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Best way to give a long, heavy-barreled rifle good balance?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 1133315" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>Mix a bunch of lead shot (smaller shot may be heavier per cubic inch of it) with epoxy, drill a hole in the buttstock, pour that stuff in and let it harden.</p><p></p><p>That's how people added weight to the back end of heavy barreled M1 and M14 match rifles to get a better balance. One guy used pulled 7.62 NATO M80 bullets epoxied into his drilled out M1A buttstock.</p><p></p><p>Some people even put an inch or more of that lead-epoxy mixture in the bottom of M14 20-round magazines for added weight at their balance point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 1133315, member: 5302"] Mix a bunch of lead shot (smaller shot may be heavier per cubic inch of it) with epoxy, drill a hole in the buttstock, pour that stuff in and let it harden. That's how people added weight to the back end of heavy barreled M1 and M14 match rifles to get a better balance. One guy used pulled 7.62 NATO M80 bullets epoxied into his drilled out M1A buttstock. Some people even put an inch or more of that lead-epoxy mixture in the bottom of M14 20-round magazines for added weight at their balance point. [/QUOTE]
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