Build your own br stock

[Link]

I see a post on BR stocks for under $500 = not.

How many of you have just taken a old stock and cobbed a plate on the bottom on the forend? And how did it work? I have built a stock for my TC from a blank and it turned out fantastic.

Link

 

[watercam]

Go for it. Post pics!

 

[82boy]

Heck I built my own BR stock out of a 4x8 sheet of plywood, I bought from Menards. The guns shoots well, and tracks prefect. I won a couple of match's with it, and some money. I wanted a "Dog Tracker" style stock so I off set the forearm. Works well with the fast twist barrels used in 600 and 1000 yard Benchrest. The only problem is this that is so light, I have one heck of a time getting it to weight. I made a thick butt plate to help. The stock cost me $18 bucks in materials.




A couple of pictures without pain when it was in primer, and I shot a couple of match's like that.



Couple of pictures when I was building it.




And how it started out, when I laid out the laminates.

 

[Link]

82 boy Great job. I like the alpha Jewel [ metalflake ] paint.

I redid a 71 arctic cat King Kat 4 cylinder in the same paint. But I used black base coat.

This is my TC stock that I did, sorry not a bench stock however a stock.

I started a 40x 22Lr Br stock and never finished it.


thanks Link

 

[DeltaBravo]

So how much does your custom stock weigh? You did a great job on it and I'm curious about "getting it to weight" like you mentioned. ???

 

[Hal]

82

You sure did a great job on your stock.

Thanks for sharring pictures of the process.

Hal

 

[M-61]

That is some piece of work!!

 

[doc gordon]

now this is a great contribution to site !! thanks, doc

 

[82boy]

So how much does your custom stock weigh? You did a great job on it and I'm curious about "getting it to weight" like you mentioned. ???

Well unfortunately I never weighed it. I opened up a few spots in the stock, (Up in the forearm, and where a magazine box would be.) where I epoxied six 1 lbs. incants of lead. In the back I drilled a 1 inch hole about 12 inches deep, where I have filled with #7 1/2 lead shot. The brass butt plat is 1/4 inch thick. with that all said with a Savage action, weaver T36 scope, and a 28 inch long Shilen #7 contour barrel, the gun weighs in at just barely 16 lbs. (15 lbs 10oz to be exact.) I do have a second blank that came from this same board and I could weigh it. It would have a lot of material more than the final stock that would skew the final results. It might average out close as the blanks forearm is only 2 inch wide, where the finished stock I laminated up extra material on the forearm, to make it 3 inch wide.

The wood I used was 1/8 lauan plywood. I would say it is fairly close in weight to a fiberglass stock, like a McMillian Edge, or TMBR.

 

[82boy]

82 boy Great job. I like the alpha Jewel [ metalflake ] paint.

I redid a 71 arctic cat King Kat 4 cylinder in the same paint. But I used black base coat.

This is my TC stock that I did, sorry not a bench stock however a stock.

I started a 40x 22Lr Br stock and never finished it.


thanks Link

Thank you for the compliment. Nice looking stock as well. I have always loved the look of hardwood.

 

[82boy]

Well, The photos are not total correct. I did not like the silver after I shot it so I striped it down and repainted it black. I like this a lot better. You can also see how I finished off the brass butt plate.
Before.
After

after

 

[cncmill]

I swore I wouldn't make another stock from scratch after the first one but here is the second one I made. Curly cherry and mahogany.

Erick Crouthamel

 

[82boy]

I swore I wouldn't make another stock from scratch after the first one but here is the second one I made. Curly cherry and mahogany.

Erick Crouthamel

Wow, That is gorgeous!

 

[katokoch]

If you want to make a laminated blank with hardwoods, you can save money by sifting through #1 common grade lumber to find good boards you can work with. It's around $5/board foot locally here (if I remember correctly). The black walnut lumber for this stock cost me less than $30 a few years ago.

If you don't want to make an entirely new stock, another option could be inletting a rail into the fore-end and using a tracking plate: http://www.whiddengunworks.net/trackplate.html