How to Reinforce a Wooden Rifle Stock Wrist

Once again we bring you “the Mister Rogers of gunsmithing,” Larry Potterfield of MidwayUSA as he demonstrates how you can reinforce the wrist area of a wooden rifle stock.

The wrist is the area just behind the receiver, which you grasp while aiming the rifle. Because it’s the slimmest portion of the stock, it’s also the most likely to break. And on many rifles, it has no reinforcement.

The repair is simple and straightforward — heck, the video is not even two minutes long.

Supplies needed:

1/4″ allthread rod about 4.5″ long
Drill with extra-long drill bit a tad larger diameter than the rod
Epoxy

All you do is drill a long hole into the stock from the receiver cutout, through the center of the wrist. Mix the epoxy and cram some into the hole you just drilled as well as coating the allthread rod with it.

Shove it all down into the hole and remove most of the excess epoxy, leaving a little on top of the hole. You may need to push the rod back down if the compressed air inside the hole pushes it back up out of the hole.

Allow to cure and clean up the cured epoxy. Done!

That was easy.

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.