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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Accessories » Butt Hook For The Slavia    View previous topic :: View next topic  Butt Hook For The Slavia   Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:07 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA About a year ago Alstone and I were going back and forth about adjustable butts with hooks: http://www.airgunhome.com/agforum/viewtopic.php?p=37564&highlight=hook#37564 After shooting the Mendoza for a few months I came to really like the hook. It wouldn't do for thrashing about in the brush, but for the kind of shooting I do it's great. I decided that my Slavia 631 needed one, and also that it needed a little more reach between the butt and trigger. A trip to the county recycling center to scrounge a bicycle brake lever also yielded a piece of "T-slot" rail that was the perfect spacer: _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:51 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6908 Location: "Out There" Reviewed the other thread, but I am still not clear on the purpose of the hook. The spacing, OK, but is the hook intended to add some form of underarm support- and if so, to what end? _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:28 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA With the forward hand positioned behind the center of mass, the front of the gun wants to drop (and the butt raise). The hook catches under your shoulder, keeping the butt located in that muscular "pocket" with minimum pressure. You can completely control the gun with just the forward hand and (other) shoulder, leaving the trigger finger, hand, and arm independent to do nothing but control trigger release. You don't really even feel the hook, and that light "artillery hold" is a breeze. Like I said, for Kanyon out stalking wiley NZ bunnies it would get in the way. For massacreeing cans or killing paper circles it works great. It's not a new idea: Nor is it limited to firearms: _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:30 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Did the same thing to my G1. Now the guns I use the most are all set up similarly: _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:08 am DRIFTER75 New Member Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 10 Location: OHIO That is a nice an easy way of bringing an old idea to use again,I'm going to have to use it or improve on it some.Hmmmm wonder what else can be made to work?Great thinking on that Slavia.   Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:43 am Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Quote: what else can be made to work? I went with the bicycle brake levers because they are plentiful. The county recycling center always has older style bicycles with the dropped handlebars (these are the so-called "safety" levers). A motorcycle lever from a junkyard would be more massive, and would have a natural curve. Have a look at the link posted above. Alston's solution is a bit more elegant than mine. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego! hook?   Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:46 pm donwalk Veteran Member Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 247 Location: republik of kaliphornia this is what i made for my Airforce Talon _________________ never squat while wearing spurs...will rogers   Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:36 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA I like it. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:30 pm oddtodd Silver Status Member Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2029 Location: Richmond, IN USA _________________ Airguns: Two starlings talking "Larry, did you hear that? Larry?? LARRY!!!!"   Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:11 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2442 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia Most excellent. _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person. 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