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that is one badass looking rifle... and thanks for the informative post OP. Your a great asset to this sub forum.
How did you mount the front light onto the stock or barrel?
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Well thank you, I appreciate that and am glad you found it interesting. There really doesn't seem to be too many, if any, pics out there of the internals, at least that I could find.
The stock is a modified Choate that was chopped shorter, among other things. I screwed up a coupla' times working on it, starting with ordering a stainless version instead of black.
The idea on the light was to get it as close to the barrel as possible with that stock and to make it rigid for the laser (which I've never used - red dot & light works better). The rail began as a picatinny blank that was milled down by fellow member here CS223. He Moly-Coated the metal on the stock (another Norrell product) and replaced the upper sling swivel with a Quick-Detach cup.
He also milled the block you see, matching the dimensions of the rail. The "underside" of the rail was milled to the same contour as a bull barrel. I screwed up here when I was laying it out by forgetting that suppressors are typically 1". D'OH! So it ended up a little longer than originally intended but that's fine because it's already somewhat cumbersome to hold when using those drum mags. Any shorter and it would be a real pain to get your arm hooked around them. WhistlePig was kind enough to do a custom-length 8.25" barrel for me, so it worked out OK.
Once CS was done with the block and rail, I used
Brownell's Acraglas to fill in the tip of the stock and the hole from the sling-swivel on the grip that was removed. Acraglas was also used to install a QD sling cup on the underside of the grip. And I took out the triangular-shaped block of material at the rear of the stock, sanded off the "Choate" logo from the grip, then painted everything but the metal.
Original rail blank:
The block he milled for the rail to rest on. They're bolted together.
The protruding bolt-heads were filed down.
Before the tip was filled in:
Another Choate I did for a Pocket Rifle without a rail. Acraglas Gel is great for this; it's really easy to use and easy to make it look good.
QD cup installed for a sling (a LaRue in the prior pic above).
And the final product.
The sight is an Aimpoint in a LaRue mount on a UTG rail. Rimfire Technologies bolt handle and Volquartsen mag release.