Modifications A little arca rail install on a friends JTS Airacuda Max .22

[CTAirgunner]

I am a big fan of mounting pic and arca rails "properly" imo. So I will show you how I did it on my buddies rifle on Sunday evening.

Also these rifles aren't bad for the money, that's a 35 yard 10 shot group.

 

[Soren Drost]

Looking real good

 

[CTAirgunner]

Looking real good

Thank you sir!

 

[wolfmangreg]

Nice work, looks rock solid for sure!

 

[CTAirgunner]

Thanks @wolfmangreg , it sure is solid. I am a big fan of the Tnuts but even bigger fan of the slotted spacers for the rail itself keeping it a bit away from the stock.

 

[Woogie_man]

Nice and clean man!

It is always nerve wracking to put tools to a new stock. This is why prep work and making a plan is always a good idea. Messing up a nice stock is the last think you want to do.

 

[Chris two-furs]

Speaking of stocks, how would you repair a split shoulder stock for a P Rod. It is a Tom West design; looked vulnerable from the first moment I bought it. This is model with no connection to end of breech on top. This sucker split in 1/2 when I was installing it to fit my P Rod.

 

[Woogie_man]

Pictures??

 

[Blackpaw_airgunner]

What rail kit is it? Looks very nice

 

[Ezana4CE]

@CTAirgunner I think doing that might freak me out. Does it feel as if the installation on the forestock is stressing the wood when placing it on the ball head?

 

[CTAirgunner]

@CTAirgunner I think doing that might freak me out. Does it feel as if the installation on the forestock is stressing the wood when placing it on the ball head?

If you look pretty close at how it's designed it's not a bother at all. The Tnuts have metal that goes almost through all the wood on the stock and then comes very close to butting up against those metal slotted spacers. So there's virtually no side load from the screw and there's a lot of surface area from both the nuts and the spacers.

Owner has been using it with no issue , I really hope an issue doesn't arise!

In the end the owner was the one who asked, I had done it previously on taipan stocks, those have a ton more meat and less leverage at that point though.