Way dumb question: Cricket stock removal
I want to remove the stock in order to adjust the trigger. I removed the bolt in the forestock but the stock would not budge. There is a bolt in the pistol grip and I began loosening that but got a bad feeling so I am walking away until someone is kind enough to give me some guidance. This is how it always starts with me then the next thing I know is I’m sending it in for repair
🙄 :confusedn:
Thanks for any help…
KP
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Hey Chad thanks also,,,,,, ,,,,, , I just got my Cricket/Edgun reg tester from Dman1114.
I can’t wait to try it but can’t until my Omega SC comes in on Wednesday, yee hee !
I don’t think you need one but just to see how nice of a spanking job he does, here it is.
~ GKU
BRO I am so jealous right now!
Your welcome Awny !!
Hey Chad thanks also,,,,,, ,,,,, , I just got my Cricket/Edgun reg tester from Dman1114.
I can’t wait to try it but can’t until my Omega SC comes in on Wednesday, yee hee !
I don’t think you need one but just to see how nice of a spanking job he does, here it is.
~ GKU
i agree with everyone also you have been nothing but help for me! I am a person that likes to do things on my own, so I want to know how and why because then I can usually tweak it to better suit me! so thank you GKU. :biggrinn:
Greg,
I always enjoyed your writings and learnt a lot from it and from your depth of knowledge and patience in explaining.
Sometimes its too sophisticated for me so I ask and you generously answer. I highly appreciate it man!
dang guys,
When I was writing the reply post above at mid point I noticed the date.
It’s been 30 years to the day since her passing ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,, ,,,, , , and it still feels like yesterday.
Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it !
I’ve lost a lot on that day and shows ya that life is so delicate and shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Love your love ones my friends !
~ ATVB ~ GKU p.s. back to Airguns ! 
Sad story Greg. I enjoy reading your reply’s so if it helps you with your writing, continue on and type away………..
Wow Greg…I’ve been in two very bad accidents which also involved a drunk driver (in one) and I managed to walk away relatively unscathed. My car in both accidents were totaled ..I was lucky…glad you were able to survive your accident and recover…sorry for your loss though. And thanks for all your help and knowledgeable input.
KP
The Cricket is not a free floater, maybe the most con it has or the only one. :biggrinn:
I emphasized the word minimize to denote that you may not be able to remove all 100% of the shifting on a Cricket.
But one can try there best to lessen the effect to a minimum.
On February 20, 2014 before starting posting on TAG Cricket forum.
I posted a POI shifting problem I had with my 22 cal on the KG forum.
Two replied to help me, Sir Ville with the frame hex screw torqueing and Octavius with the stock screw loosening. (a big THANKS guys !!)
Here’s my post.
http://forum.kalibrgun.eu/index.php/topic,328.0.html
Also I often do like to help out anyone I can, when I can.
I often don’t know what and how much someone knows and don’t know, not that I know everything, I don’t.
I may over explain to answer a question, but feel that someone else may benefit from my long answer as well.
So, please be kind if I’m a bit redundant with my replies.
I’m not a good writer.
It’s a long story, but to make it short.
Many years ago I was in a accident involving a drunk driver.
He went through the red light and T-bone my girl friend and I at 50 mph.
I ended up going through the passenger side window and ended up halfway on his hood.
Doctors said if I weren’t a bodybuilder I wouldn’t have survived, my girl friend at the time did not. 😥
I sustained head/brain injuries and till today I have a hard time writing.
It’s like I have the definition and the meaning of a word, but have the hardest time knowing what that word is.
So, it takes me awhile to write and I edit a lot. 😉
They said that if I keep writing I’ll improve ? :rofl:
~ GKU ~ Greg
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Why do you do this? My knowledge of accurizing comes from large caliber powder burners and for those you want the most rigid stock and rigid action mating surface (aka) bedding. And with the cricket not being fully free floated already I did not think that free floating the AT would do anything and loose bolts goes against everything I know. :confusedn:
Chad first things first a high power pb and an airgun with an expanding and contracting AT need different attention. I would never shoot any powder burner with that little torque on stock screw because of the obvious effects of the heavy recoil. The low torque screw just gives the AT and the stock a little breathing room. That’s all. I guess it’s a poor man’s was of glass bedding the whole thing and whatever goes with it. Didn’t want to confuse anyone.
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I was not able to get to the range this weekend 🙁 . But next weekend I will have the results!
Hey, don’t do to many changes at the same time. 😯
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
So, how’s the accuracy after that reg tweak that you did, any better ?
~ GKU
Awesome! Thank you GKU. Now on to accurizing
Kind of like, out with the old and in with the new.
There is a lot of controversy over glass bedding and free floating systems.
But everyone can choose what is best for themselves from there experience and whatever, even you.
Just trying to help others who ask and owners of the Cricket with what has been working the best for my friends and I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-floating_barrel
~ GKU
So do you bed your rifles or have you tried it? Also what portions of the stock do you free float? Also whats the idea of having loose securing screws?
In my powder burning days I’ve bed my 308 Ruger it help a bit, but don’t know how it would have performed free floating.
Back then not to much info like now days.
On most Crickets the only 3 places that the action make contact is under the foregrip, below the frame length and the receiver area.
There is a portion between the frame and receiver that looks like it make contact with the AT, but on the ones I’ve work on did not touch.
After free floating the AT the only contact the stock has is with the bottom flat portion of the frame length.
Loosening the stock screw will help minimize any unforeseen lightly contact points if any.
Like I said above, try and shoot and loosen the stock screw if it has an effect on your POI.
If not, then free floating the AT may not be needed for your gun.
~ GKU
Kind of like, out with the old and in with the new.
There is a lot of controversy over glass bedding and free floating systems.
But everyone can choose what is best for themselves from there experience and whatever, even you.
Just trying to help others who ask and owners of the Cricket with what has been working the best for my friends and I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-floating_barrel
~ GKU
So do you bed your rifles or have you tried it? Also what portions of the stock do you free float? Also whats the idea of having loose securing screws?
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Greg nice device. 🙂 I´m curious how right is set your reg now 🙂