Hi Folks,
Thank you for all the suggestions and comments. I appreciate it.
This is a follow up to my problem of fitting my Ruger American Predator Rifle to a Boyd’s stock.
It is hard to put a square peg into a smaller round hole. So, I decided to break out my triangle and rat tail files and to carefully remove small amounts of wood from the half circular hole in the trigger inlet area and to eventually turn it into a rectangular hole. I wanted to keep as much wood as possible. So, I tested the fit of the trigger housing after each incremental wood reduction. I was pretty sure that the amount of wood to be removed would be much less than suggested by the comparable area of the original stock. I thought I would probably need to remove some wood from the left side of the trigger inlet area so the safety tang’s connection rod and mechanism would move freely, and maybe even a tiny bit of wood at the front to allow for the trigger tension screw.
I have uploaded a few photos to Google. The link to these pictures follows:
https://goo.gl/photos/smjj2Exv7ZwiyZMb7
Thank you,
Ron