Carbine K-31 Hunt
Form, Body and shape
My
wife is a nice and graceful person. I took her vital statistics to build
the stock. Then I took the shape and the dimension of the R93 rifle Blaser As owner of the bolt-action rifle I can say that the shape and the
dimensions are quite good.
In fathers garage I could plane the walnut chunk. This was only possible with a professional planing machine. Afterwards I took a piece of paper and copied the basic form to the planed chunk. Around the area of the magazine I adapted to the width of the original stock.
At a carpenter I found a very beautiful chunk of walnut.
The measurements of this chunk were approximately 2.5 meters and it costs
me about one 100 US Dollars. The quality of the chunk was very good and the
humidity was very low because this piece had been stored for a long time. I
can cut out three stocks out of this chunk. After cutting out the form the
stock looked like this:
For the mass of the system bedding, barrel bedding,
magazine and trigger recess the original stock of the carbine K-31 was
available at any time. The next step was the trigger recess and the
magazine recess. Therefore I used a 4mm wood drill bit, which I drilled a
hole on each corner of the recess.
Afterwards I used a hacksaw. And with the 12mm carving knife I did the necessary detail and fine work. The result is shown below:
The
next step was to build and work out the bedding system and the barrel
bedding. I think the most important thing on any accuracy rifle is the
system bedding. The purpose of this work is to have a free-floating barrel.
In order to bore the barrel bedding as cleanly as possible, I used a 30mm
wood drill. With a remaining piece of walnut that had remained, I put the
stock together with a wood ferrule and afterwards I drilled the hole.
The
system bedding I did it with a round carving knife. This step was a
manually work and it took me a lot of time. The Dremel-Tool
is a powerful tool, which allowed me to work very precise. Occasionally I
tried to put the pieces together. This looks as shown on the left.
Afterwards I drilled the hole of the receiver screw and the hole of the tang screw.
Conception & Realization: Collani Interactive