Adjustable length-of-pull stock for little people

[1845greyhounds]

I recently introduced my 4 and 6 year old daughters to shooting with an ultra-low powered BB gun. They both enjoyed their 1st experience and my 6 yr old announced shooting was her new favorite thing! Any way, the butt-to-trigger distance on the stock BB gun stock is about 14 inches. Even though both my daughter's are very tall for their ages, their length-of-pull distances are only about 6.5 - 7.5 inches. To start them shooting, I had them put the stock over the top/outside of their shoulder. Not ideal, but it was the only way I could teach shooting with an erect head.

When we came home, I made this semi-adjustable stock to fit both kids. I designed this stock for very quick l-o-p adjustments as the kids take turns shooting. It uses stackable stock length sections. Each section keys into the adjoining section with a pair of dowel pins and is held firmly together with strong magnets.

The stock isn't pretty, but my kids can fix that with some Disney stickers and magic markers.

*** stock pics in next post***

[1845greyhounds]

Here's the original stock (detached) and my custom stock.


Here's an image of the stackable stock sections.

[fast ronnie]

Looks like a pretty slick setup to me.

[MrWolf]

Looks like it will work perfectly to get them shooting and setup properly. Nice job.

[seagiant]

Hi,
Good for you!

You can always buy another stock if needed!

When I was a farm boy in GA, every 8 year old had a Daisy BB gun!

[Mk42gunner]

Pretty slick idea, using magnets to hold the extra blocks on. As the girls grow, I can see you gluing or screwing the sections that always stay on in place until they use the standard stock.

Robert

[Wolfer]

This is an excellent post. My youngest grandkids are 3 and 5 We don't have a BB gun yet. Mostly they shoot the cricket with CB caps.
I won't do that with the walnut stock on the cricket but I might make another stock from a pine 2x6 and do that to it.

[44man]

Had to do that for Carol and guess on what? Browning superposed 20 ga. I can switch for me or her.

[1845greyhounds]

I'm glad you guys like the idea. I hope you'll can use this concept to introduce more people to the shooting sports with properly fitting equipment. If you fit a rifle (firearm, not air guns), make sure your new stock conforms to BATFE regulations. BATFE defines a non-NFA rifle as having a barrel length of 16 inches or more, AND an overall length of 26 inches or greater.

Wolfer, this stock started life as a pine 2x6... I couldn't bring myself to chop-up the original factory stock.

44man, did you do something similar? Will you post some pictures?

[44man]

I used a full recoil pad for me and a rifle pad for her but I have done the wood thing for the girls like you did. I used pins to align the wood pieces. They have the guns so I have no pictures.
I still had to cut and fit the Browning for pads.
I found another problem with the superposed, had a trap stock so it shot so high we could not hit a bird. I took a file to the comb---OH HORRORS! But it hits now. Can't tell by looking at it either.
But the gun was only $310 back then. I fixed what was wrong.
You did very good and made nice cuts. Good for you.