I know a bunch has been written here bout stock duplicators. I have a Rugger M77 going out to Greg Tannel next month and, well I want to put a McMillan under her. The problem is McM only makes one replacement stock, and I would like the Winchester supergrade style replacement.



I wonder could I have McM send me a stock with no inletting and have someone use a duplicator to hog out the inletting as a Ruger M77? I have my regular stock to use as a pattern.



Is this feasable or should I have somebody just open up my facory stock to hold the #5 contour barrel?

Have you asked McMillan to inlet their stock of your choice for a Ruger barreled-action?

I've seen this done on more than one occasion. For example, I've seen the Sako Hunter and post-1964 Model 70 Monte Carlo stocks inletted for the Model 700 Remington, etc.

It might be worth a call to ask........

AD

Yep - I tried - they said no - my Ruger is a M77 not the MKII so they don't get a bunch of calls for that and I guess they don't have the time or inclination to mess with it.

You might want to chat with MPI. They will hand-lay a composite stock for anything with a trigger! They did a bang-up job with my original Newton (now in .30 Belted Newton, AKA .30/.338 Mag), and it is one of the most accurate sporting rifles I have ever fired.



They aren't cheap though...'specially if you ask them to make, bed, camo paint, and install a quick-removable buttpad with storage underneath, as I did....



Alberta Canuck