I like pretty wood!
- Thread starter Jevyod
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TINCANBANDIT
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Very Nice!
LineStretcher
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I love wood stocks too. They're getting hard to find on a new rifle and when you do, the quality of the wood is just not up to par. I've posted in other threads regarding my 1960 Weatherby Mark V 257 WM. I have an end mill and lathe so I decided to free float it and pillar bed it. That all went very well and the stock turned out amazingly beautiful but the LOP was too short and I was having a hard time getting a quick cheek weld.
I went to Boyd's Gunstocks and ordered one of their XX Claro walnut Platinum stocks with all the trimmings. That stock arrived yesterday and if fit like a glove. I'm going to shoot it and then see if it requires bedding or not, I sort of doubt it will. The original Weatherby stock is in the lower right of the image.
I went to Boyd's Gunstocks and ordered one of their XX Claro walnut Platinum stocks with all the trimmings. That stock arrived yesterday and if fit like a glove. I'm going to shoot it and then see if it requires bedding or not, I sort of doubt it will. The original Weatherby stock is in the lower right of the image.
While not true wood, I have built some good looking rifles on Savage actions with the Laminated stocks from Boyds.
Not nearly the panache of a good wood stock but far better looking than Tupperware and glass (not to mention just as stable)
I have not put other than Savage in a Boyds but the fit is outstanding, very little tang relief and it fit like a glove, did not bother to bed the two I did (a third on an EABCO stock of the same type defily needed to be bedded)
Not nearly the panache of a good wood stock but far better looking than Tupperware and glass (not to mention just as stable)
I have not put other than Savage in a Boyds but the fit is outstanding, very little tang relief and it fit like a glove, did not bother to bed the two I did (a third on an EABCO stock of the same type defily needed to be bedded)