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Thread: Question on SOPMOD Stock being too tight

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    Quote Originally Posted by ra2bach View Post
    I would love to find one of these elusive super tight adjustable stock and trade one of mine with you in a New York minute. Unfortunately, it's probably just going to loosen up over time like all my last ones did
    Since 2009, my only exposure to the SOPMOD have been these "bad" ones. In 5 years, I've never seen one loosen up.

    Food for thought, bro.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GTF425 View Post
    My issued SOPMOD is one of the out of spec ones. It's basically a fixed stock, which I really like. I never take it off or have any intention of changing it unless Uncle Sugar decides to issue me a different stock.

    All of ours at work are out of spec. You just need to use your man hands to get it on the receiver extension. Making adjustments isn't impossible, it just (once again) requires man hands.

    Don't do anything stupid like sell it. Either mount it as is or, if you can't, sand it like jaxman says.
    what you said has been my experience with it so far also and I am definitely keeping it. It wasn't that hard to get on but it was difficult to move it but with some force it did move forward its just harder to move it backwards. For me its not acceptable so I started sanding it and I can already see some progress, sanding is going to fix it just fine, thanks buddy!

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    Good deal. That's the beauty of plastic: you can basically do anything you want to it.

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    Personally, I would prefer all my stocks this way to where I have to fit them. Would give me the perfect fit for each rifle. The "bad batch" to me was the perfect batch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CTI View Post
    " MOFO is solid as hell"
    at least theres one positive with the stock! ha!!!, it certainly doesn't need any Magpul friction lock on these puppies
    Yep. I don't mind a solid fit. If it were my main go to gun, I might sand it a little to where it was moveable by one guy.
    "You people have too much time on your hands." - scottryan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roadblock View Post
    B5 produced them using the specs provided by the military and the specs sheet was wrong if I remember correctly. The stocks were suppose to be destroyed.
    One would think common manufacturing sense would encourage you to make a prototype and try it on four or five different mil-spec tubes before mass producing a few thousand of them blindly.

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    I have one of the above mentioned stocks. As stated, it is a bear to use. One on it is solid which I like. However, I am running into a different set of problems.

    1. To install the stock I am having to remove the pin from the adjustment screw so that I can tighten the adjustment latch. This is necessary because without doing so, the pin will not move enough to clear the buffer tube.

    2. Now that I have the stock on I need to put the adjustment screw back in place. To get the pin back in, the adjustment nut has to be loosened so much that the handle just flops around.

    Help

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    Not all RE are made equal either. I have 4 Vltor A5 REs and with a new minimalist stock - on one it was practically impossible to move, one it is perfect, and the other 2 it was very tight. It is tight on the M&P15-22 plastic RE. So there is variation even on a Vltor tube.

    I had a LMT Gen 2 SOPMOD that was tight but movable on the same A5 RE that the minimalist is almost impossible to move.

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