"Pinning" adjustable stock, going featureless...

[coy80176]

checking in, thanks in advance/appreciate your input:

-replacing flash hider with a muzzle break, check.
-EM Hammerhead on it's way, check.
-pinning adjustable stock so that it's no longer adjustable, checking...

Do you guys drill your adjustable stock and use a roll pin, screw, other?

If I use a screw, should I dremmel the head of the screw off so that it's more "permanent?"

[Blade Gunner]

If you have a pistol grip, it doesn't matter. It only takes one "evil feature". Good luck explaining the difference to a Leo or a judge between a flash hinder and a muzzle break.

[Munky]

If you have a pistol grip, it doesn't matter. It only takes one "evil feature".

I believe he said Hammerhead...

[coy80176]

^^^that is pretty much it, right there!

Thanks for the pic, Munky.

My soon to be featureless AR will be set up the same way, however, my adjustable stock will be pinned. What I am hung up on is if I use a screw, rather than a roll pin, is it any less permanent (the stock would no longer be adjustable with a screw holding the adjustment lever in place).

[hermosabeach]

Have you read the Book- unintended consequences....

Pinning a fixed where the pin can not be broken is a challenge...


Do any of your buddies weld??? Can they add a Tig weld on the outside of the aluminum tube?

[Cokebottle]

If I use a screw, should I dremmel the head of the screw off so that it's more "permanent?"

Permanence is not required, only that it be "permanent enough" that it not be "accidentally" lost between the side of the road where you were stopped and when it is booked into evidence.

That only applies to magazine blocking, and a muzzle device attached to a barrel to bring it to 16" for NFA laws.

[coy80176]

Sage advice...

Permanence is not required, only that it be "permanent enough" that it not be "accidentally" lost between the side of the road where you were stopped and when it is booked into evidence.

That only applies to magazine blocking, and a muzzle device attached to a barrel to bring it to 16" for NFA laws.

That's the exact situation that the pinning has to pass.... great visual, CB!

[coy80176]

its on the list...

Have you read the Book- unintended consequences....

Pinning a fixed where the pin can not be broken is a challenge...


Do any of your buddies weld??? Can they add a Tig weld on the outside of the aluminum tube?

Maybe for another project.... I do want a welding set up added to my garage/shop options. Haven;t done much of it since jr high metal shop.

[SoCal Gunner]

Could you pin it through the "selectable" holes? Or even alter the stock mechanism so it won't engage the detent? Or put a longer detent in so it doesn't pull out?
Reason I ask is I actually had a stock malfunction and I couldn't adjust mine no matter what I did!

[bohoki]

you can use a triggerguard roll pin drill the lower track 1/8 inch hole

[Cokebottle]

I'm thinking drill the release "trigger" so it can't be pulled out to free the stock and pin with a roll pin, perhaps two, one in front of and behind the stud so it can't be "rocked" either way.

A roll pin can be easily punched out for maintenance (or temporary use in a free state) but not so obvious to "fall out" into the trunk of a patrol car.

[coy80176]

Thanks all ^^^

I appreciate the responses... will keep you posted once monster man lands and pin goes to stock.

[Mitch]

I pinned a stock by drilling a couple holes through the stock and the keel of the receiver extension and bolting it all together with screws and nuts. I removed the adjustment pin and lever so there was no possibility of adjustment. Doesn't look great, but it works and it can't be adjusted.

[FeuerFrei]

I used a cap screw and drilled through the adjust lever. Lever no worky.
It's backwards compatible with free state shooting via the use of an allen wrench that I keep in an on board compartment on the stock.
All my AR clones are featureless.

[NorCalFocus]

Is going to the magpul fixed carbine stock not an option?

https://www.magpul.com/products/moe-fixed-carbine-stock-mil-spec