Gun stocks appear to be nothing more than a hunk of wood sanded smooth and nicely finished but grossly overpriced. Boyds has put a world of hurt on a lot of traditional gunsmiths and stock makers who produce quality products worthy of their relatively high price but beyond the reach of what many sportsmen are willing to spend. Quality stocks cost a lot of money because they require skilled craftsman to build, and the process is very time consuming. I said what I said because it is a subject that has been covered here many times and I believe the solution is exactly what I said. There might be an inexpensive "fix" to the "problem" that an ingenuitive mind can solve, I don't know. I meant no disrespect toward you or your opinion.īoyds gets beat up here quite a bit for this problem. I just do not understand why Boyd's makes this area so flimsy. What do you guys do, just drill it and JB weld it in place, the best you can and hope it holds?įrankly, savage could improve the action screw spacing here, but I do not see their plastic stocks breaking here ever. The other option is not make these pillars so big around. The other option is to not inlet this area at all and have the customer fit it. Personally, I would gladly pay a few more bucks for a better engineered product. Honestly, this is a design flaw that arose from cost savings attempts. It is definitely not part of the molding process.
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However, it is obvious, that Savage has a manual process to remove some material and make things fit, as demonstrated by the roughness of areas where things are removed. It looks like Boyd's is avoiding a manual process at this location, that's why they CNC this straight. I was thinking that if there is tear-rout and I can't keep the concentric circle of the hole (half moon) I might use my dremmel to push some holes in the back and anchor some JB weld in some pockets, acting as anchors.
This will leave very little material where the arrow above is pointing. I measured them and they require a 27/64 drill bit hole. Is there a problem with this? bI They are the perfect height for the Boyd's stock. It was really easy to do and I do not see a reason not to reuse them. I removed the metal pillars in my plastic stock by drifting them out. There is more material here, thus it is less prone to falling apart when drilled for pillars. The Savage plastic stock has a tapered area where the bottom metal feeder ramp goes. Please review my pictures and I will comment below them. I compared my factory Tupperware stock off my 11 trophy hunter to the Boyd's Pro Varmint.
I think there is a design flaw in the Boyd's product. I find the front pillar the most challenging. My new Pro Varmint just showed up and on inspection I found a few things I would like to share and here the ask for the group's advice regarding my interpretation of issues I think I see. I have studied a lot of responses from the generous folks here, sharing their experiences regarding the front pillar area cracking on Boyd's Pro Varmint stocks and I share everyone's concerns.
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