Wondering on wood stock fit for a rifle, is anyone bending them with heat lamps or hot oil like is commonly done with shotgun stocks for gunfit? as opposed to shaving and sanding for example.

thanks Jameister

That's a good question. It would actually seem easier to bend a rifle stock than a 2-pc. shotgun buttstock. I suspect it isn't often done because rifle stock fit does not need to be as precise as that for shotguns where the shooter's eye serves as the rear sight.

Jameister,

If you buy a stock from GAG it comes already bent!

Rick............you beat me to it

Joe Shiozaki of J.S. Stocks in Azusa, CA bends stocks using the heat lamp method. He's bent several shotgun stocks for me but he can also do rifles. He is, however, very fussy about which stocks he will try and which he won't.

I do not know if it is still commonly done. I did once own an all-original Rigby Mauser .275 which had slightly over 3/4" of cast-off. Apparently the chap for whom it was built had some sort of physical problem.

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
I do not know if it is still commonly done. I did once own an all-original Rigby Mauser .275 which had slightly over 3/4" of cast-off. Apparently the chap for whom it was built had some sort of physical problem.

If he had it built that way, he may have just have been "full-figured" with narrow-set eyes!

I'm a fairly normally built guy but I just built a .22 low wall with about 1" of cast off. It is meant to be shot differently than a modern rifle, and hence the need for most cast. It would probably be quite painful in a heavy caliber however.

Brent

I have a candidate rifle stock for the bending caper. It has a lot of cast-on, and doesn't fit me at all. The rifle was built in 1947 for my Step Dad right after he came home from WW II. He needed cast on to shoot well, and shoot well he did. When he departed this planet, I wound up with the rifle. The stock is beautiful, so I wanted to keep it as is, but would like to do the bend job.
The rifle is a varmint stock with a semi beaver tail forend and was a 257 Roberts for chuck hunting in Pennsylvania. It is on a liberated Mauser 98 action and heavy 26" Buhmiller barrel. He shot the barrel out, and I had it bored out and rechambered for a 284 Winchester after he left. Built by Rk Nelson.
Don

Contact David Yale of SMT, Inc. 970/562-4225 with your question/problem. Accomplished 'smith that mentioned in passing that he did that although I don't recall discussing particulars with him. He's located in Yellow Jacket, Co.

Dan,
Thanks for the lead!!
I'll contact him.
Don

brilley in houston does this.

jeffe