I have asked about a Boyd's stock and really no reply.
Several people admit that the New plastic Savage stock is a flimsy POS.

Several people stated the filled the stock and reinforced the fore end stock with metal and bedding.

Who can tell me how they did the strengthening of the stock?

I have the time and the gun is shooting pretty well not but I cannot handle the flimsy front stock. I am shooting 1" and a little less but I have the bag almost the the front screw. I do not trust the stock.

Thanks, Jim

I tried... didn't like the way it turned out.... I got fiberglass putty, like you do car body work with... mixed it with the hardener at correct proportions, packed it in the hollow spots of the stock, had masking tape on the barrel, action, mag box, etc... let it set for about 30 minutes until it set up... removed barrel action from the stock... it looked great.. till I whacked the stock on a chair. the hardened fiberglass fell out... it wont stick to the savage axis stock... I even roughed it up beforehand... 1" groups would be good enough for me...

I did a cheap Remington SPS plastic stock. I used a rotary tool to rough things up and drilled holes through the walls. I do a fair amount of composite work and have a lot of stuffed on hand. I made a mix of epoxy, 1/4" chopped carbon fibers and micro balloons (add fibers till very thick)to fill the stock to just below the barrel. After it cured I bedded the stock with barrel covered in Teflon heat shrink tube (to free float barrel) with carbon fiber cloth in the barrel channel.
It is very stiff, I could beat things to death with it.

M

I've done several cheapo Remington plastics, one Savage, one Ruger Hawkeye, and one Houge. I used Marine-tex on all but one. I used Devcon 10110 on one. The Devcon is a harder, better material, but the Marine-Tex is sooo much easier to work with.

I would consider each one a major improvement and well worth the effort.

I have done it with MAS Marine Epoxy. Grind it out deep enough to epoxy in one layer of fibreglass. Then proceed to bed as usual. Rough up the epoxy the next day and use anything to bed it. I like Devcon but they are all good. Also have glassed in a rod of steel. I just use a little ingenuity. It works perfectly.

Any stock can be glass bedded and made to work! I like several different compounds, most of them work just fine. I glass bedded about every make and model rifle out there except the Savage stocks in question, but Im sure I could..I would suggest using a piece of aluminum I beam in the forend for starters and then bed it tight..if that does not work, the take out some glass between the recoil lug and keep pressure on the forend, if that doesn't work free float the barrel leaving it tight the first two inches of the barrel in front of the front ring...Do it in this order and it will be a cleaner job as opposed to having to add glass to glass...If you don't find the sweet spot with this method then if probably your barrel...