Boyd's Stocks - shipping to Canada

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I've seen folks on the board who have stocks from Boyd's in the US. Do they ship to Canada?

I see on their website that they only accept orders from outside the US if it's over $3000 :eek:

Will they ship to Canada if you ask them nicely? :)

Many thanks.
 
When I ordered mine, they wouldhip, but only if the stock you wanted was under the magic $100. Luckily they had the end run of their M1a/M14 stocks on sale, so I got one. That was back near the beginning of the year, not sure what the story is now.
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
Yes they do, but they are garbage, Boyds is a little better fit, but not much.
Plan for LOTS of fitting and finishing.
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Here is my Richards Microfit stock...It does not look like garbage to me, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder:confused:

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roberti11 said:
Here is my Richards Microfit stock...It does not look like garbage to me, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder:confused:

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It is not that they can not be made into a thing of beauty, but the fit is pathetic and number of hours of work to make it fit and beutiful is ridiculous.
These are photos of a stock specifically ordered for a Sako 75 from Richards Lousyfit, I do not consider this to be a drop in , in any way as it was supposed to be. Crudely made, yes. Will it in 10 or 20 hours be a thing of beauty? Yes.

Richards , like Boyds sell many finished stocks that are "ok" but not great, the price is reasonable, many are finished stocks destined for makers like Savage, Ruger and Remington. If 1 of those is what you are after, fine, but their unfinished stocks don't come close to fitting what they claim.
If you have the skill and time, and your labor has no value, great, for those who pay guys like me $100.00 per hour to make a stock that was ordered for a specific model of firearm and then find that it will take 10 hours to actually make it into a stock, not a crude chunk of lumber, Microfit is a misnomer, hence my considering them garbage.

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crappy trie should sell those stocks from richards and boyds

I got 4 into canada 3 years ago

all junk all junk all junk

my friend told me one was so crooked (top to bottom) you could not fix it,

the 2nd was so crooked side to side it looked like the gun was canted for highpower when sitting on the table,

the 3rd was nice but took 11 hours to finish (bodyman did the work) so I gave him the stock for his work and he sold it for $225

the 4th would take the same to finish so I sold it for a micrometer,


BEST $1000 I WASTED IN A LONG TIME



so buy finished or be prepared. There was a guy in southern alberta that sold a 1022 stock that was beautiful but i sat on my hands when it was offered for sale at first cause the price was double what it sold for on the net later.



also I have imported lots of stuff through rick and it sure is nice when leaving his business, not having to look to see if THEY are behind you yet.


Jefferson
 
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Aah yes, the famous, "THEY" , Jefferson you may want to patent that acronym before "THEY" or "THEM" do.
It seems that the various government entities are running out of alphabet soup initials to confuse us all with.
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
It is not that they can not be made into a thing of beauty, but the fit is pathetic and number of hours of work to make it fit and beutiful is ridiculous.
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It depends on what you are trying to achieve, I agree that these stocks need work, mine came rough, and I did the finish and the fit.
The point for me is that I love to do this work for myself, it is my hobby, and at the time this was the only stock I could find with this wood, in a thumbhole that would fit a Ruger 77/22. This was my sons first rifle, and it meant a lot more to scrounge the parts and bulid it myself, rather than have a gunsmith do it for me. Did I save $$.. of course not, my time is worth more at work, but did I have fun, absolutely.

All of my rifles are pillar bedded, and I do the work myself, so reworking the stock is inherent in the project. I agree that if I had intended to simply drop an action into this stock it would not have worked.
 
roberti11 said:
It depends on what you are trying to achieve, I agree that these stocks need work, mine came rough, and I did the finish and the fit.
The point for me is that I love to do this work for myself, it is my hobby, and at the time this was the only stock I could find with this wood, in a thumbhole that would fit a Ruger 77/22. This was my sons first rifle, and it meant a lot more to scrounge the parts and bulid it myself, rather than have a gunsmith do it for me. Did I save $$.. of course not, my time is worth more at work, but did I have fun, absolutely.

All of my rifles are pillar bedded, and I do the work myself, so reworking the stock is inherent in the project. I agree that if I had intended to simply drop an action into this stock it would not have worked.
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If you know going in that you have your work cut out for is fine, but nowhere in the various ads have I found anything that states "really how much" work is really needed to make these chunks of lumber into a fine stock.
I guess that was more the point I was trying to make.
Anything could be turned into a beautiful stock with enough time and labor, or money.:)
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
If you know going in that you have your work cut out for is fine, but nowhere in the various ads have I found anything that states "really how much" work is really needed to make these chunks of lumber into a fine stock.
I guess that was more the point I was trying to make.
Anything could be turned into a beautiful stock with enough time and labor, or money.:)
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I agree !:)
 
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