Dr. Marneaus
.270 WIN
Well, this has started.
I picked up a corncob fore end and started working on it
Problems:
-they are all made for the longer action tube on the Mossbergs, the shockwave uses a shorter action tube.
-they are not made for the heavy barrels and require fitting on the upper edges in order to move past the half way mark in the stroke.
-they dont have a strap built in to keep your hand from disappearing when it crosses the muzzle.
Good things:
-it'll look bad ass.
So, i got the fore end, removed the old one, did some measuring. I had to lop off around 1 1/4" of overall length from the front. Before doing that, i took a holesaw that was the correct diameter, and drilled down approximately 1 3/8" to shorten the "inner" sounter bored area that the action tube rides in. Moving it down this far exposed the threads on the action tube, which is what is needed.
Then, it was shortened enough to allow the action tube cap to reach the threads. I measured and compared to the original for this.
Here's where we are at:
So, the next step is to counter bore so that the nut itself can sit about halfway inside the wood of the fore end, this will keep it centered. Currently it just locks the wood to the action tube by tightening down against the front of the wood.
Following that, I will re-porfile the upper edges so that I can actually rack the action all the way to the rear, and have a functioning gun.
I have some nice ideas for a leather hand strap on the wooden fore end. My goal is to basically flush mount a leather strap so that it doesn't have corners and screws sticking up like the factory half-arsed job mossberg did with the nylon webbing. I'll have to cut down an area at the front and rear fo the fore end for this. We'll see how that progresses. I will not be shooting this gun without the strap.
i'm not positive I will be making a wooden birds head. If i do, i will be stippling it by hand for some grip. Part of the reason I dont know if I want to do that is because the plastic grip itself is slippery, hence the fabric tape. I'm concerned that wood, even stippled, will be equally as slippery, and thats alot of work to do to just cover with tape.
I guess i could always do like a leather cord wrap on the wooden grip....hmmm....that might look interesting
I picked up a corncob fore end and started working on it
Problems:
-they are all made for the longer action tube on the Mossbergs, the shockwave uses a shorter action tube.
-they are not made for the heavy barrels and require fitting on the upper edges in order to move past the half way mark in the stroke.
-they dont have a strap built in to keep your hand from disappearing when it crosses the muzzle.
Good things:
-it'll look bad ass.
So, i got the fore end, removed the old one, did some measuring. I had to lop off around 1 1/4" of overall length from the front. Before doing that, i took a holesaw that was the correct diameter, and drilled down approximately 1 3/8" to shorten the "inner" sounter bored area that the action tube rides in. Moving it down this far exposed the threads on the action tube, which is what is needed.
Then, it was shortened enough to allow the action tube cap to reach the threads. I measured and compared to the original for this.
Here's where we are at:
So, the next step is to counter bore so that the nut itself can sit about halfway inside the wood of the fore end, this will keep it centered. Currently it just locks the wood to the action tube by tightening down against the front of the wood.
Following that, I will re-porfile the upper edges so that I can actually rack the action all the way to the rear, and have a functioning gun.
I have some nice ideas for a leather hand strap on the wooden fore end. My goal is to basically flush mount a leather strap so that it doesn't have corners and screws sticking up like the factory half-arsed job mossberg did with the nylon webbing. I'll have to cut down an area at the front and rear fo the fore end for this. We'll see how that progresses. I will not be shooting this gun without the strap.
i'm not positive I will be making a wooden birds head. If i do, i will be stippling it by hand for some grip. Part of the reason I dont know if I want to do that is because the plastic grip itself is slippery, hence the fabric tape. I'm concerned that wood, even stippled, will be equally as slippery, and thats alot of work to do to just cover with tape.
I guess i could always do like a leather cord wrap on the wooden grip....hmmm....that might look interesting
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