Grant, to be honest mate the only reason I bought the unfinished stock was they didn't have any finished stocks. With the unfinished stock I had to open up the magazine and trigger wells a little to accommodate a timney trigger. I also had to accommodate a turned down bold handle which isn't difficult using a round file and a dremal tool. Then using the dremal tool with sander on it I took some of the wood away from the barrel inlet in order to completely free float the barrel. After that it was a case of oiling the stock which only takes a couple of days including drying time.
If you don't want to do all the faffing around then I'd spend the extra and go with the finished stocks if I were you. I bought one of their finished stocks for my 22-250 and it was a perfect fit, didn't have to work on it at all.
Blu wrote:Grant, to be honest mate the only reason I bought the unfinished stock was they didn't have any finished stocks. With the unfinished stock I had to open up the magazine and trigger wells a little to accommodate a timney trigger. I also had to accommodate a turned down bold handle which isn't difficult using a round file and a dremal tool. Then using the dremal tool with sander on it I took some of the wood away from the barrel inlet in order to completely free float the barrel. After that it was a case of oiling the stock which only takes a couple of days including drying time.
If you don't want to do all the faffing around then I'd spend the extra and go with the finished stocks if I were you. I bought one of their finished stocks for my 22-250 and it was a perfect fit, didn't have to work on it at all.
Hope this helps you.
Blu
Cheers Blu. Sounds like the extra $30 is money well spent.
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This is the Yugo M48 Mauser I did as well, took a little more time to get the dings out of it but I got there. It's nothing fancy but it looks better than it did.
I don't normally go for colored stocks, but those colors really suit the laminate...like a natural cammo.
Is it an optical illusion, or has the scope got quite a forward slant on it?...are you going to use it for longer range stuff?
Dougan, Yeah the green in the stock was the reason I chose it. It looked rather dull in the natural wood but as you can see it came up very nice. The scope thing is an optical illusion I guess, the rifle is tilted at an angle on the bipod. Plus the end of the scope has a rather large bell. As for long range use, I am still in the load development stage for the rifle but the indications so far are that it's a keeper.
So another 'keeper' from the pawn shop (forced grin )
I've been having a few problems loading for my Carl Gustav - not from an accuracy point of view (it seems to shoot any recipe straight), but because I'm trying to find a low load that doesn't soot up the chamber...but I digress...so may revive an old topic, and would be very interested in what you've found so far...
(forced grin