I recently bought an "Ultra-Walnut" stock like the ones offered by Remington. Our deer season ended last Saturday, so I decided to pillar-bed my sporter-barrelled action into it. (The previous stock is a take-off Sendero stock.) I used home-made pillars from 1/2" dia. steel tubing available from Home Depot. The bedding material is Devcon.
Anyway, bedding the action and 1 1/2" up the barrel channel, then free-floating the rest of the barrel, it came out very nice. The best part is when I sighted it in yesterday and found the POI within one MOA of the prior zero!!! I figured it would be within a few MOA, but that shows the consistency of the bedding systems, especially the free-floated barrel. The Sendero had been skim-coated with Acraglas to make a perfect fit, so apparently the two systems were pretty comparable.
The Ultra-Walnut stock has two layers of carbon fiber separated by about 1/4" of wood and laid between two slabs of pretty nice walnut. It appears to be quite stable and was a bit difficult to drill for the pillars. My pillar drill is a piece of the same tubing with saw teeth cut into the end, using a cutoff disk in a Dremel.
Accuracy is very close to what the HS-Sendero offered, but the new stock is really nice-looking compared with the almost bed-liner appearance of the other stock.
Stockysstocks.com is where I picked up the Ultra-Walnut (1/3 off).
Anyway, bedding the action and 1 1/2" up the barrel channel, then free-floating the rest of the barrel, it came out very nice. The best part is when I sighted it in yesterday and found the POI within one MOA of the prior zero!!! I figured it would be within a few MOA, but that shows the consistency of the bedding systems, especially the free-floated barrel. The Sendero had been skim-coated with Acraglas to make a perfect fit, so apparently the two systems were pretty comparable.
The Ultra-Walnut stock has two layers of carbon fiber separated by about 1/4" of wood and laid between two slabs of pretty nice walnut. It appears to be quite stable and was a bit difficult to drill for the pillars. My pillar drill is a piece of the same tubing with saw teeth cut into the end, using a cutoff disk in a Dremel.
Accuracy is very close to what the HS-Sendero offered, but the new stock is really nice-looking compared with the almost bed-liner appearance of the other stock.
Stockysstocks.com is where I picked up the Ultra-Walnut (1/3 off).