What is the "comb" on a stock?
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Bayou City Boy
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Bigdog2:
I think you might have confused a cheek piece with a stock comb.
The comb of a stock is the top part of the stock going back from the pistol grip (point of comb) to the rifle butt plate (heel of comb) on a flat combed stock. A Ruger 77 stock is a flat combed stock.
A Remington 700 BDL has a raised Monte Carlo comb which is a "hump" on the top of the stock that begins at the back of the pistol grip and ends a couple of inches before the butt plate on the stock.
A rifle stock may have a flat comb and a cheek piece or a raised Monte Carlo style comb and a cheek piece, or a stock may have either type of comb and no cheek piece.
- BCB
I think you might have confused a cheek piece with a stock comb.
The comb of a stock is the top part of the stock going back from the pistol grip (point of comb) to the rifle butt plate (heel of comb) on a flat combed stock. A Ruger 77 stock is a flat combed stock.
A Remington 700 BDL has a raised Monte Carlo comb which is a "hump" on the top of the stock that begins at the back of the pistol grip and ends a couple of inches before the butt plate on the stock.
A rifle stock may have a flat comb and a cheek piece or a raised Monte Carlo style comb and a cheek piece, or a stock may have either type of comb and no cheek piece.
- BCB
The comb is the top of the stock closest to the centerline of the bore. Some have a raised or monte carlo comb, some don't. Monte carlo combs are better for scoped guns and straight combs are better for open sights, in most cases. Some stocks also have a 'cheekpiece', this is the bulge on either side of the stock for the shooters to rest his or her cheek on.
Suavegato
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Ok, thanks. that makes sense. I wasn't sure but that's what I thought it was. I just got confussed when I was looking for a Custom stock for my Savage 93R in .17 HMR and found this article (http://www.savageshooters.net/Articles/RestockingM93.html) towards the bottom of the article he complains that the COMB on the custom stock is too high for the bolt to be removed...
"One thing that I don’t like about the stock is that the comb is too high. You can’t remove the bolt from the gun while it is in the action. I don’t think you can remove enough wood to make removing the bolt work and still have a comb left."
THAT WOULD SUCK! I got confused because I was thinking, how could that be? how would you clean it? I know you could clean it from the muzzle but what a pain... would you have to remove the action from the stock to take the bolt out? Am I missing something here?
thanks,
"One thing that I don’t like about the stock is that the comb is too high. You can’t remove the bolt from the gun while it is in the action. I don’t think you can remove enough wood to make removing the bolt work and still have a comb left."
THAT WOULD SUCK! I got confused because I was thinking, how could that be? how would you clean it? I know you could clean it from the muzzle but what a pain... would you have to remove the action from the stock to take the bolt out? Am I missing something here?
thanks,
Bayou City Boy
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One thing that could be done is to groove or "scoop out" the comb starting at the point of the comb and going back just far enough to allow the bolt to be removed. This is sometimes done with target stocks with high flat combs and you only need to go back maybe two inches at the most.
Doing that should not bother cheek placement unless you really "crawl the stock" forward when shooting.
- BCB
Doing that should not bother cheek placement unless you really "crawl the stock" forward when shooting.
- BCB
BroncoGlenn
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The part of the stock used to fix your hair after a long, frustrating, and fruitless day of hunting. On women's models of guns the comb is usually replaced with a brush.
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