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...Snide little pricks like Accrabond rod and customstoks seem to take exception to that kind of impertinence. These weaselily people ... he should just slink off in a corner and keep the dirty little secret to himself...

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walex don't keep his mouth properly and politically correct shut when someone sells him a defective and shoddily manufactured product. Snide little pricks like Accrabond rod and customstoks seem to take exception to that kind of impertinence. These weaselily people think that when a nice guy like MtnHtr has his money tied up for 8 months, then is shipped a defective product, numerous defects and even a hole in the cast reciever, and then is given no satisfaction in a considerable amount of time and then is given the runaround and double shuffle by the company representative and the owner himself, he should just slink off in a corner and keep the dirty little secret to himself, and heaven forbid don't warn his buddies. Actually the Acrrbond stoks that I've seen were really good looking, and I thought were one heck of a product and would really dress up most of the otherwise beautiful rifles that had some real ugly sticks bolted on to them.

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Sorry, don't have any pics. The Lamination is obvious, but it's not ugly if that makes sense. The laminate on mine is exactly 3/4" wide on the bottom and top. That's 3 pieces, 1/4" wide each, glued together. I am very happy with mine and wouldn't hesitate to buy another, and may in fact do that. Now that Rod owns the company, I think the new stocks will have better quality inletting. Mine is good, but it could have been just a bit tighter around the action and the bolt. The barrel channel is perfect. The recoil pad was a perfect installation. The only thing that I don't like about mine is the comb has a slight rise to it. I prefer them to come straight back, maybe even drop just a little. They, (stock makers) say that a slight rise reduces felt recoil and that may be true. I just like the sight plane better when the comb of the stock is level as opposed to raised. As to the stock itself, it's a beautiful piece of Bastogne. Lot's of Fiddleback, excellent grain. I finished it myself with true oil and it came out perfect for what I want it for. This gun is the gun I use in Alaska. It's been carried on my back for hundreds of miles on a snowmobile, and doesn't get special treatment. If I was to buy another, I think I'd go for grain instead of the fiddleback. My gun is stainless, and the fiddleback doesn't really go that well with it. I'm still pleased with it though.



I don't think you can go wrong with them. Rod is a great guy to deal with. When Mel died, my stock wasn't finished. I wasn't about to get after a woman who had just lost her husband. I figured that's just the way it goes sometimes. Well, one day I received an E-mail from Rod telling me he was going to finish all of the outstanding stocks that Mel had. He did, including mine. Not many folks who would do that sort of thing. He won me over, and has a customer for life.



Joel Babcock

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I had payed for the stock, and figured I'd never see the stock, or the money. I was more than pleased with the finished product. The gun is accurate, and this last Spring the gun bounced all over the Western end of the Seward Peninsula looking for those long haired pigs of the North Lots of wet snow, unfortunately no bears, but point of impact never changed. It's a great product.

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My partner and I have been arguing all day as to who should be the troll and who should be the weasel. We decided that sales (Larry) would make a great weasel cuz he could then say anything to make the sale. Operations (me), could be the troll who bites off heads when asked "Is it done yet?" and spits them out the back door for the coyotes to munch on, provided of course we haven't kilt them all by now. Just when we got it settled, now we must decide who's snide and who has a little prick. That's likely to be a bit more difficult.

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He, he! That just made my day! I badly needed that!

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About a week after Mel passed away, I got a letter from a lawyer demanding a refund in five days. I call the firm, explained that proprietor has passed and asked to speak with their client (our customer). The customer called, and was adament. He believed his stock was junk and this was the second one and he was fed up.

I asked him to return it and we would get a refund out immediately.

I got the stock back and guess what. He was right. The finish was poor, the grip cap badly dinged, the butt pad on crooked. I can't imagine how it must have looked to a guy stuck in a wheelchair, doped to the gills on painkillers while a staph infection rotted away his backside. We sent the check.

And then we refinished the stock, installed a new butt pad, a new grip cap, and sent the stock too. Never heard from the customer, but I reckon he won't bad mouth us too much.

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That was great post Rod! I wonder what your customer thought when he received the refinished stock after the refund?? If he had had any decency, the least he could have done was to call up and figure out what was going on. Anyway, you get to deal with all sorts of people, he probably could not possibly imagine that the stock had been returned to him as a deliberate act, so now thinks you are totally disorganized, that the "refund" department does not know what the "stock refinish" department does, and vice versa. Sigh, can't win them all, I suppose

Happy to see that the Cheetah has other proponents - I thought it looked pretty darn spiffy! Keep up the good work!
- mike