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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	A cheek-piece solution? Jun 6^th, 2020 at 5:39pm	Print Post
	I have a "scoped" Krag carbine that I never play with, because, "it is a pain in the neck". It should be a great rifle for load development, because: it is quite accurate, has a minty bore, and the scope would help minimize sight-picture variables. The problem is the absence of 'cheek-weld', (due to low comb and high/off-set mount). With my head up in the air, neck strain quickly destroys consistency. I tried a replica M1 leather 'lace-on' cheek pad once, but, it didn't fit stock contours and slipped around. A "Beartooth" slip-on kit arrived today. This $20 Ebay find doesn't look too bad and there's different inserts to allow adjustment of height. (I overlapped two medium foam pads and cheek-weld seems good. The 'stretchy-cloth' over neoprene design seems to stay in place). I will up-date with Range experience, soon.
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carbon outlaw KCA Forum Member Offline carbon outlaw Posts: 209 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2014	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #1 - Jun 7^th, 2020 at 6:44pm	Print Post
	I was making a cheek rest last week haven't tried it yet but have a look ...


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #2 - Jun 7^th, 2020 at 7:04pm	Print Post
	Very interesting and fancy! How are those coins fixed into the leather? I hope they are fastened well so they don't pop out during recoil. Never seen anything like this before. Thanks for posting.


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carbon outlaw KCA Forum Member Offline carbon outlaw Posts: 209 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2014	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #3 - Jun 7^th, 2020 at 7:20pm	Print Post
	I purchase coins that only have one good side very cheep and solder them onto a thin sheet of brass drill holes and sandwich them onto the leather ... very secure that way ...


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #4 - Jun 7^th, 2020 at 7:51pm	Print Post
	Nice Leather-Work! I needed to build up more comb height and am a minimalist in terms of decoration.


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #5 - Jun 7^th, 2020 at 10:07pm	Print Post
	Very nice approach to securing the coins. I'm mainly a US coin collector but yours has great appeal with those pieces.


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carbon outlaw KCA Forum Member Offline carbon outlaw Posts: 209 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2014	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #6 - Jun 8^th, 2020 at 6:34pm	Print Post
	I was making a cheek rest to go with a ammo belt i made ... have a look ...


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #7 - Jun 8^th, 2020 at 7:11pm	Print Post
	That looks more like a money belt with some ammo instead of an ammo belt with some money!


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #8 - Jun 8^th, 2020 at 11:13pm	Print Post
	The KCA 'Fashion Show':


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Cat Man KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 102 Joined: Jan 20^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #9 - Jun 9^th, 2020 at 2:50am	Print Post
	I had the same issue with shooting my Remington 513T .22 match rifle with a High mounted vintage scope. Put the stretch over "Beartooth" pad system on. It made a world of difference. They are a bit tricky to install. Not vintage but it put points on the target scores. I tried the M1 Garand leather pad first also. No modifications to an original rifle can't be bad.


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Dick Hosmer KCA Official Member Offline Collector of Springfield Arms, 1865-1915 Posts: 1862 Location: Northern California Joined: Nov 20^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #10 - Jun 9^th, 2020 at 2:49pm	Print Post
	I'm speechless - all that is missing is the fur coat and pink Cadillac!


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FredC KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 759 Location: Dewees, Texas Joined: May 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #11 - Jun 9^th, 2020 at 6:35pm	Print Post
	BR, Is splicing some wood onto the stock out of the question? In the past we have seen some examples here on KCA. Most all were going to undo the "damage" even though a couple seemed to be well done. I have lived with my dad's 1917 Enfield so long that it looks good to me and is fast on lining up the scope, so the idea of spliced in wood does not bother me. Then there is always custom stock with a cheek piece. Rubber recoil pad is kind of handy so you can lean it against things without it sliding and falling. Maybe I will post photos of the 2 Enfields one of these days.


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #12 - Jun 10^th, 2020 at 4:16am	Print Post
	FredC - People are free to do what they want to their property. I did not want to permanently change a Krag stock. I was looking for a pratical, simple, quick, inexpensive, and non-permanent solution, to meet a shooting need. The 'Beartooth' slip-on appears that it will work for me and it is reversible.


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Cat Man KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 102 Joined: Jan 20^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #13 - Jun 10^th, 2020 at 7:35pm	Print Post
	As a kid on my first trip to the matches at Camp Perry in the mid 1970's with a straight prone stock Winchester Model 70 I could not hit anything. A couple old timers helped me out on the firing line by quickly fashioning a cheek piece from layers of cardboard cut from a C ration box and attached it to the stock with GI green 100 MPH tape. I learned that this is called a "Field Expedient" modification. It worked and I won a medal!


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FredC KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 759 Location: Dewees, Texas Joined: May 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: A cheek-piece solution? Reply #14 - Jun 10^th, 2020 at 8:25pm	Print Post
	butlersrangers wrote on Jun 10^th, 2020 at 4:16am: FredC - People are free to do what they want to their property. I did not want to permanently change a Krag stock. I was looking for a pratical, simple, quick, inexpensive, and non-permanent solution, to meet a shooting need. The 'Beartooth' slip-on appears that it will work for me and it is reversible. OK, since you are a minimalist I am going to assume this is not you with your new rifle.


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