Thread: Is it time to leave the 27 gang?

Originally Posted by Fisherman

Its hard to imagine a Kevlar stock compressing enough to make a difference to felt recoil...the Kevlar fibres are bound by hard epoxies and have to be more rigid than the plastic/fibre reinforced Tikka synthetic stock (they are really fibre dense and that's why they are relatively rigid).
So surely its about the behaviour of a straight stock as opposed to having some drop to the butt that directs recoil upwards? (muzzle jump)
I'm genuinely interested because I'm contemplating a 270 and I'm messing around building composite stocks.

@Fisherman
The Kevlar filling the action inlet is quite soft. I was concerned that the recoil lug would in time cause it to disintegrate around that area, so bedded it as well as the normal 50mm up the barrel channel. Is it not possible that the Kevlar is absorbing shock ?. After all the recoil lug is transferring recoil to the stock via the Kevlar fill. The But of the stock is also Kevlar filled so that the recoil pad sits on and is supported by Kevlar, not just the edges of the pad.
I have always thought that it would be an interesting experiment to fill the But section of a T3 stock with Gorilla Grip glue or Ramset expanding foam - both are polyurethane - with enough to have it foam out proud of the But when cured and then trim it back to be slightly proud, say 3mm so that the recoil pad sat onto the foam and screwed down with some pressure. A cheap experiment with minimal dicking around.