Wildcat composites Winchester

BigUglyMan said:
If the end goal is to build a truly lightweight rifle, why would a person not start with a truly lightweight action? Yes, you can get a Model 70 reasonably light, but to use the lightest stock available on the market to build a rifle that won't be the lightest that you can produce is somewhat counter intuitive. You end up with a rifle that, unless you shorten the barrel dramatically, will be strangely barrel heavy and won't handle as well as it could.

Think running "E" load range tires on your SUV. Sure, you can, but it's not going to make a real difference to what you an do with the platform as a whole. Sure, you could tear out the running gear and upgrade it to 1-ton axles and suspension, but you still don't have a 1-ton pickup.
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As pointed out... They don't gotta be ultralight.... That's just an option Stuart offers. They're good stocks...if I were putting a Win into one it would be like the photo above (wildcat rem stock inlet for a win)... I'd hate myself if I spent good money on that schnabel thing...
 
chuck nelson said:
30 ozs +
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Don't care if it is 20 ounces or 40 ounces... I know that Ultralight is all the rage, even in Ontario where guys are quadding to their treestands (???), but weight is on the bottom of my priority list... if I hunted vertically rather than horizontally my priority list would likely get a shuffle.

I was in the gun shop the other day, listening to a blowhard bragging about how light his rifle is... I know the guys he hunts with, so it is ironic that he hasn't walked more than 50 feet from his truck in 20 years.
 
Here you. Sorry about the quality, it's a iPad pic of another computer screen...
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hoytcanon said:
Don't care if it is 20 ounces or 40 ounces... I know that Ultralight is all the rage, even in Ontario where guys are quadding to their treestands (???), but weight is on the bottom of my priority list... if I hunted vertically rather than horizontally my priority list would likely get a shuffle.

I was in the gun shop the other day, listening to a blowhard bragging about how light his rifle is... I know the guys he hunts with, so it is ironic that he hasn't walked more than 50 feet from his truck in 20 years.
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I never said anything about light, heavy, or something in between.
 
That picture of the rifle built by Corlanes was a Winchester stock. I've been in his shop when it was in Edmonton many times and that is the pattern he used then. He has no doubt added more molds since then.

Neil
 
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