Hi everyone

Ordered a new Boyd's lightweight thumbhole stock in forest camo for my Savage 116. It just arrived and wanted to share info and initial thoughts....

As background, I ordered this under the "Rapid Fire program" and it cost $115 plus shipping. Compared the information on the rapid fire stock to a stock "built" through the menu, and the dimensional info was the same even through the model number was different. Here is how it showed up in the shopping cart, so that everyone knows specifically what was ordered:



Initial thoughts on the stock:
  • Color is mostly what I expected. The green is a touch lighter than the pictures on the site and what I saw when I searched online, but overall happy with the color.
  • Exterior finish is smooth and even.
  • Recoil pad is the Boyd's version and is firmer than I expected - will probably swap at some point
  • The overall inlet area was not sanded or "finished" - don't know if I expected it to be or not - but there are some small areas of clean up that will need to be done. Not a big deal and not something that bothers me.


One major negative - the Stock contains checkering that was not listed in the description and is a type that isn't even shown as an option on the web site. I am going to guess that this was either a custom stock ordered and never delivered/cancelled, or something of that nature. I am calling this a negative because the web site did not mention any checkering at all and I feel that it should have been mentioned. NOTE - just realized that the picture in the shopping cart shows the checkering and I did not catch it. That being said, the page for the item did not mentioned checkering.

I will provide more info on fit when I get some time to install the stock, but wanted to provide initial thoughts.