Awhile ago I saw an ad for all aluminum stocks in some gun mag. Has anyone seen one or know anything ( good or bad ) about them? Who makes them and how does one get in touch with them?

reloaderman,

We have them in Australia but they are benchrest configuration. They are made as a skeleton in the butt and forend.

Their advantage over bench rest fiberglass stocks is that you can bed them where the hollow fiberglass stocks have to be done as glue ins. Also we can have the aluminium stocks done as repeaters.

One disadvantage they have is that they are very cold to touch in wintertime and I would imagine that would be a much bigger problem with the sort of cold you have in America.

They also "ring" when you fire them from a bench.

A big advantage they have over fiberglass is that being metal you can simply do things with them that you can't do with fiber glass.

The ones we have weigh about the same as the synthetic stock on a Rem 700, say about 2.5 pounds or so.

Mike

They're made and distributed by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and they're FREE...they're highly polished and make a nice "pinging" noise whenever anything touches them. The comb is very sharp and has a lot of drop and the butt plate is hard and pointy. PETA suggests .375 H&H and up for maximum effect.

The only ones I have seen were target stocks for bench guns, and for ISU Smallbore Free Rifles, On the ones I saw, The action and most of the barrel were free foated, and a clamp around the barrel shank held the barreled action into the stock. I believe that Anchutz now sells the 2013 with this style stock as an option.

benchrest shooting maybe.

hunting? I don't think so

No doubt on a cold winter day there will be some idiot somewhere who will lick the damn thing and get his tongue semi-permanently attached to it.

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"shoot 'em if you got 'em!"

They're fairly popular in long-range BR guns. I've been told that aluminum has excellent vibration dampening qualities, a real benefit when trying to get a 10shot string downrange quickly.

Many are used for rifles in the Heavy Gun classes.

This is a one-off I saw in Switzerland.

This is from Pennsylvania in July. Heavy Guns must weigh between 16.5 - 100 pounds. This one weighs right around 95 pounds. The guy who built the stock is a machinist by trade and he wrote a CNC program to cut this thing from one massive chunk of aluminum. Most Heavy Gun stocks are made up of several pieces bolted together. The 95 pound guns seem to be the exception; most in this class weigh around 65 and less.

I believe I saw some AL stocks in the Brownells catalog too. Like the other posters, I see no real practical hunting applications for them, and I wouldn't like to grab one after it has been in the sun on a hot afternoon.

Have a look at this site. http://marksmanarms.com/

Some people just simply have no soul!

I'm sure in my mind the anti-Christ had a hand in designin stocks of metal and plastic.

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

GOD, I WAS HOPING RAY WOULD WEIGH IN ON THIS ONE. I can relax now.

I saw an experimental aluminum stock for an M1 Garand at a gun show once about 20 years ago, I thought it was a joke and passed. I read a Garand book several years afterwards that it was a legitimate attempt at reducing manufacturing costs on wartime garands, trying to cut costs of walnut stocks. :O

Gee Ray, you didn't like the first pic? Man, I thought it was pretty cool. I wanna come up with a design similar to this for my next Light Gun. I won't need the pistol grip or adjustable comb since I fire Free recoil.

Of course, we want entirely different things from our guns.

Have a good one

To all.....thanks for your coments on the aluminum stocks! They look nice but I think I'll try something else.
Thanks again
Reloaderman