boyds m14 stocks

I got an unfinished stock from Boyds, then spent a couple years picking up USGI stock fittings and metal whenever I spotted something for "as close to free as my cold, cheap, Scottish heart" could accept. The wood was unfinished in the sense that it hadn't been oiled, but was otherwise complete and sanded smooth as a baby's bottom.

The USGI stock metal, and then the m305 barreled action itself, were drop in fit without any adjustment at all.



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Still planning on replacing the upper hand guard and scoping it, but very happy with the stock and bedding of the unfinished stock, which was about 1/2 the cost of a finished stock, and not hard at all to oil.

From your picture, you have not properly fit the stock to the rifle yet.
You will notice the area of the right hand side of the stock that the receiver sits on, where the track for the charging handle rides along, is not sitting flush with the bottom of the shelf of the receiver: there is about 1 to 1.5 inches that needs to be shaved off the stock just in front of the heel of the receiver as you look at the rifle from the side
 
ive since gotten my hands on a boyds stock, though the butt of the stock is fatter than the butt plate, is there any other plate/butt piece i can get that would fill it out better?

No. What you can do (but it's not essential) is shape the wood at the butt end of the stock so that it blends with the butt plate better. I used a file and varying grits of sandpaper.
I also had an extra butt plate that I used as a guide so that I wouldn't risk damaging the finish on the butt plate I planned to install on the stock once finished.
 
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