Loose sling stud

[WDE91]

It is looking like I might be buying a Tikka T3 in 7mm-08 but Ive noticed a little issue.

The rear sling stud is loose and will rotate a bit.
I am thinking of removing it and filling the hole with clear epoxy and thread it back in and wiping off the excess.

Would this be a good fix to a loose sling stud?

[lewdogg21]

Yes.

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[bigbossman]

Yes. Also, you can insert wood toothpicks into the hole, snap them off flush, and then screw the swivel stud in nice and tight.

[nickel plate]

I had a similar experience with a NIB 1981 Marlin lever rifle with the white and black signature bulls eye embedded in the bottom of the stock-it fell out on my living room floor just after I brought it home.
Do this-get a hole punch or a nail of the same diameter of the threaded rear sling stud hole. Use it to punch a hole in a piece of blue masking tape, place it over the hole in the stock and then add more tape around it to insure that no wiped up epoxy will touch bare wood, also tape up the stud for the same reason.
The round hole in my Marlin was 1/4" in diameter, maybe even a bit larger so I had to really be careful of the furniture while re-bedding the bulls eye with dark JB Weld.
ADDED:
I've seen many used Marlin lever rifles where an owner has decided to screw in a lower sling stud directly into the center of the bulls eye-NO! Choose another place in the stock-Marlin never meant that to happen!

[jyo]

The toothpick soluation works just fine and is not permanent...

[postal]

First......

There are 2 kinds of threads on typical 'uncle mikes' sling studs....

1- Large wood screw type is common on the front stud- but not always...

2- Machine thread screw with a nut is common for rear with a hollow type stock.....

Is this a wood stock? plastic or or fiberglass?

If its wood, it should be a wood screw type stud.

If it's plastic or glass, it might be machine screw with nut....

The toothpick trick is for wood screw.

Epoxy or jb weld would likely fix it as well.

Better yet... toothpick AND epoxy or jb.

If its a machine screw....

You need to remove the butt pad, Tighten the nut and apply loktite or epoxy or jb to keep it from working loose again.

Overall.... I think the front stud/studs if you run harris type bipod and sling, are WAY more important than the rear.....

I wouldnt really care much if my rear swivel turned a little. As long as the front 2 are solid.

[slosurfer]

My tikka t3 light rear sling stud moves but I wouldn't call it loose. It's solid, but will twist some if the sling gets torqued. I figured it was made like that so that it doesn't get broken from getting torqued if you use the hasty sling technique when shooting. That's how I noticed that mine moves, it will pivot slightly when I use the hasty sling.

[ojisan]

I wouldnt really care much if my rear swivel turned a little. As long as the front 2 are solid.

Except if it pulls out while the rifle is hanging from the sling over your shoulder.
If this happens the rifle will most likely fall behind where you can't catch it and land on the scope.
The scope will break in addition to there being many new scratches on the gun, too.
You might have pulled a muscle or two as you to tried to spin around and make the catch.
You will go home angry and be short-tempered with your wife.
Then you won't get any that night or maybe the next two or three nights.
Then you'll be grumpy at work and your co-workers will talk about you in hushed tones and fall silent if you approach.
You'll think it's a conspiracy and quit your job just to show them who's boss.
At least then you will have time to fix the loose sling stud.