24 March 2002, 15:00
ACRecurve416 Taylor stock
My 416 Taylor should be finished late next week and I should have it a few days later. I have a Bell and Carlson stock with an aluminum bedding block molded into it that will go on the barreled action. Has anyone else used one of these stocks on a 40 caliber or above? Just curious.
Good Hunting,
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Andy Cooper
26 March 2002, 18:42
tsturmquote:
Originally posted by ACRecurve:
My 416 Taylor should be finished late next week and I should have it a few days later. I have a Bell and Carlson stock with an aluminum bedding block molded into it that will go on the barreled action. Has anyone else used one of these stocks on a 40 caliber or above? Just curious.
Good Hunting,
I used that same type of B/C stock on a VZ-24 .458WM that I built last fall 
! I steel bedded the action to the stock to get the recoil lug area to fit correctly 
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Good luck!
No experience with that brand stock. I recently restocked my Taylor in a factory Winchester composite stock though.
It seems to be working fine so far. The factory stock is kinda cheap feeling though. Plus, the plastic stock makes the rifle look much cheaper than the factory wood stock it was in before.
That wood stock set back some of the wood between the recoil lug and the magazine opening due to recoil. After it was bedded and had a cross-bolt installed, it worked fine.
Now, even with what appears to be a better recoil pad (compared to the wood one) the rifle has more "felt" recoil, but it's still not too bad.
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Brian