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Old 12-30-2014, 06:24 AM
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Moosehuntersupreme
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I have used a couple of Boyds stocks & was very pleased with the end result. They were both with hi-powers, but I imagine results would be much the same. The inletting was OK, but both had to be glass bedded before any kind of accuracy could be achieved. YRMV
1 was my dad's .06 Rem 725. He was 4" shorter then me & even though I had fitted an extension to the butt, it just wasn't comfortable to shoot & of course, accuracy suffered. After re-stocking, I was amazed at how much more comfortable to shoot & accurate it had become. The other was my son's Savage 280 Rem mag with a plastic stock & crappy accuracy. Again, groups tightened right up to what the barrel was capable of.
Both stocks were thumbholes, which we both found we really liked, but that is a matter of taste. In fact, I liked mine so much that 3 new builds I have done are traditional MLs, 2 are flint locks, all have built-from-a plank thumbholes.
Paul
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