Flex in a Howa stock

[Derwood]

I have had my Howa with Hogue stock for 2 years now and my experience is limited to shooting fox's and corvids but I have hit the large majority of what I have aimed at. Well pleased with it.

 

[Brithunter]

A friend in the US had similar problems with a cheap plastic stock, although I cannot recall on what rifle it was nor the make of stock, his solution was to glass bed a couple of arrow shafts into the fore stock. The arrow shafts come in alloy, fibre glass or carbon fibre and are of course tubular so they add little weight.

He cut through the webs in the stock and tightly fitted the shafts then glass filled the voids. Problem solved. Of course him being into archery helped as he had the shafts on hand .

 

[Huntersforge]

I have a Hogue stock on my Remington 700 varmint and it was all over the place until I trimmed a bit off the forend barrel channel . Shoots fine now though

 

[fizzbangwhallop]

Don't forget there are 3 versions of Hogue.... at least there used to be... they're not all flexi.

The basic one as they come on the Howa, next has short aircraft aluminium chassis and the top one has a full-length ally chassis.

I bought one of the full-length ones of and had my 7mm RemMag Ruger bedded into it. That shot well.

atb

Fizz