That's a fine looking weapon. That's what they should have looked like from the factory. Did you add an aftermarket recoil lug? Has all your work improved it's accuracy?
Posts: 83 | Location: Ut | Registered: 23 December 2002
Conversion cost depends on what is desired in the stock. Runs about $700, including bottom metal for A-grade wood, basic checkering and the bottom metal kit.
Could run as high as $2000 for a full-house special selection stock with all the frills. Lots of steps in between.
McMillan can do it also as they have our bottom metal kits.
Posts: 106 | Location: Star Meadow, Montana | Registered: 12 January 2004
We install a recoil lug into the receiver slot. This is then bedded into the stock using copious reinforcing with MarineTex. The recoil lug has been tested for the last four years in an 8mm Rem Mag pushing 220gr bullets at 3000fps. Works good. The rifle is a 3/4 MOA shooter.
Posts: 106 | Location: Star Meadow, Montana | Registered: 12 January 2004
Good looking bullet launcher. I know you always want to showcase in photos the best angles but do you have any pics of the top of stock looking straight down on the comb and the bottom looking straight up on the forearm? Basically I'm looking to see how obvious the laminations are.
The degree to which the lamination shows is HUGELY variable stock to stock. Over the years (15 of them) ACRAbond did this process, at least six people laminated blanks. While I spend more time color matching than any of my predecessors, it's still an inexact process (cosmetically speaking). Sometimes the lamination is darn near invisible. This is true where the stock is uniform in color with a lot of figure to hide grain mismatch. Sometimes the colors change radically from toe to heel and it becomes impossible to hide the laminate when reversing a plank. Some folks care more than others about this issue and we try to match expectations with reality.
The following image depicts a rather good job at color matching. You can see the grain interruption along the upper edge of the comb, but just.
Posts: 106 | Location: Star Meadow, Montana | Registered: 12 January 2004
I know you always want to showcase in photos the best angles but do you have any pics of the top of stock looking straight down on the comb and the bottom looking straight up on the forearm? Basically I'm looking to see how obvious the laminations are. 
