Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
Bindi, thread 12 and others. Hardwood blocks are a patch, glued in sides and rear and pegged side to side and set back 1/2" or so as shown in thread about patching fore-ends
Screws are not in line with the recoil.
Plates are not practically a larger area than normal. The drawers are the bearing surface.
Throw away unserviceable fore-end. Cheaper to fix it especially when they're coming into NZicon from overseas
Then why would they swap to copper blocks if they had alrwady tried hardwood inserts?

Im confused by the need to do this (copper blocks) if a tried procedure (hardwood inserts) already or is this one of those "not sure why" government procurement mess-up type issues