Boyds M14/M1A Laminate Stocks

I talked to Boyd today ... so what's the deal with these? How much fitting and custom work has to be done to get a Norc onto it?

The girl made it seem that no matter if you get Type 1 or 2 you'll be filing and fitting?!

What's the advantage of getting one over the other (type 1 / 2)?
 
robstar said:
How much fitting and custom work has to be done to get a Norc onto it?
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When I first picked mine up it wouldn't fit at all...I've fussed with it for probably an hour or so with a file and dremel and it's still not 100% althought it's getting close. I picked mine up second hand off the EE so I don't know if it's a 1 or 2.
 
So is this the same with the walnut stocks do I have to sand and file the hell out of it to get it to fit?

It says factory fit if its not going to fit I wont buy it
 
It makes sense that Boyd's would sell their stocks like that. You want a tight fit! That's the point of bedding rifles: To make a 100% tight fit on every non-moving component in the rifle.
 
What do you guys think about staining your wood stock and whats involved. I'm assuming they come with a varnish that would have to be sanded down and then apply a stain and revarnish? Then steel wool the reapplied varnish. Has anyone tried this?
 
None of the Boyds stocks comes finished, you have to fit, sand and stain, oil, seal, varnish or whatever flips your switch. I sanded mine a little and used BLO on a laminate stock. Still in one piece. Varnish doesnt do it for me!
 
TimC said:
None of the Boyds stocks comes finished, you have to fit, sand and stain, oil, seal, varnish or whatever flips your switch. I sanded mine a little and used BLO on a laminate stock. Still in one piece. Varnish doesnt do it for me!
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I'm not 100% sure since I picked mine up second hand, but I think mine came fully finished from the factory.
 
They do come fully finished, you can also buy unfinished ones.

There is some fitting involved on all of them because you want a tight fit as cancer mentioned above.
 
Pity it wasnt an option they offered me! Mind you as I said I dont do varnish. They did offer different barrel channel finishing but only set patterns so if like me you had a rebarrelled target P14 you got something a .22 would have needed fitting to! I actually asked them not to cut out the mag housing as I wanted a blind box and it was pretty much take it or leave it as thats how we make them, a bit ford model T!
 
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