I have a couple Boyds stocks and love them. I have JRS on a M70 in 308 and the Thumbhole sporter on a M70 300 WM. For a hard use hunting gun they cant be beat. You cant compare them to a piece of exhibition claro but they are well made and fit me very comfortably.
Posts: 3156 | Location: Rigby, ID | Registered: 20 March 2004
I've got the JRS laminate on my 458 Win and it's held up fine to 5-6 boxes of full power loads. It's got 2 of the ugliest crossbolts in it (Jeffe has seen them) but they seem to work. The barrel has a second recoil lug and the action and lug are well bedded.
Posts: 1242 | Location: Houston, TX, USA | Registered: 04 April 2002
This is not a big bore but my 300 ultramag on boyds lam stock. I stained it with dark walnut and then went back over it with light walnut to knock the greent tint out. The problem I have had with staining lam stock is they can turn kind of green with some dark stains. I found that the darker you try to make them the greener they get.
Duh......maybe I should try a med stain and it wouldnt turn green.
Its really not as red as the pic makes it look, and I'm not a midget, I just havent put a recoil pad on it yet.
Posts: 1868 | Location: League City, Texas | Registered: 11 April 2003
I outta take a couple pics of the stock, mirror image them, and post that I found a secert cache of left handed mausers and talked boyds into making stocks..
then i decided that was too mean for any day but 4/1
Quote: I thought that I saw some stocks listed as LH.
For Winchester M-70s? I didn't see any the first time I looked. I'll have to check again.
Quote: I outta take a couple pics of the stock, mirror image them, and post that I found a secert cache of left handed mausers and talked boyds into making stocks..
then i decided that was too mean for any day but 4/1
jeffe
Evil bastard! I love it!
George
Posts: 14623 | Location: San Antonio, TX | Registered: 22 May 2001
I get to the homepage, but none of the links work. What is the price on one of the JRS stocks? I just might have to get one for my P-17 500 Jeffrey, would certainly save me some time over starting from a blank.
Posts: 7213 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 27 February 2001
The links worked yesterday, but didn't for me today either. I think the prices were either $65 or $100ish They also have a section on stock blanks some of which are listed as fancy walnut. I'm thinking that you could purchase one of their blanks and have it done up on their machine. They didn't have any clear pics, but might be worth calling to ask about.
I found a Rem 30 Express in great condition the other day. Now I just have to see if I can justify it in the middle of my other projects.
Posts: 2924 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 23 December 2002
I am another Boyds stock fan, I am doing a twin of this rifle in 270 WSM. I bought them with the tubberware stocks and switched them out to Boyd laminates. I didn't stain them any color, mine came in nutmeg color.
I had a 375 H&H mag done in a Boyds laminated stock, had my gunsmith add cross bolts, Ebony pistol cap and forend cap, deselerator pad, pillar and glass bedded.
Here is a pic. It has held up very well. I have fired at least over 200 rounds of hot 375 H7H loads. The guys at Boyds told me to definitely add the cross bolts for 375 on up in caliber.
Traditional it isn't.... but cool..
This will be my backup when I leave on Sunday Morning for Zim.
Posts: 1015 | Location: PA | Registered: 08 June 2002
Jeff, Billy, well, I figured out why the boyds seem to help suck up recoil... the pad area of the stock is within 1/8 of an inch as area as a LARGE pac f990 pad... which I rough mounted on mine today.
Jana is buying me a 6" belt/12" disk sander for my b-day next month!! So i don't have to use the CRAPPY 6"disk delta i've got
I realize boyds was a wide at the butt, had to look at the one I have.
Not sure where your going to put a beast 6" belt sander with all the other stuff you got.
I have a 2 1/2 with a 9" if I remember, way to many RPM's, dims the lights when ya flip the switch. I'm going to get me a variable speed hand held belt sander and mount it on a stand or my bench for finishing.
Whatever you get make sure you can slow it down.
Posts: 1868 | Location: League City, Texas | Registered: 11 April 2003
JCN, man, that would HURT... i've used 80 grit to form O1 toolsteel knives.. it shapes like PLASTIC that way...
oh, yeah, and you need to sing "the lion sleeps tonight" twice, trying to hit the high notes.
Billy, rewire that lights dimmer for 220.. and then put a "router speed control" on it... just a potentiameter, but works really well... just keep an eye.. and finger or two, on the motor temp.
Boyd's Varmint stocks are also great as are their thumbhole stocks.
I am just finishing up a 6mm Remington in a 1917 Enfield action, with a heavy barrel, and choose a Pepper ( Black/Gray) Laminate Stock for it. The rifle has a matt black finish. What a beautiful looking rifle.
It has a one in 7 twist, 28 inch Pac Nor barrel on it to go with the 107 to 115 grain target bullets.
The stock was $80.00 unfinished from Boyd's/.
I wish all firearms companies were like Boyds. Leupold scopes would be $75.00, a new Model 70 or Rem 70 or Ruger 77 would be $150.00. Life would be fun and affordable again!
Where would one send a Boyd's to be properly instaled on a New Mod 70 Safari Express 416 Rem, with cross bolts, good pad, bedding, recoil supressor etc. Close to California as possible..And what would it cost. maddog
Posts: 1899 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 03 May 2001
I've just ordered another boyds lam for an enfield I am having worked on. I will have to do some shaping as they only have the perch belly and mine has been modified slightly. My question is. Have any of you had to work on them in shaping or opening barrel channels and how did they handle? Any pitfalls in working with a laminated stock.? I was also told they will be a month out. Frank
Posts: 6935 | Location: hydesville, ca. , USA | Registered: 17 March 2001
Quote: I've got the JRS laminate on my 458 Win and it's held up fine to 5-6 boxes of full power loads. It's got 2 of the ugliest crossbolts in it (Jeffe has seen them) but they seem to work. The barrel has a second recoil lug and the action and lug are well bedded.
Browningguy,
What stain did you use?
John
Posts: 1246 | Location: Northern Virginia, USA | Registered: 02 June 2001
Hey Frank, I've done a couple of their laminates. They were harder to work than walnut, I think the wood used (birch?) is harder and denser than the walnut stocks I have done. I think the lamination/gluing process results in a dense/hard "wood product". Sharp tools seemed to be the answer, but the tools should always be sharp regardless of the wood being worked. BTW the "Haenel Special" is still for sale.
Posts: 8169 | Location: humboldt | Registered: 10 April 2002
John, I don't knoiw for sure is the real answer, the gunsmith who built it did the staining. I do a lot of woodworking though and it appears that he used a red mahoghany stain first, then went over that lightly with a dark brown or black.
I'm doing that on a set of Windsor chairs for a friend now and it looks almost identical in color.
Posts: 1242 | Location: Houston, TX, USA | Registered: 04 April 2002
