Ill start with this rifles history.
back in the 1950s you could build rifles in shop class at school! My father sporterized a 303enfield he didnt care fo it so he sold it for $30 and bought a 1903 springfield from Montgomery Wards for $38. Of course then the chopped it added a Williams peep and a side mount scope off a 94 win. I hunted with it when I was a kid. It shot great and would feed very fast. I ended up with the gun if I wouldnt change it to much. So my middle son needed a rifle. I know thumbhole stocks arent too popular here but he is a kid and thats what he wanted. We bedded the barrel and action. i inlaid some simple oak leaves of walnut and cherry. We powdercoated the metal. It has about 8 coats of sanded finish so far and we want to add a few more after season. I hope to add the better safety next year and we are going to put the very old weaver 4x sided mounted back on until he can get a little better one.
Dean

Dean,

Hey, if he likes the stock that’s all that counts! Pretty piece of wood no matter what style it is.

Who knows, by the time he passes it down to his son maybe regular type stocks will be back in style for the younger crowd...or they’ll be making them out of some new space material.

Nice..

i've had a couple thumbholes.... too

jeffe

Yeah, by the time he's our age that may be the new "classic style" American stock.

Who cares what they want their gun to look like as long as they want to shoot it. Nice job on the oak leaves by the way!

I have a .270 that I put that exact stock on and I love it.

Took a great Pronghorn with it just 4 days ago.

I really like what you did with the forend - looks like you took off some excess wood from the tip and made a larger thumbhole.

It looks great and I may use your photos to reshape mine.

Riodot
I took alot of wood off of it. I did remove that "bump" off the tip area and narrowed up the forestock quite a bit. i would have removed about 1/16th more all around but my boy wanted it done for season.
Dean
It was to be used first on pronghorn but we didny get drawn so we will give it a try during whitetail season.