08-03-2017, 05:00 PM
(08-03-2017, 08:18 AM)TomG Wrote: The stock on your Savage looks mighty fine to me. I like the rolled over comb. It also has some Tiger stripe patterns similar to the blanks I found.
Actually that's not the Savage, Tom, the Savage is the one that I stocked and am too embarrassed to show on the same thread as your work !
The builder of that .300 Mag went to insanely picky lengths. For example, it was meant to be a target rifle and he wanted match bullets to just touch the lands of the rifling but the Mauser magazine design wouldn't permit the extra length of the cartridge. After cutting off the front of the magazine well, he attached (silver soldered ?) a short half section of a scrapped shotgun barrel to it, which not only lengthened the magazine but gives a pleasing appearance.
He milled a shallow hole in the end of the bolt and inset a disc cut from the stock blank. This guy was the Quality Assurance Manager at a company for which we both were employed, so his nit-pickishness didn't surprise me. I also bought a .22-250 from him, on a large ring Mauser action. It was a beauty but I could never make it shoot, even with a new Douglas barrel. A friend swore that he could tame it and I'm told that he still owns it forty years later so presumably he succeeded.
I've heard that many fine competition shooters go through the process you propose, first with the try stock and then having their gun(s) permanently stocked to the final adjusted dimensions. Sounds like mucho dinero but then they don't have your skill, patience and craftsmanship so $$$ must substitute for those qualities
Cheers and thanks for sharing your ideas and implentation of them !
randyc