State Trooper's SpecOps Review

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[James R.]

Sweet, mine showed up yesterday.



I walked over to OSH all set to buy the really long allen wrenches ($35) then decided against it. I didn't need the stock on the gun so badly that I couldn't wait to see if my socket allen wrenches or just plain old hand held L shaped ones might work. Got home, pulled off the old stock and was surprised to see all I needed was a large flat blade screwdriver, not even a long one. The bolt thru the Rem stock is like 10" long so the part you actually have to turn is almost immediately behind the recoil pad. I had a set of Bondus ball end wrenches and the 3/16" one was long enough to do the job. Put a little blue loctite on the screw and threaded it in. Grabbed the end of the allen wrench with a pair of pliers and gave it a little more love to snug it up good and it's done.

Only observations are, the safety is a little harder to get at now, but it's not terrible. Rifle is better balanced, before it was a lot more front heavy.

One of the pins that supports the spring in the grip worries me a bit though. The grip wall is a certain thickness and I'd say the pin was resting on 1/2 of that thickness. I pulled the little plate off the bottom of the grip and saw the spring that this thing is supporting is pretty massive. I was able to scoot the pin over till the circlip was resting on the inside wall which brought the face of the pin almost flush to the outside of the grip. Who knows, now it's probably not resting on as much meat on the opposite side which you can't see well due to the smaller diameter of the hole. If anything it seems that pin could stand to be a bit longer. Possibly the top and bottom pins are the same length yet the grip tapers towards the top or something? I'm not looking at it this very moment. I suppose long as it doesn't fail at this point historically then the plastic must be sufficiently strong to handle the load with it bearing only ~1/2 the meat.

Regards,

James R.