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Lt. Wt. rifle stock

HawkshawHawkshaw Member Posts: 1,016 ✭✭
edited May 2010 in Ask the Experts
Short of going to an expensive MPI stock. Who makes a quality, drop in synthetic stock. (Win. Rem. Browning) THX Hawkshaw
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    H-S Precision, Brown Precision, Bell and Carlson, are the more affordable ones. Brown Precision, if they are still in business, are the ones that made some for Remington in the mid to late 80's. They had a Model 7 FS, that weighed a cataloged 5 1/4 pounds out of the box, available in 243, 7mm-08, and 308. I have a 308 version that I removed the sights from, installed pillars, and removed the pressure point in the forearm about 2 inches back from the tip. With a 3-9 Leupold VX-II compact, 5 rounds of ammo, and a Uncle Mike's padded nylon sling, it weighs in at 6 lbs.-2 oz.

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  • jaegermisterjaegermister Member Posts: 692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    usually the less expensive synthetic stocks are lighter, but less strong and lack bedding. But these features may suit your desire for weight loss. Also some synthetic stocks (by molding the mag/trigger guard)eliminate the original steel magazine box and trigger guard, this cuts down the weight considerably, but requires rounds to be run thru the chamber to eject, also reduces the action to stock stiffness, not really always a problem. Careful ,get too light with certain calibers and recoil and off hand steadiness can become issues.
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  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 15,576 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ramline.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hawkshaw,

    There are two kinds of lightweight stocks:

    1) Those that are simply lightweight.

    2) Those that are lightweight and rigid enough to be functionally usable.

    You get to make the choice but bear in mind that those stocks such as the Ramline and ones that come on standard factory Remington synthetics are made from injection molded plastics with no rigidity whatsoever. The forearms can be twisted, bent and worse, suffer from too much heat when left in a car. These are cheap stocks for a reason, they are made to make a price point with no regard for serviceable life or function.

    Good quality, lightweight stocks which are rigid enough to provide consistency and accuracy, will be made with a shell of carbon fiber. Not just a little nonfunctional strip of this material included in the mold to keep the lawyers happy with a claim of using carbon fiber, but a real shell for rigidity. One of the major synthetic stock makers used to make advertising claims such as I stated above until they got caught. Now they are taking it in the face from other stock makers who use the carbon fiber shell and are taking the market shares away from the first company by making better stocks.

    There is no cheap solution and MPI doesn't even enter into the top 10 manufacturers anymore.

    'Drop in' is irrelevant since all stock will be drop in but really need to be bedded for best results. Yes, even the inimitable HS and B&C aluminum chassis stocks require bedding. I even bed the $1,000.00 Accuracy International chassis stocks for best results.

    Good Luck with your search!

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