Making your own simple wood stock?

[DrThunder88]

Fiberglass stocks would have interior surfaces made primarily of epoxy and fiberglass (if they don't have aluminum bedding blocks). Whether the internal structure is laid-up fabric or cast with chopped strands, I don't know, but it strikes me as feasible. Fiberglass stocks are probably a good comparison, since they're made in halves. A few crossbolts in vital sections would be good for reinforcement.

I have made a forend and buttstock for a Rossi single shot, but that's a completely different animal.

Edit: My mistake, it looks like McMillan at least fills the hulk with an epoxy putty which is then has the inletting milled out on a CNC machine.

[BillPa]

Fiberglass stocks would have interior surfaces made primarily of epoxy and fiberglass (if they don't have aluminum bedding blocks). Whether the internal structure is laid-up fabric or cast with chopped strands, I don't know, but it strikes me as feasible.

One of my rifles, a Mauser 98 in 280Imp is in what was a MPI Ruger 77 stock. A guy had ordered it, paid the $100 deposit then changed his mind choosing to stay with the original wood stock. It laid around the shop for about year then for whatever reason one evening while having a '98 action on the bench I remembered it on the rack. Hummmm.........

The center section of MPI stocks are a solid molded mass from the wrist out past the lug area. A few minutes in a mill the 98 dropped (fell?) in. Next I mixed polyester resin and cabosil into a peanut butter consistency and rough bedded the action.

It was inletted for the Ruger hinged floor plate so to make my life easier I converted it to a blind mag by closing the inlet with 6oz 'glass cloth, cutting the liner portion off the 98 floorplate assembly and attached it to the action 700ADL style with two tabs-screws. I used a 700 ADL trigger guard and made an escutcheon for the front action screw.

All that was left to do, fit the barrel channel, bed it with Devcon F-F2 and paint it with Illinois Bronze wrinkle paint, what I used at time to paint the stocks.

Bill