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I bought a new stock for my Savage Axis in .223 from Boyds when the stocks were first made for public sale, and I am just about to go an bed the action as I just can't get the rifle to group under 1 1/2" at 100m

After smoking the stock with a candle I found that the recoil lug is not sitting square in the stock as the action touches the front left and back right on the lug, and there's not a lot of contact at all between the front of the action and the stock

I'm just curious if anyone else has bought one of these stocks and found the same thing's as me

So called 'drop in ' laminate stocks seldom are. Can wood be cut with the same precision as steel? But, if you are intending to bed it, it doesn't really matter.

I'll pop round later and look , give me a bell on the mobile when you're back.

mine worked fine, but then Howas have a mongo sized recoil lug that is wedge shaped and seems to bed itself in, that said, I have glass bedded mine and it was an easy process, and the gun is definitley a shooter.

I have a Boyds' thumb-hole stock on my Savage 110 .243 which required some fitting. I haven't seen one yet that will just '' drop in''. Unbedded, it is a sub MOA rifle but I have found that the less substantial Axis needs to be bedded, at US$99 these stocks are great value.

6.5x55 wrote:I have a Boyds' thumb-hole stock on my Savage 110 .243 which required some fitting. I haven't seen one yet that will just '' drop in''. Unbedded, it is a sub MOA rifle but I have found that the less substantial Axis needs to be bedded, at US$99 these stocks are great value.

I think it all depends which rifle you buy the stock for. I have a 6.5x55 Swede that was sporterized, I bought a Boyds stock for that and had to fiddle with it to fit and glass bedded it and now it fits and shoots great. My Remmy 700 on the other hand was different, it dropped right in, barrel free floated and it still shoots sub Moa. Didn't have to mess with that one at all.

Blu

Blu wrote:

6.5x55 wrote:I have a Boyds' thumb-hole stock on my Savage 110 .243 which required some fitting. I haven't seen one yet that will just '' drop in''. Unbedded, it is a sub MOA rifle but I have found that the less substantial Axis needs to be bedded, at US$99 these stocks are great value.

I think it all depends which rifle you buy the stock for. I have a 6.5x55 Swede that was sporterized, I bought a Boyds stock for that and had to fiddle with it to fit and glass bedded it and now it fits and shoots great. My Remmy 700 on the other hand was different, it dropped right in, barrel free floated and it still shoots sub Moa. Didn't have to mess with that one at all.

Blu

I've not tried one on a Remmy 700 but have found that Savage , Stevens , Winchester & Ruger have required some fitting.
Still, at the price, I have no complaints smile2
Peter

Thanks for all the replies

I still haven't got round to getting this done, other things have taken priority , but that's about to change

Waterford I will give you a buzz this week if you are around

I will let you all know how I get on with it, and how it shoots once its done

North East Sniper wrote:Thanks for all the replies

I still haven't got round to getting this done, other things have taken priority , but that's about to change

Waterford I will give you a buzz this week if you are around

I will let you all know how I get on with it, and how it shoots once its done

Yes please and...

Will do

Hopefully it will get done this weekend, fingers crossed, and maybe even tried out again at the weekend, again fingers crossed