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I ended up making some of these today.
This one is for an Accuracy International and gives better tracking across the rear bag and saves 'AI thumb' That painful condition that develops as the day goes on, you forget what you are doing and move your left hand to the front of the back bag, only to get it smacked by the dropped section behind the palm swell of an AI stock. This one weighs in at 135 grams however I have got them down to 99 grams in the past.

That looks really good - even though I dont know what it is! (Please forgive my ignorance)

If you have a rifle with a sporting style stock or a stock that tapers torwards the trigger and decide to use a rear bag to support the rifle the muzzle will tend to rise as the rifle moves back under recoil. Sandwich one of these between the butt pad and the butt and you now have something parallel to the barrel for the rifle to slide back on, the improved tracking can help with accuracy.

mmm i could do with one of these dave for my mcmillan stocked .284 , i wonder if the rear pad can be removed

That looks very nice: are you thinking you might churn them out for a "modest" price? I wouldn't mind trying something like that on my Tikka 6BR.

This one is for an Accuracy International and gives better tracking across the rear bag and saves 'AI thumb' That painful condition that develops as the day goes on, you forget what you are doing and move your left hand to the front of the back bag, only to get it smacked by the dropped section behind the palm swell of an AI stock. This one weighs in at 135 grams however I have got them down to 99 grams in the past.

First time I shot my AI stock I discovered AI THUMB

Ordered one from Ovenpaa got great piece of kit :cheers:

tikkathreebarrels wrote:That looks very nice: are you thinking you might churn them out for a "modest" price? I wouldn't mind trying something like that on my Tikka 6BR.

They make a huge difference to tracking along the rear bag however they are very labour intensive. I have built the fixtures now to make machining the lightening cuts a bit quicker but I still have to cut the blanks from bar stock by hand, rough grind them, mark them out and bolt them into the fixture, make the necessary lightening cuts then finish grind to profile, draw file work up with wet and dry and then hand polish. Then......... Machine the rider itself, face and tap one end and bore the other end to loose the weight and finally polish by hand as well, a stainless M8 holds it all together.

Yes I could always get them cut with water jet however the problem then is holding ten of each for what I think are the common rifles and hoping someone buys them.... It is not a risk I want to take.

ovenpaa wrote:

tikkathreebarrels wrote:That looks very nice: are you thinking you might churn them out for a "modest" price? I wouldn't mind trying something like that on my Tikka 6BR.

They make a huge difference to tracking along the rear bag however they are very labour intensive. I have built the fixtures now to make machining the lightening cuts a bit quicker but I still have to cut the blanks from bar stock by hand, rough grind them, mark them out and bolt them into the fixture, make the necessary lightening cuts then finish grind to profile, draw file work up with wet and dry and then hand polish. Then......... Machine the rider itself, face and tap one end and bore the other end to loose the weight and finally polish by hand as well, a stainless M8 holds it all together.

Yes I could always get them cut with water jet however the problem then is holding ten of each for what I think are the common rifles and hoping someone buys them.... It is not a risk I want to take.

Haha! I get the picture. Whilst walking the dog which is when I do my first "morning thinking" I've remembered that the Supersporter stock on the 6BR has a slim, asymmetrical kinda crescent-shaped buttplate. Needs thinking about.

Shape is not a problem, either make a template and post it over or send me the butt pad itself and I will make a template and return the pad, the rider would follow later. Time it right and it would not miss any shooting.

Thanks for the explanation Ovenpaa