it's time to replace this thin awful butt pad on the back of the Boyd's
Pro varmint stock we're going to put on a POC mired decelerator and what we have
to do first is get this thing off which sounds like it should be easy but last
time I tried to remove this thing it did not want to go anywhere now what I've
done is I've gone ahead and put just a little bit of grease on the to screw
points right here and I put a little bit of grease on the screwdriver as well
because we don't want to tear this thing up we want this to be as painless a
removal as possible just in case we do to put this thing back on or something
but yeah let's go ahead and unscrew this
both of these screws are now loose but this thing is still going nowhere it
really feels like it's glued in place so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pop this
into the vise and I'm gonna see if I can maybe tap on this to remove it I didn't
even have to do any tapping check this out all I had to do is just check this
thing and device and yeah it's pretty obvious there was a little something
stuck to the back side of this but popped right out but uh one of the
things that I'm anxious to figure out is if the screw spacing is the same on this
butt pad as on this one I'm really hoping so because this thing is
pre-drilled and I'd rather not have to bust any new holes in this so gone ahead
and I've stuck the screws through done did it uh it fits
okay so all we have to do is we can use these same screws that we can use the
screws that originally came with this boyd's pad or we can use the new ones
I'm pretty sure the exact same thing same thread pitch and all that I'm gonna
check them out and see if there actually are any differences but yeah we should
be pretty good to go on this one now one thing that we have to do next this side
of the pad probably has no cuts in it there's actually no way to get the screw
inside this side of the pad so we're gonna have to cut our own holes so what
we have to do is use kind of a pin punch from the backside so we can kind of get
through the face we use a razor blade cut a little cross where the screw goes
through and that should do it all right instead of poking a hole
through this to begin with what I'm gonna do here is I just put the screw
inside the screw hole on the back and you can see when I press down it starts
to starts to poke up the the correct spot right here so I'm going to do is
just take a little chalk and there we go now I know where the center
point is I just have a tiny little white dot it's kind of hard to see in this
light but I have a tiny little white dot so now all I have to do is plunge in the
knife
and if I pull it start to see the the hole opening up I'm gonna have to make
this just a little bit bigger so that the screw can pass through nicely
without tearing things up
this right here is the secret to having a really pretty butt pad on the end this
way the screw can go through nothing gets torn up and if everything goes
right no one will even be able to tell that this is held on by screws or where
they can find the screw holes pretty cool in preparation for inserting these
screws I've gone ahead and put a little bit of grease right over those holes
that we just cut and I'm going to put some grease around the the head of the
screw too since we just don't want to tear this thing up we want it to be as
pretty as possible all right here's the moment of truth I have pushed the screws
far up to the head and and I have some junk in to the grease on my screwdriver
anyway gonna push this in and it should just pop right over okay and look at
that nice and smooth there's a little bit of grease around where the head was
but yeah looking good now for the rear or the bottom one okay looking nice my
task from now on is to access those screws as seldom as possible every time
that I insert the screwdriver it's gonna tear things up just a little bit more so
I'll try to do as few passes as I need to but I do need to attach this to the
rifle first so I can get an idea of the shape that we're going to sand this down
the sides that we selected was medium and you can see that there's plenty of
meat around where the the stock goes so we're gonna have to mark this off we're
gonna have to make a line on on this kind of hard section of the butt pad to
show the do not cross line and we'll be able to do our coarse sanding using a
belt sander all right I'm going to use this handy dandy x-acto knife and I'm
going to trace the shape that I need to cut in this pad and this
is a very sharp knife so I need to be careful not to actually cut into the
wood
done I did Nick it a couple times but not bad I'll just be using a simple belt
sander here I removed the screws entirely I'm gonna
have to flip the work over to check my marks every so often and yeah I'll just
be using this to very quickly make that shape
here's the result this is going to get us pretty close to the final dimensions
we're going to use some sandpaper on a block to finish this off you can see
that here I did start to get into the structure of the pad here so it looks
like there's a metal lining around the edges here so I'll to do something to
kind of mask that so for those of you that are wanting to put a recoil pad on
the Boyd's Pro varmint stock the medium-size decelerator might be a bit
too big for you you might want to go for the the small size I think that can be
pretty easily fixed though we'll see how that goes I placed the ring of blue tape
around my stock to protect the finish and then I installed the butt pad so
this is ready to take down to its final level I'll be using sanding blocks to
kind of smooth this down and I'll be able to see if I start wearing into the
tape here as I get closer
the tape comes off and here's the result
just because of the thickness of the tape there's still just a tiny bit of a
hump going into the wood here so I have a choice at this point whether I want to
sand this absolutely flush with the wood and actually cut into the wood just a
little bit and then re polyurethane this or stick with really this pretty
invisible lip that I can only just feel it's up to you to decide what you want
to do at this point I opted for a nice smooth transition so what I did is I
taped off the the rubber part of the butt pad back here and that should help
keep a lot of this smearing that we're seeing off the wood and I'm going to go
ahead and make a nice perfect transition from this kind of plastic base to the
wood so that when this is done I shouldn't feel any dip I will have to
put some polyurethane again on this it's back section but the end result is going
to look really good
I put on three coats of polyurethane and time to take the tape off this thing
looks like the tape is gonna help me clean it alright there it is I still
need to fix this this gap where I started cutting into
the plate that's inside this but aside from that it's looking pretty good
you