Boyd's is finally making stocks for the Ruger American Centerfire

[steveNChunter]

I've been holding off on getting an RAR because of their flimsy stock, but now that problem is solved. May have to pick up an All-Weather in .270 so I can put it in one of these stocks.

http://www.boydsgunstocks.com/product.htm?pid=110142&cat=1222

 

[Mosin-Marauder]

I have yet to see a Ruger American (rim fire or centerfire) that had a flimsy stock. They all seemed solid to me.

 

[steveNChunter]

Grab the forearm and barrel and see how easy they are to squeeze together. I've got bowls that say "Cool Whip" on the side that are more rigid.

Better yet, try shooting an RAR off a bipod or off a bag that is close to the front of the stock. You're going to have barrel to stock contact.

 

[tahunua001]

as much as I would love to encourage the exaggeration of plastic rifle stock quality inferiority, I think I'll just comment on the boyds instead. I must say that this makes me pretty happy. if they opened the field to thumbholes it might just tempt me enough to get a RAR and slap on a boyds stock.

 

[upstate81]

Now if they would only make one for the Thompson Center Venture

 

[Mobuck]

Why do folks continue to buy an economy rifle made with the most economical materials and then spend piles of money to make it something else? Why not just buy a higher class rifle to begin with?

 

[mxsailor803]

Thats a easy answer, some of us like to tinker. Its more fun to me to take a "cheap" rifle and make it more accurate than a "higher class" rifle.

 

[tahunua001]

nothing against tinkering, I have done it to a few cheapos myself, but I think that he was getting at, why do people buy the cheapest guns on the market and then proceed to complain about the cheap materials. it's a cheap gun, made cheap for a reason. if you slap good wood on it, you still have a plastic box mag, bolt housing, and trigger guard, and those will likely remain areas to complain about. if you want wood and metal, buy a Ruger M77, the price to spend on sprucing up the american kindof negates any savings.

now if you're after to tinker, that's a fine and dandy but most tinkerers aren't the ones complaining about the materials.

 

[Orion6]

Now if they would only make one for the Thompson Center Venture

They do - been out a couple weeks.

 

[steveNChunter]

I get the whole "you can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse" philosophy, but I already own a Savage Axis with a Boyd's stock that regularly shoots 100 yard three-shot groups in the .2's. It's the most accurate rifle I own, and I own a couple semi-custom Remington 700's that have been rebarreled and bedded. Total investment is over $1000 on each of those rifles. The lowly Axis still outshoots them. And it hasn't even been bedded. Before the Boyd's stock it was a 3/4-1 MOA rifle at best. So was restocking that cheap rifle worth it for me? Definitely. Who's to say I can't get similar results with an RAR once I get a good load worked up for it?

if you want wood and metal, buy a Ruger M77, the price to spend on sprucing up the american kindof negates any savings.

What if you can get the RAR to be more accurate than the M77 (as some already are)? Is it worth it then?

 

[HKFan9]

I love when people want to replace the stock on an economy rifle with one that costs 1/3 the price of the gun. I have high end rifles but I picked up a .30-06 RAR to have a cheap knock around gun for bear or deer hunting in bad terrain when I don't want to take one of my Kimbers or Sako's.

It groups fine for a $300 hunting rifle... I didn't buy it for the looks. They aren't meant to be target rifles, so the flexible fore-end is a non issue.

 

[Unlicensed Dremel]

Now if they would only make one for the Thompson Center Venture

Nowwwww - you'd be cookin' with butane!

Nothing's gonna fix the ridiculously-easy-to-accidentally-drop mag of the Ruger American rifle. Except maybe epoxy.

 

[tahunua001]

What if you can get the RAR to be more accurate than the M77 (as some already are)? Is it worth it then?

I was talking more of the griping over the "flimsy" plastic stocks, it's cheap, designed to be cheap, if you don't like plastic, get a gun built with the materials you want. you're also facing luck of the draw if you're trying to get a RAR to outshoot a M77. lots of people get MOA or better from both rifles, some people get much worse than that from both rifles, it depends on the individual rifle and also the individual fine tuning skills of the shooter, a person can pillar bed a RAR or M77 for a few pennies and get either to shoot darned good groups if he knows what he's doing but the attention that he's going to spend on one, is not necessarily the attention he'd have to spend on the other to get it to shoot equally as well.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

how does Boyd's handle the plastic trigger guard ??? isn't it molded into the stock of the Ruger American ???

 

[taylorce1]

You get a new trigger guard when you buy a Boyd's stock. They're smart enough to include it in the price of the stock.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

do you know if it's metal or plastic ???

 

[Z400ACDC]

I really like wood stocks but I don't want to touch my .223RAR. It shoots so good I would be afraid I would hurt the accuracy.