Being that I must be a complete idiot, I have to ask a question....
Is it possable that Magpul placed a non .mil stock into a box marked for a .mil stock?
I ordered a Magpul MOE set in Foilage Green to dress up my rifle rather than try to paint things.
The MOE stock I got was in a box maked Military style as was the invoice.... and since the .mil style is the largest of the two, I knew that it would fit too loose if my Charles Daly Defense was a civi buffer tube, or fit just right if it was a .mil spec buffer tube. I also know that my Stag is a .mil buffer tube, so if it fits loose, I just dress out the Stag first and then order the MOE parts for the CDD in non .mil next week!
So I removed the OEM CDD stock and went to put the .mil Magpul on.... and she was snug as hell to get to start! I got it started about a half inch and decided that I am not getting anywhere fighting it by hand in the kitchen here so I went down to the shop (concrete floors) and I knelt down, I then pulled the pin all the down on the MOE stock release lever and took the rifle and grenaded that son of a bitch into the concrete stock first... thinking it would go on and get past this odd tight spot. Nope. It went on another inch or so.
O.O
Now I'm starting to get:
1) Pissed off
2) Myself in trouble
So I thought I would pull it off by hand. Nope, this SOB is on there good. (Come inside my head for a second!)...... Maybe it needs to be forced all the way on and then it will loosen up and work normal, yea, that must be it.... it is a .mil stock, it said it on the box and invoice... it has to be a .mil stock! Hit it harder, get it on! So I grenaded that son of a gun 3 or 4 more times and got it all the way on... and boy, she is tight!
So after realizing that this thing is likely not going to come off without a dremel to cut it off..... I got semi serious. I grabbed a strap and tied one end to the ball on my truck and the other end I tied to the MOE stock. I jerked and yanked on this think like I was fighting for my life.... not a fraction of an inch of movement. Nothing.
This next paragraph is my minds next logical move before employing power tools to remove/destroy the MOE stock.....
So I think tonight I will use the 4,000 LB Warn winch on my Yamaha Rhino and attach the winch to the MOE and somehow secure the riffle to the truck and commence to pull with the winch. I'm going to go ahead and assume that by the time this is over, I will have at a minimum destroyed the Magpul MOE stock, maybe some part of the rifle along with it. Nothing I can do at this point but get it off some way and recover in whatever way is necesary.
Then I guess I buy another .mil MOE stock and see what I get! Next time I'll measure first, grenade things later!
Just to verify:
This is unusual right? I have never removed and replaced a stock...
I take it that I could have gotten a civilian spec stock in a .mil spec box and forced the civi stock onto a mil spec buffer tube. Would that be tighter than all get out? Because this is tighter than hell!
Should I video using the winch to somehow pull the stock off of the buffer tube? I may as well have fun with this now, I have completely hosed up at this point.
Picture of the great looking MOE set up... with the permanently attached MOE stock...LOL!
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