ARCOREY
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Last night I installed a new Ace skeleton stock on my RRA 24" varmint to replace my standard A-2 stock. This came about after the suggestions of a few members on here telling of the ease of acquiring a better scope picture with a low mounted scope due to the thinner section of stock were the cheek weld is. After installing the stock I went to install the sling swivel and noticed it was for the military loop style sling not the QD hunting type sling that I used with my adapted A-2. I put the sling loop in a vice and and heated the loop cherry red at the turn in the loop with a propane torch. I then grabbed it with a pair of pliers and pulled it out of the screw in stud. With the loop gone it was visable that the stud isn't drilled all the way through like a standard sling stud. I drilled it out with a 9/64 drill bit then installed it in the rear position of the Ace stock. I tighted the stud using an allen wrench as a handle and now it looks as if the stud was made for QD slings /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif. Now sight picture is much better and I dropped a few ounces off the pig in the process. I noticed that field of view was much easier to acquire now that the wider A-2 stock is gone. Prone target testing will happen later today, but I think it will do fine. Now if that Tubb flatwire spring would just get here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. For anyone that has not removed an AR buttstock, there is a little surprise spring on the right side of the stock between the receiver and buttstock. It is very small and willing to flee the first chance it gets, BEWARE /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif. It puts tension on the rear takedown pin and is hard to find in deep pile carpet /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif.