McMillian arrived!!! **PICS ADDED**

mackillan said:
Wha( would you suggest?
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Sako Hunter. I have one coming for a Rem 700 L/A, should be here in a few weeks. It is basically the same profile, but has a thinner contoured fore-end than the Remington Hunter. The Rem takes up to a #8 contoured barrel, but the Sako only takes up to #4...

You can order from McMillan or from 24hourcampfire.com

FWIW, any stock I buy from now on from McMillan will be the Sako Hunter profile...Love it.
 
blargon said:
Sako Hunter. I have one coming for a Rem 700 L/A, should be here in a few weeks. It is basically the same profile, but has a thinner contoured fore-end than the Remington Hunter. The Rem takes up to a #8 contoured barrel, but the Sako only takes up to #4...

You can order from McMillan or from 24hourcampfire.com

FWIW, any stock I buy from now on from McMillan will be the Sako Hunter profile...Love it.
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The Sako Hunter is what mine is so the pic will give you an idea what it looks like. I love how it feels now, much better than the factory straight style stock. My next one will be exactly the same.
 
MapleSugar said:
If it is a McMillan, it doesn't require pillar-bedding.

You'll just be wasting your money.

Quoted from Kelly McMillan himself:

"I'm often asked by customers who would like to bed their own stock but lack the confidence to try "pillar" bedding, "Do you need pillars?"

Because of the construction techniques and materials we use in making our stocks it is not necessary to use pillars. With the exception of benchrest stocks which are almost always glued in and use a lighter fill in the action area than all other stocks, pillars are unnecessary.

Test have proven that the materials we use to fill the action area of of stocks have less than 1% compression at 100lb psi. What that means is that there is not way you are going to be able to torque your guards screws tight enough to compress the material under the action. Why do we put them in every bedding job we do when installing our stocks? Because it's state of the art. It's what has become the excepted way to do things. It's not a fad. It is a valuable technique that is necessary when bedding stocks that use a different method of construction (which almost all other synthetic manufacturers do). It's just that with ours it is not really necessary."

Source: http://yarchive.net/gun/rifle/pillar_bedding.html

He gives quite a detailed account of why pillar bedding is used, and why they don't require it with their stocks.
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Checked into this with McMillian and the Edge stocks all have pillars put into them during manufacturing so they just need to be bedded.
 
harv3589 said:
Checked into this with McMillian and the Edge stocks all have pillars put into them during manufacturing so they just need to be bedded.
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One of the "pillars" in my first EDGE came out. They aren't much more than an aluminum arrow shaft in thickness and are smooth sided. Since then I've had the EDGE pillars replaced with beefier aluminum pillars equipped with the standard relief grooves cut around the outside. Makes me feel better.
 
chuck nelson said:
One of the "pillars" in my first EDGE came out. They aren't much more than an aluminum arrow shaft in thickness and are smooth sided. Since then I've had the EDGE pillars replaced with beefier aluminum pillars equipped with the standard relief grooves cut around the outside. Makes me feel better.
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I will have that done then Chuck, thanks for the input! Rather spend alittle more up front and not have to make 2 trips to the smith and pay twice.
 
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