My Magpul comes tomorrow, so I figured I'd get the pinned stock off tonight.
Holy hell did I make a mess of my stock trying to get the pins out. I read in a few different places that people were drilling into the pin until it would "bite" and then wiggling the pin out. Took a 1/8 bit and there was no aforementioned "Bite". It just shaved away the top of the pin. Then tried a 7/64 and the bit snapped before it did anything to the pin. Went back to the 1/8 and tried to just drill the pin out the other side. It was a no-go, bit snapped again. Moved up to the next bit size but could get through the 2 broken bits.
Moved onto the SECOND pin...yes, they pinned it twice. This time I tried to drill through the pin right from the start using a fairly large bit (maybe a 3/16). I think I got through the first half of the pin, but AGAIN, snapped the bit once I hit the buffer tube. A handful of f-bombs later, I figured it might be easier to just swap the buffer tube, unless RRA decided to red loctite the castle-nut.
I don't know what the hell was going on, but I've seen people drilling through these things like butter. Now I'm weary about trying to pin the new stock once I get a new tube. Hate to pay a gunsmith for something that should be pretty simple.
/end rant


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