altering a McMillan stock
- Thread starter Jayph
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depending on how the receiver part of the action was assembled you could be removing much of the stiffer stock component and cause a flaw, i have not cut up a remington one before. better option, sell the short action mcmillan stock take your money buy a Robertson Composite and be twice as happy. Buying Canadian and better quality!
just my 2 cents
just my 2 cents
It's an a-5 3 way butt marbled in 34 od 33 black 33 tan Inleted for Remington 700 SA with bdl bottom metal and m40 contour barrel.
I missed being able to change my inletting by one week at mcmillan they did it last week. It's due to me in april and will likely be on the EE just gonna suck waiting for another one
If done properly, it will work out fine. Fill the recoil lug and the front screw hole, and machine it out forward to take the long action parts. You will utilize the existing inletting from the magazine box back. You may have to touch up around the ejection port, depending on the pattern, otherwise you should not see anything externally.
McMillans are just a fiberglass shell with epoxy filling. You will not compromise the strength as long as you use a fill material that bonds to, and is as tough as the original fill. Devcon steel or aluminum will work fine.
I'm with you on this one.
They sell stocks that are not inletted at all and can be made to fit most any action. You'll eventually need to bed the rifle anyways, so some grinding and cutting will be involved.
They say the McHale stock is not available for a mauser action - kinda funny since it was they who produced em for the Parker Hale M85! I specifically asked them about this, as a friend of mine had a wood stocked M85 years back. They told me I'd have to do the inletting myself.
Cheers, Carl
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
From McMillan . . .
MAUSER INTERARMS MARK X
This classic style stock has a straight comb, and a small cheekpiece with some cast-off. The forend will accept custom barrels up to a #5 contour. It has crisp checkering appropriate for a classic stock. We offer completely finished "custom-drop-in" stocks for the Interarms Mark X action only. We do have inletting programs for most of the various FN and 98 variations, but because of the many styles of bottom metal custom bold handles and safeties, we do not offer pre-finished drop-in stocks for them. We only offer 95% inletted blanks for gunsmiths to finish fitting and finishing, or we offer full installations in our shop.
ok,
they have a laminated fiberglass cloth / epoxy shell. some of them have kevlar or graphite.
they are filled with epoxy. depending on the application and area of the stock, the epoxy is reinforced with fiberglass strand, or glass microbaloons.
either way, filling the front screw hole and recoil lug on a short action inlet, then machining the stock forward for a long action, will result in the exact same thing as an original long action inlet.
