Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Has anyone ever cut a tikka stock down?

Wife's rifle stock is a bit long for her. Has anyone cut one down and if so how difficult was it?

Thanks.

Not yet, but planning to. Cutting is the easy part- the stock is hollow plastic. I am planning of gluing a a flip flop pad on mine

Yes. I've cut about a dozen. Depending on the amount of the cut you might need a backer to screw the pad on. Careful what pad you buy will likely be a small.

Carlos is the man for the job....he has chopped at least 9 for me , all have turned out great

Here's a few stocks Carlos has chopped...all are cut to 13.125" LOP no matter the length of the pad

You're a dirty little Tikka slut, Mistem. Who knew?

. I knew

Cut the wife's savage down. Then epoxied a filler board inside to screw the limbs aver to. Worked well.

Tell us more about the rifle in the white stock that is second from the bottom.

Carlos should be getting my wife's stock soon -

Just my 308 Win with a 5 round magazine...painted one stock white with black webbing to use as my winter rifle ....Boring Tikka accurate

Mistem....those are some great looking paint jobs! Are you doing them yourself? Krylon??

Also...looks like you've replaced the pads. Do you happen to have a factory pad you'd sell reasonable. Found a used T3 .243 with a l
Limbsaver and it' way too long now and a bit sticky to boot. Thanks.

Paint them myself with Krylon and a coat of Duracoat clear matte when all done.....I have several of the factory pads and will donate as many as you want for the price of shipping....pm me your address.

So, here are a few quick pics of what I did for my son's Tikka over the weekend. I removed the factory pad, and popped out the plastic "frame" in the butt. I wanted a 12.5" LOP, and the flip flops I bought ($0.98 at walmart) were 1/2" thick. So, mark the stock, cut close to the line with a hacksaw, and then evened out with my 12" circular sander.

Here is a look into the stock after this work was complete


Next, I took the plastic frame, previously removed, and trimmed the top and bottom so it would fit in the trimmed stock. I also had to sand the edges of this frame thinner since the trimmed stock is narrower than the factory length stock. Here is the frame after this work is done



Next, cram 3 plastic grocery bags into the butt- this makes a huge improvement to keep the stock from sounding so hollow, and adds essentially no weight. The, a little 5 minute epoxy was added to the sides of the stock and the trimmed frame reinserted.



Next, trim the flip flop to rough size, degrease flip flop and stock, and apply a bit of devcon to the stock edge and frame. Apply the flip flop pad, and tape in place until cured.



The next day, I removed the tape and sanded the pad on my 12" sander. I slightly rounded the edges with a sanding block for the final finish. Not my best work, but for a grand total of like $1.37 in materials and 30-45 minutes of my time, it's not too bad, and a heck of a lot better for my son.

Well there ya' freakin' go! Nice work

W