Originally Posted by
jpdown
Chrazy-Chris, pictures sure do make it easier for other members to provide advice. Your rifle already has the composite DBM frame assembly (surround) and bottom cap. It will fit a Boyd's stock with a bottom bolt release and center feed DBM inlet. You may want to order a metal trigger guard. You can order from Savage Arms Parts. Give them your rifle serial number and tell them you want a matte metal bottom bolt release trigger guard. You will need to open up the barrel channel on the Tacticool stock to float a varmint/bull contour barrel. Use a short dowel rod or socket with a diameter similar to the barrel wrapped in sand paper. There is plenty of wood on the sides to do so. The pictures below shows a CBI light varmint countor barrel and bottom metal fitted into a Tacticool stock that I just finished. The composite DBM frame assembly (surround) and bottom cap are the same dimensions as the metal parts. The only difference is the way the bottom cap latches up to frame assembly.
It should also be noted that I had to sand off about 1/4" of wood from the bottom of the stock around the trigger guard so that it was flush and not recessed in the inlet. I've got fat short fingers. I also had to deepen the inletting at the front of the DBM frame assembly and glass bed the area so that I could move the lips of the magazine box closer to the bolt head before it would pick up and reliably feed .204 Ruger cartridges from the magazine. This may not be an issue with larger cartridges. But with my Tacticool stock, it was not a simple drop-in fit. Others experince may differ.
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