Keep working on it. If it was the only one you had (let's say it is in the darkest days of the War of Independence), what would you do? Certainly, it can be replaced today quite easily by a unit from another manufacturer, but I waited 4 months for mine and I'm going to make it work, come hell or high water. It's wood: it can be shaped, sculpted, sanded, et cetera with simple hand tools-- it ain't steel.

As a further update on the saga of the Weatherby MK-V stock, I completed inletting the barrel channel this morning. I droped the action down into the stock to see how everything fit. Sure enough, the barrel fit tight all the way around, just the way I wanted it. The trigger didn't look right however, so I pressed the floorplate into place and put the screws in. The front screw bottomed out with a 1/4 inch to go and the back screw will not reach the reciever. The recoil lug is over an 1/8th of an inch from bottoming out. So other than never ordering from this sorry ass company again, what do I do with this nice piece of English Walnut?

Good point, maybe some shorter screws or something like that. I just wish there was a stock maker out there that could inlett worth a damn. Boyd's sounds alot better but they don't do left hand inlets for my rifles. I'll post some pics once this nightmare is completed.

Joe

GV, I found the problem with the screws. I had been repeatably dropping the action into the stock to check my work on the barrel channel. In doing so, I had quite a bit of dust from sanding built up in the screw hole in the recoil lug. I blew that out with compressed air and tryed it again. The recoil lug still needs to be deeper but the screws now turn in all the way. Once the dust was blown away, things fit better. Now I know why D'Arcy and Customstox get a premium for thier work, this aint easy. It would help if the inletting was even close. There is a huge gap on the off side of the action that will have to be filled with glass. Thanks for the help.

Joe

Joe

I just got a stock from them for a yugo M-48. Im actually quite pleased with the inletting but theres something else. I looked carefully at their pics and descriptions of wood grades before choosing the grade I wanted. In their own words, for a semi fancy grade "you can expect at least some figure". That is the grade I chose, but Ive had it for 4 or 5 days now and Im still looking for the figure...! The grain is straight as the day is long. What this amounts to IMO is theft by deception. They make it look like your getting a good deal on semi fancy and what you get is a raw deal on a select grade stock.

I spent about an hour on hold yesterday and was still never able to talk to anyone at all. Its too bad, I like the inletting job they did and they left enough wood for me to do what I want to do with the rest of it. Its not a bad piece of wood either, but it definatley falls short of their own webbsite descriptions of semi-fancy.

I agree that the more of this sort of work I do, the more I appreciate what Chic and other gunbuilders do. Its not nearly as simple as one might think. Id like to be able to use a good semi inlet, but this experience is really making me see why so many prefer to start from scratch.

When I glass bed a surplus Mauser stock, I remove the recoil bolt and remove a lot more wood. The whole volume is filled with Devcon Steel putty.