Hey Guys,

I went to see my stockmaker this weekend and saw my project. (Pictures Later if I can figure it out). I had ordered a stock without a checkpiece for a couple reasons:

To reduce weight.

No actual significance

This gun will be for my son, I don't want the checkpiece to hit him in the face.

BUT, I think a stock with a checkpiece is much classier. You can tell its custom from 100 yards.

What does everyone else think?

Thanks Alot

ddj

I like rigs with or without such.
This petite m98 6.5x54 looks and is, just fine without one. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/community/gun...0766_jeffery_boi.jsp

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This gun will be for my son, I don't want the checkpiece to hit him in the face.

BUT, I think a stock with a checkpiece is much classier. You can tell its custom from 100 yards.

I shoot rifles, shotguns, and pistols (sometimes)... What I have learned from the previous is that a shooter will benefit from a stock that fits.

Whether it's a rifle or shotgun, you want the gun to come to shoulder with the sights in natural alignment.

This can be achieved without a cheekpiece. And was, historically, done so...

To me, a cheekpiece is to a rifle as a diamond is to a woman... Adds expense, not performance.

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Originally posted by trouthunterdj:
BUT, I think a stock with a checkpiece is much classier. You can tell its custom from 100 yards.
ddj

I agree. Guns without a CP work, but they look kind'a "naked" or "basic" to me.

- mike

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Originally posted by mho:

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Originally posted by trouthunterdj:
BUT, I think a stock with a checkpiece is much classier. You can tell its custom from 100 yards.
ddj

I agree. Guns without a CP work, but they look kind'a "naked" or "basic" to me.

- mike

Yep, just take a gander at the 450 that John Farner has posted here and you'll see CLASS.

Don

Make it a CheekPeice and not a FacePeice. Style opinions differ put I prefer a relatively small Cheekpeice usually a pancake style that touches where your face does but doesn't cover up a lot more of the butt. Monte Carlo's usually look to large for me.....................DJ

I agree that a stock might look a "little naked" without a checkpiece.

How much weight would a small checkpiece add?

Thanks Again,

ddj

The M-70 featherweight does not have one.....and I sure like the ones I have.

I'm not at all sure they actually serve a function because we get along without them so easily.....but they sure look nice

The added weight is possibly a couple ounces.....

I can do without a cheekpiece. For a custom stock it adds "customness".

The check pieces on sxs shotguns seem "pointless"

I guess if I'm building a custom, I might as well custom it!

Here is a pretty little W.J. Jeffery takedown Mauser in 6.5X64 they seem to have left the cheek piece off of. I'm sure this was an accident . I've shouldered this rifle and have decided I could deal with it not having one. It would be hard but I could do it

Terry

My face usually misses them, it's a LOP problem I have, makes the cheekpiece more of a non-functioning extra add-on.

Outlandish or particularly high combs/cheekpieces detract from a rifle, IMO.

A nice tasteful oval cheekpiece works well, and is a good compromise for the pro/con of them.

Orginally, the cheek piece (the small Eurpoean type) was there to give added support to the lower part of the face upon mounting the gun....It is thoroughly practical...not there just to "look good" Added weight? That would take a drug scale to determine..

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Originally posted by djpaintles:
Make it a CheekPeice and not a FacePeice. Style opinions differ put I prefer a relatively small Cheekpeice usually a pancake style that touches where your face does but doesn't cover up a lot more of the butt.....................DJ

And with enough proportions to make it real world useful, whilst remaining tasteful.
...like you see on this basic rough ass truck gun,

My next stock won't have a cheekpiece. I don't think they add all that much to the stock and I don't like having to sand and finish around them.

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...like you see on this basic rough ass truck gun,

You and ForrestB must have some really unusual trucks!

I prefer guns without a cheekpiece. A nice piece of wood with a cheek piece is like a beautiful woman with a cigarette in her mouth. It detracts form the beauty. I know others have the opposite opinion. To each his own.

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Originally posted by 338zmag:
I prefer guns without a cheekpiece. A nice piece of wood with a cheek piece is like a beautiful woman with a cigarette in her mouth. It detracts form the beauty. I know others have the opposite opinion. To each his own.

I love a good woman with a cigarette!
Oh and cheekpieces too.
-Don

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Originally posted by 338zmag:
I prefer guns without a cheekpiece. A nice piece of wood with a cheek piece is like a beautiful woman with a cigarette in her mouth. It detracts form the beauty. I know others have the opposite opinion. To each his own.

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I love a good woman with a cigarette!
Oh and cheekpieces too.
-Don

Yes sir," To each is own"
I LIKE A TASTEFUL CHEEKPEICE, Ohhh, and two smokers laying horizonal...
SORRY, I just had to!