10/22 Compact stock - can the channel go .920?

[tacotime]

Just wondering if anyone has opened up the barrel channel on one of the 10/22 compact model stocks to take a .920 barrel?

Those stocks are small. But maybe since the forearm doesn't really support the barrel, the opened channel might be okay, especially with one of the laminated stocks?

Thanks.

 

[blume357]

Might fit.... but the modification, if needed, is easy.... all you do is take a 1" wood dowel and wrap it with some sand paper and work the front section of the foregrip down a bit.... it is not really that hard to do and you really don't have to sand down that much

 

[tacotime]

That will be my plan, thanks!

 

[blume357]

If you look at how a factory barrel is tapered only the front 3rd or so of the fore grip needs to be sanded.... even though a 10/22 barrel can be free floating, I personally like a band on the front. What I used when converting to a .920 barrel, and it's not as tacky looking as it sounds, is a black nylon wire tie.

 

[Ol'Freak]

I’ve opened the barrel channel of a hardwood Compact stock for a 17” GM Heavy Taper. I backed sandpaper wrapping it around an old otherwise worthless standard carbine barrel which along with varying diameter with the number of layers helped a bunch in matching up the contours of the channel and new barrel. A straight .920” barrel could be accommodated but the wood running along beside the barrel gonna be thin.