My New Boyd's Ruger 77 stock

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warbirdlover

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Here it is. These pics make it look brown due to the flash. It's not. It's pepper (gray, black and white) laminate and the laser checkered areas don't look brown either. Now I can go to work!! Will post pics of finished rifle but it might be awhile. I'm not botching this up! (Click again on the pics to enlarge them after they are open).

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Do you have any postal scales, or something to get an accurate weight on the stock. I like the looks of the laminated, especially the checkered ones, but have always been reluctant primarily because they tend to be so heavy.

That color will look great on stainless.
 
I'll see if I can get it weighed. My brother has a (kind of rare) M77 Hawkeye stainless which has a peened finish vs. my Mk II's shiny finish. It's rare because it's in a regular walnut Ruger stock. He bought it NIB from GunBroker. They only made a couple like that and it's the nicest M77 I've ever seen. I'm hoping mine looks almost as good. Kind of like that grey wolf Sako 85 LOL!! :D
 

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Are you going to glassbed the action ? Three of my rifles have glassbeded Boyd stocks. There was an increase in accuracy when the action with about one inch of the barrel was glassbedded. The rest of the barrel was free floated.
 
The stock weighs 1-1/2 lb. It feels lighter then the skeleton (paddle) stock I sold.
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If it really does weigh 1.5 lbs it is lighter. Most laminated stocks weigh 3-3.5 lbs, so that seems too light. Are you sure it is not 2.5 lbs.? The factory laminated Remington Mt rifle stocks come in at 2.5 and are the lightest laminated I've weighed. Most of the Factory synthetics and walnut stocks run 2-2.5 lbs. Very few lightweight aftermarket synthetics come in under 1.5.
 
Are you going to glassbed the action ? Three of my rifles have glassbeded Boyd stocks. There was an increase in accuracy when the action with about one inch of the barrel was glassbedded. The rest of the barrel was free floated.
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If it really does weigh 1.5 lbs it is lighter. Most laminated stocks weigh 3-3.5 lbs, so that seems too light. Are you sure it is not 2.5 lbs.? The factory laminated Remington Mt rifle stocks come in at 2.5 and are the lightest laminated I've weighed. Most of the Factory synthetics and walnut stocks run 2-2.5 lbs. Very few lightweight aftermarket synthetics come in under 1.5.
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We did it like this. Got on an accurate bathroom scale. Weight 252. Took stock, weight 253, again 254 and back and forth between 253-254. Put down stock, weight 252. Did this over and over and it "averaged" 1-1/2 lb. Best I could do and at most would weigh 2 lbs. I don't know what the skeleton, paddle stock weighed (it's sold now) but it certainly felt heavier then this laminated IMHO. You should be able to contact Boyd's and ask them. I couldn't find the weight listed on their website.
 
Be interested in seeing how it turns out! I'm thinking about getting one to replace the cheapo plastic stock on my Vanguard.
 
Nice!

War Bird Lover--that checkering looks nice! I may get that on my next Boyd's stock.

I highly recommend glass-bedding the action into the stock. It's not hard to do--Just take your time. It'll take 2 sessions to do right--You Dremel out, say, the recoil stud area and part of the tang area, glass that, drop in the action (WELL coated with release compound!!!) and secure with a wrap of surgical tubing. When the bedding has hardened, you pull the action, Dremel out the rest of the tang area and the couple inches of bbl to bed, glass that, replace the action (again, WELL coated with more release compound!!) re-wrap with surgical tubing, and let it set.

By doing the bedding in 2 sessions, and choosing where to dremel and bed with care, the alignment of the action/bbl in the stock is never changed, and the rifle when finished, looks exactly as it did before you started.

When you're dremeling the stock, you make an undercut, for the glass to grab into, also.

And if you screw the whole thing up, just leave the screwed-up bedding in there and start dremeling all over again--new bedding bonds to old bedding just as well as to wood.

It really isn't hard, but I admit the first and second time I did it I was VERY nervous about the results, until it was all done.

The most important thing is to put release compound liberally anywhere you do not want a bond. To be extra-sure, I over-coated the release compound with vaseline. It all worked, and my Mauser M-48 is now a scout rifle that shoots better than I do.
 
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I'm probably just going to have the gunsmiths at Gander do it. Everything I touch these days turns into a disaster LOL!! :D

But I DID get the new spring for the trigger and put it in. Dropped it from almost 6 lbs. to a respectable 4 lbs. I got that right anyway.

http://www.erniethegunsmith.com/catalog/i22.html

That was a piece of cake to do. I think I could even put in a new trigger myself (honing the safety pin and everything).
 
Nice looking stock. Both my Boyds are Nutmeg (brown). Looks more like a traditional walnut stock.

I was pleasantly surprised by the weight of both. Much lighter than they look.
 
warbird

that stock looks SWEET !! mine doesn't have the checkering,
it looks good, hows it feel ?? my Spanish M93 in 7x57mauser.
barrel is freefloated from the reciever ring forward.
 

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Feels great but not nearly as nice as cut checkering. I'm going to free float mine to start and if it doesn't shoot as well as it did with the paddle stock (cloverleaf sub-MOA groups) I'll just throw some shims near the end of the stock.
 
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