Adding weight to a rifle

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Grizzly Dave
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Adding weight to a rifle

Post by Grizzly Dave »

Hi Kirk:
I read your post in the Hunting Forum and was
very interested in how you added weight to your
45-110 utilizing a mercury tube and also channeling
a groove in the forarm for a lead insert.
Can you tell me more about the "Braco" tube -
weights available, and how and where you installed
it in the stock.
I have been reading the forums for several months
now, collecting valuable information for my future
Shiloh Sharps purchace!
I intend to use my Sharps solely for long range
shooting - it will be either a 45-90 or 45-110
with 34" heavy barrel, but I may still want additional
weight for stability & recoil dampening [also I just like
heavy target rifles!]. Would you recommend this
assuming the correct balance can be maintained?
Thanks in advance for your reply,
Dave DeJaeger
Jim Watson
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Post by Jim Watson »

I'm not Kirk, but you can get the Breako mercury filled recoil reducers from Brownell's. Also the C&H Research brand. A friend of mine put one of the C&H units in the butt of his 34" Winchester and helped the balance a good bit. Selection from the two brands will let you pick anything from 8 to 13 ounces in a 7/8" tube 3" - 5" long. Breako also makes a skinny unit to inlet into the forearm, although I don't know if there is enough wood in a Sharps for a .574" tube. I have two .22s with lead in the foreend.
Grizzly Dave
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Location: Sedalia, Co

Post by Grizzly Dave »

Thanks for the info. Jim
Dave D.
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