Here's how mine is coming alone.
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Looks like the eBay set to meWelcome JoeBuck. Your Shockwave looks great. Explain the breacher on the ammo tube.
Did you cut your rear grip from a full stock?
Yes it isNice! Is that the eBay furniture?
Yeah....As we say in the South....It's a Love, Hate, Thang.
What kind of wood is that? It looks more like fresh cow hide.
Yes it is
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I dunno it's whatever wood mossberg makes their wood stuff out of if you catch my drift.
Mossberg uses either Birch or Walnut trees. From the looks of your picture, I think you're carving a Birch tree into a raptor grip.
Birch trees are pretty common these days. It's inexpensive, pretty strong, and fairly resistant to cracking in freezing temps.
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With that receiver rail in place, he can't use the front bead anyway. If he tried, he'd be shooting well above what he was aiming at.
I'm not sure why anyone hasn't just marked where a hole needs to be drilled to accommodate the front sight yet. It would be really simple to do.
Place a drop of paint on top of your front sight, then put the shield in place, which would leave a paint mark on the inside surface of the shield so you know exactly where to center punch and drill a hole larger than the front bead for clearance. That would also help to keep the shield from walking under recoil because the bead would be through it too.
Or even judicious measuring would be more than adequate without the mess would be even better.
With as many as are putting heatshields on their gun, I've been waiting for someone to measure and drill it. But I've not noticed anyone do it yet.
Question:
is it necessary for me to install some kind of filler screw in the hole where the old bead was on my barrel?