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I have a rifle which one of the screws in the butt plate will not remain in place. Upon inspection, I noticed some of the wood from the stock coming out with the screw. Now, it appears that hole is...

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Drill out the hole to a larger diameter, an inch and a half or so deep. Glue in a dowell, allow to dry throughly and cut off flush with the stock. Mark it through the kole in the butt plate and drill...

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ORYou might try filling the hole with epoxy. It's strong stuff. Then center and drill a pilot hole, reinsert the screw.I have pondered waxing the screw, filling the hole with epoxy and inserting the...

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The easiest "non arsenal" type repair, just to get something functional, is to drive one of those plastic anchors in the hole then re-insert the screw.Moskov' Dasvidanyawww.militaryrifles.info

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A "round" wooden toothpick works great too. Break the toothpick so it fits all the way in the hole, then put a couple little drops of wood glue on it so it stays in the hole. I like the pointed end of...

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I use a nail.

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Thanks for all of your help, guys! I ended up drilling out the hole and inserting a plastic anchor in it. It was a little too tight, so I slowly ran the drill bit through the anchor once, removing a...

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Speaking of that, just "how tight" was Dicks hatband?Moskov'Dasvidanyawww.militaryrifles.info

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Dick who?

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The "Dick" of the old "tight as Dick's hatband" saying, who else? I know how tight it was, don't you?Dasvidanyawww.militaryrifles.info

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....with my grandparents, since that's one of their favorite sayings. I think it was also uttered by the great John Wayne in "True Grit."The HOG

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So, no one knows how tight Dick's hat band actually was huh?Well, I do, and I'm waiting for someone to say, "no, how tight was it"?MoskoDasvidanyawww.militaryrifles.info

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I musta missed that "True Grit" scene. My favorite of the Duke is in McClintock, "Bureaucrat, I've got a @#%$ hangover. Don't push it!"

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I just ran a Google on Dick's hatband. Seems nobody knows where it came from: "Its earliest appearance in print is in the 1796 edition of Francis Groses Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.", and had many...

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It's strange sir that you should happen to ask. About 40 years ago I asked a man that was about 100 years old then, that very question, since I had heard him use the phrase many times. He said, "well...

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Awe Gees Mosko. Nothing strange about it. You been waiting in the wings for three days waiting for the question. Now, who's Dick?

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Now think about it, which Dick has a hat band with a split head? This particular Dick is sometimes aka Peter!Mosko'Dasvidanyawww.militaryrifles.info

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