300,

If you do choose to go the wood grip cap route, make sure you soak the wood in acetone before you epoxy it on. A lot of the exotic hard woods have a high oil content which can cause the glue to come undone over time. The acetone will remove the oils and give the glue a better surface to stick to.

Congomike, any chance you could post up photos? I'd be interested to see too.

I will try to get them up by the end of the week.

It has been a few weeks since I have worked on the CZ. Between long work hours and 105 deg high humidity days I have not gotten to work on it much. But today I did order one of the B-square cross bolt install jigs from midwayusa. I hope to have it in a few days and try to get the Talley crossbolts in also from midwayusa. There is alot of metal work to be done on the gun after the stock is refinished. I am thinking about sending it to AHR for there CZ package. It seems all of the local smiths in the area are not up to the task.

Looking forward to following your project.

Since I posted a week or so ago on your thread I broke my 505's glass stock in half. Following your lead I restocked in a CZ but this one a laminated stock.

A few pictures of the shaved stock and some of the bedding. (combo of steel bed and glas bed) Did pillar bedding as well which was easy. Thankfully the external cross bolts were already there. I just redid them with Glass bed. I also added 3 additional steel bolts internally in front of and behind the integral barrel lug and in front of the forward external recoil lug. Only had to cut one new channel after pulling the metal CZ plate out. It all added up to 4 more ounces on the stock weight





21" barrel




Pillar bedding was actually way easier than I expected...with a electric hand drill, a good file and 20 minutes time.



Combo of Steel bed on the barrel/reciever lugs and brown colored Glas bed in the barrel channel not so much.



Internally reinforced rear cross bolt.



I like the end results better than my custom and very expensive Graphite/Carbon stock now. Weights a bit more but I know it is a lot stronger as well. Just wanted to say thanks again for the encouragement! Wayne at AHR will treat you right..good call.

It looks like you're going TO have a fine rifle

I received the B-Square cross-bolt installation jig from Midway usa this week and today I got it out of the box to see how things line up.

Well they don't! The drill holes do not line up at all with the areas where the cross-bolts are supposed to go. Perhaps I am doing something wrong?

RDB, did the laminate stock come from the factory with a pancake cheekpiece?!

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Originally posted by Sevens:
RDB, did the laminate stock come from the factory with a pancake cheekpiece?!

No, I just cut it out of the oversize factory laminated stock with a drum sander on a dremel.

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.......... I broke my 505's glass stock in half ..........

What is a glass stock, RDB? Jut curious, I am not familiar with the term.

JP

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What is a glass stock

Fiberglass

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Originally posted by Sevens:

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What is a glass stock

Fiberglass

Thank you. That is what I thought it might be. I wasn't sure because when I was at the range last two bench rest shooters had highly specialized rifles, both with very colorful (golden and lapis lazuli) high gloss stocks that I thought might be made of some resinous or glass based compound - I forgot to ask the owners about that before they departed.

JP

I have been behind on my .458 Lott project. Manage to get crossbolts drilled in stock and first 2 coats of truoil to stock.



I had been nervous to apply this stuff. First stock but what the heck if it turns out bad its only a factory stock right.

Looks good so far! Filling the pores and applying coat after coat of oil is always the hardest part if you ask me because it requires patience (of which I have very little ).

Look forward to seeing the final pics!