is a stock ok?

Rebelnerd · Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:11 pm

i was thinking of putting a wood stock on my potato gun (it's pretty small, only about 2 feet long) and was wondering how bad the recoil is on the average mini combustion gun. would it damage my shoulder?

drac · Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:19 pm

It shouldn't be a problem, but screwing the stock into the chamber or cap directly is a bad idea. Mount the gun to it with hose clamps.

boilingleadbath · Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:06 pm

It won't damage your sholder, and it shouldn't bruise your shoulder, unless you hold the stock off your shoulder when you shoot, because the maximum force is fairly low (150 lbs for a 2" barrel [combustion]). To prove that you won't damage your shoulder, "Just for fun":
Remington makes a 3 oz (nearly 90 grams) "magnum turkey load", and it shoots this at about 1500 feet/sec. A shoddy GGDT calculation indicates that the mass required to get this much recoil from your launcher, if it has a 8"*2" chamber and a 1.5"*16" barreled combustion, you'd need to fire 12 kilograms! Muzzle velocity is a trivial 12 feet/sec.

Rebelnerd · Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:38 pm

wait a sec, why would secrewing it in be bad? could it come of or something? in that case, couldn't i just seal it with superglue or something?

drac · Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:28 pm

Everytime you drill a hole in PVC, it weakens the structural integrity of the pipe, and therefore gives a place where the pipe is more prone to burst. It's been done before, it's just not exactely safe.

spudshot · Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:42 pm

also the recoil will make the holes larger, and allow gasses to escape, and after a while if the screws arent strong the heads may even come off

Rebelnerd · Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:26 pm

ok, thanks. i'll attach it some other way.