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Mtnhntr,
West is as brittle as they come. Its an old formulation that the father designed over 30 yrs ago. The little trust fund babies he created, continue to market it, with no change. It creates nasty amine blush during curing that is hard to remove, and hard to paint over. Those amine compounds are bad for your skin. It's as brittle as a glass mirror.

Bedding something to take recoil, your only going to get a mechanical bond. That bond can't be brittle.

Personally, I'd use resin research 2040, thickened with cabosil, strengthened with 3 inch long stands of kevlar fiber. Take apart and cut pieces kevlar cloth to make your fiber.

Skim coat the area a with raw unthickened epoxy first. This is your penetrating coat, to promote adhesion. Let that coat tack up, before the fiber and cabosil enhanced coat goes in. Do all this at 75 degree Fahrenheit with low humidity. Use slow hardener so it doesn't set up too fast for you to finish your work.

Leave the job be for 24 hours at 75 degrees before you begin shaping or removing slag.

Forgot to add: prior to job, rough area with 60 grit. Only clean area with stove alcohol. Epoxies are finnicky and react badly to certain chemical degreasers. Little shallow pock marks with a 1/4" drill bit doesnt hurt either. These act like rebar-reinforced concrete pillars, when the thickened resin flows into them.

The compressive strength of 2040 resin is insane. You can pound on it with a sledge hammer. It wont crack, but will dent.

I made felling wedges with 2040 for my tree work. The plastic ones from stihl and husqvarna are too brittle in the cold. I smack them into back cuts on trees im felling with a 3lb splitting/forestry axe. They never crack.

Ok mainer what is your opinion of Brown Precision stocks? I have several of them mostly 'pounders and haven't had any issuses.