i received this stock from a fellow hunter the other day .....it seems his father inlaw passed away or his fateher did and left him with this unfinished stock .....the fellow has NO idea what it was being made for ,so now it's up to me to figure out what the stock was intended for .....I can add additional photos if they are needed ....Thanks BB34

my guess is going to be a sporterized, or commercial mauser with a side safety. looks very similar to one I have sitting out there that is for a 98 but not the side safety which is what I think that top right most carve out in the second picture is to accomodate.

Looks like a small ring Mauser. Likely a M93 but could be a M96. There appears to have been some carving around in the rear tang area. Also a relief for a side safety perhaps.

edit: Sako L-461, I missed the 7 inch screw spacing

pic: http://www.customshopinc.com/c...ngs/images/153_3.jpg

Sako, probably a m579, the medium length action.Bill

Bill is all over it.....it's a Sako. I'm not sure on the length without measuring one of my patterns.

Shane Thompson

Fourth vote for SAKO. No tang relief for a Mauser. But that's not a 95% inletted stock; more like 85%.

Thanks gentelemen ,I forgot to mention that I did try a K98 action in to the inletting and the bolt pattern is to short for a K98 ....If you need further measurements please let me know so I can narrow down the application .....It was going to be a nice stock,or should I say it will be a nice stock someday,but I'm not that good with wood so somebody else is going to have to finish this project...BB34

Enfield P'14 or Model 1917? Not if my measurements on my inletted stock are the same as yours it is definitely NOT an Enfield!

I just fell over this thread, It said Sako to me, although I'm no expert, just had similarities to my finnbear.

To me it looks like a Mexican short mauser.

To me it looks like a stock that needs many hours of work.
Butch

Butch, you drove that nail with one blow.

That is the type of inletting that you get from the likes of Great American Gunstocks or Boyd's. It is the type that would make a neophyte change his mind about doing a stock job.

Tiggertate is right. 85% of the work is left to be done.

looks like its inletted for about 15 hours of work, that's what its for..

The L461 or AI have 6 1/4" hole spacings, and the L579 has a 6 7/8" spacing.

My semi-calibrated eyeball says L579....everything else fits......or will, with great effort....someday.

Hope this helps.

Kevin

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Sako, probably a m579, the medium length action.Bill

X?

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Originally posted by Jim Kobe:
It is the type that would make a neophyte change his mind about doing a stock job.

I can vouch for that. I am a neophyte who has done 2 semi-inlets that started like that, and I will never do another one. The trouble is that they look like they are mostly complete to someone who hasn't actually fitted one. I have to believe that they are probably more work that starting clean. If I ever do another stock it will be from scratch and I will use router bits and/or end mills to get clean sharp inside edges.

I found an old Fajen at a gun show a couple months ago that had never been on a rifle. I brought it home and my action dropped right in with virtually no gapping at all. Perhaps not as tight as a hand scraped custom by one of the fine builders on this forum, but light years ahead of the semi-inlets that look like they have been gnawed out by a Norwegian wharf rat.

I can't for the life of me understand why a major stock dealer can't invest in a relatively inexpensive CNC mill and write a simple program to inlet common actions to tight tolerances that don't require such painful hand fitting. Life is too short to spend that much time on such tedious and mostly hidden workmanship.

>I can't for the life of me understand why a major stock dealer
> can't invest in a relatively inexpensive CNC mill and write a
> simple program to inlet common actions to tight tolerances that
> don't require such painful hand fitting

I was looking at laminated stocks recently, and most of the web sites I hit said they do their inletting via CNC. Supposedly they need just a bit of hand cleanup to suit individual variations in the receivers.

It's been a long time since I priced laminated thumbhole target stocks. Prices have dropped to less than half of what they used to be, and most makers offer left-hand versions too. This is because CNC is now within the reach of small businesses and many individuals.

Unfortunately nobody seems to have a program to inlet the 1905 Ross action I acquired recently, so I'll have to do that one the old-fashioned way.

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Originally posted by Jim Kobe:
That is the type of inletting that you get from the likes of Great American Gunstocks or Boyd's.

but the boyd's will also be crookedly cut.

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Originally posted by delloro:

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Originally posted by Jim Kobe:
That is the type of inletting that you get from the likes of Great American Gunstocks or Boyd's.

but the boyd's will also be crookedly cut.

Now that's a bunch of horse pucky. I have a few Boyd's stocks and they are pretty damn good for the money. True , you get what you pay for but give me a break Kobe, they are a far cry from the peace of shit showed here in question. Let's give credit where credit is due. Not everyone can afford a David Miller stock.