I carved them last year. They look much more boxy in the photos than they do in person, the camera lens gave them a fish eye curved effect too.
Those bucks split into halves, I will lay the halves up in fiberglass to make molds. I'll then lay those molds up in combinations of s-glass and carbon fiber to make the shells. I'll layup the attatchment points, trigger attatchment points, bedding, etc into the stock halves similar to this bullpup design below. Most of the mushyness of my current bullpup stocks come from the trigger pushrods binding up. These will have pullrods instead, possibly bicycle spokes for adjustment, this could lead to a sloppy trigger so I'll have to keep the tolerences close on all pivot points.
Since I took these photos last year I decided to make all of the stocks the same length, 25" including recoil pads, just because the stocks look more balanced that way. The Mini and the 10-22 will be just over 26" and the others will be 31-33" long. That BAR should be one heck of a woods rifle at just over 7 lbs scoped.
The whole point is to have all of my long guns to feel the same for instinctual pointing. Every time I shoot the 10-22 or especially the 12 ga on moving targets it trains the muscles as to where the gun is pointing. It could be argued that a bullpup isnt neccessary for a hunting gun, even a woods rifle, but I decided that the defensive rifles should be bullpups so that decision made the point moot.
josh
