A dream chassis design Your opinions

[ISS]

ElrLvr,

what is the monster top stock?

 

[Alex Wheeler]

This could be a good time to mention a few misconceptions people have with stock design. Often you see really low profile stocks described as low center of gravity. Well, its the opposite. If you take a rifle and reduce the height of the stock the make the barreled action sit lower, you have moved the mass of the rifle up, raising the rifles center of gravity, not lowering it. To lower the c/g of a rifle you need to move mass lower. The relationship to the front bag has nothing to do with the rifles center of gravity which is only relative to the rifle itself. Another is length of the forend. Longer forends (so long as you move the front bag forward) shift weight to the rear. Moving weight on the rear bag can help tracking. But at the expense of torque control. The front bag controls torqueing, so the more weight you take off the front, the less it has control of. Its a trade off. In lighter cartridges without much torque you may find longer is better while larger cartridges may be better off a little shorter.

 

[moondog]

I tried about couple of Chassis, MDT, Eliseo and while the shot well, I couldn't get past the "twang". I was super impressed with Micarta stocks from Foundation. Although not for benchrest, I wouldn't write one off.