Does anyone have any experience with the Boyd's stocks that have the recently introduced "good" wood?

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Originally posted by wookie76:
Does anyone have any experience with the Boyd's stocks that have the recently introduced "good" wood?

Wood Grades (scroll down)

I wouldn't expect much, except the same sloppy fit.

Silvers is absolutely correct. I got their highest grade circassian and it really sucks.

Not a great stock. Usually serviceable but that's about it. Also, they know virtually nothing about rifles. The people I have talked to about dimensional errors on the site have told me "those are measurements from our model." 7 13/200"??? Come on! What is that? 7.065???

I recently got one of their laminated stocks, for a R 700
It actually fits quite good

Bedding compound can make a sloppy fit turn out quite well.

Instructor,

Bedding compound can make a functional stock, but the expectation for expensive wood is enough wood for hand fitting to produce an excellent fit.

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Originally posted by ClaMar:
Instructor,

Bedding compound can make a functional stock, but the expectation for expensive wood is enough wood for hand fitting to produce an excellent fit.

Very true. I might be wrong but I took Instructor's post as a tongue-in-cheek comment on Boyd's "quality" machine inletting.

There are no short cuts to a good stock, you get whatcha pay for..If one wants a hard working hunting stock at a decent price then I would recommend useing one of Brownells wood drop plus drop ins..they are workmanlike stocks that feel good and they work as well as any factory stock...However sometimes the best bet is to glass bed a factory stock and reshape it, take of a pound or two of wood, and you would be surprised how efficient they are and at a cost of about $150 finished you can't go wrong. I do this for a number of locals around here and they love them..

I guess my experience with Boyds' has been different. I recently had to replace the factory stock on my Browning X-Bolt when the dura-touch finish deteriorated into a sticky mess. I chose a Boyds' classic laminate stock and was okay with adding the additional 1+ lbs as my 300WM kicked liked a pissed mule. The order was placed on June 6th, and according to a stamp in the barrel channel was built on June 7th. It was delivered to my doorstep on June 10th. I ordered the stock with checkering and a Limbsaver recoil pad, both of which turned out well.

I took it to my smith to have it bedded and barrel floated and he commented that the inletting was near perfect and it was easy to work with.

I've not had an opportunity to shoot it much yet; but enough to know that it is shooting a bit more accurately than before. This may well be the result of the less felt recoil but regardless, I could not be happier with the Boyds' stock.

I've seen good and mediocre from them. Nothing unusable, but inletting that was probably not up to date relative to the barreled action of today.

Overall, I think they are good stocks to use as replacements that are on par with factory stocks. Are they on par with a custom stock? Nope. Are you paying for a custom stock? Nope.

You're paying a couple thousand less, but getting 80% there. Not a bad tradeoff for a lot of situations.

Jeremy

If Boyd's customer service changes, I don't care how good their stocks happen to be.

Interesting. I've bought one stock from them and it was the cheapest one they offered. Had Lon Paul bed it and I can't find a thing wrong with it.

Mark

Different strokes for different folks..Some are easy to please and others not..

About any drop in stock will work with a little bedding, but pride of ownership comes into play and that varies a lot..

I, personally, don't care for any simi inlet or drop in stock..but if I lived in Alaska, for instance Id not want to use one of my custom rifles, that's why I have a .338 with a wood and a Ruger boat paddle stock. Depends on how you intend to use one, how it shoots, and will it hold a zero, the rest is only eye candy.