one day & asked what it was going to cost & they said over $300....
Its my bunny gun for gods sake--im not defending my world championship BR comp next week...!!!
So i took it away...it shot before i floated it & fukd with the barrel pressure, so i figure bedding it back is the way to go--& i dont trust any of these guys.
Here i am 6 months later & i want my gun back & shooting. (it shoots 40mm groups at 50m now, misses & clips bunnies out to 60yds--so i dont use it).
So the mod 2 has a rolled pin (of sorts) that the action screw houses through...to me this is the same as a pillar--it stops the stock from crushing. (correct me if im wrong)
Thanks to an incompetant gunsmith mine is now too short & i crush timber when i do up the screw...so i was going to replace it.
I managed to get hold of a new one, but its too long & i dont have a lathe so i was going to get some cheap ali tube to try & butcher it with my belt sander back to the same length as the depth of the stock.
As for the front screw, well ive floated (too much) the channed, & also further relieved the timber where the barrel nut is for the front screw.
To tell the truth wombat im not sure what dimensions these pillars should be/if they need to be bedded in as well...or anything else...i just see guys on the net drill them out in a press--i dont have a press so not something i want to try freehand (yet--although i am pretty good with a drill). Hence why i was going to get some ali tube of the same dimensions as the rolled pin.
I was going to get some ali tube, sand it down to sit just proud of the timber (so the action sits 1mm high), plug everything up with platdoh & try a mock-up bedding with some plastibond next time up the farm & shoot it then & there.
If it worked id rip it all out & then properly relieve the timber & sand down the tube.
So at this point im not sure of what dimensions to give you wombat...
But your offer is a very kind one, & one i wish i could accept right away...!
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