Hogging out lotsa wood.....

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I have a Remington XR-100 in 22-250 that I am going to turn into a 6BR F-Class rifle. It is essentially a Boyds Pepper Laminate stock. The barrel I bought for it is a 28" long, 1.20" OD, (No taper) Fluted stainless. Now I read the thread on turning a fluted barrel so I don't think that is the answer.

The question I have is this, If we hogged out quite a bit of wood from the fore end of the stock and cut the sides down by 1/4" +/- to accommodate the hefty barrel, will this adversely affect the stocks integral strength or be detrimental to accuracy in anyway since the barrel will be free floating anyhow.

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Richard

You can see pics of the rifle and the barrel in this thread:
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=169743
 
hog away man, the main key area for strength is the recoil lug. i am sure that you are going to bed both the rcoil lug and the action so you will be fine. if there won't be much meat left in the forestock you may want to consider a different stock. In all great theory you could cut the stock off just forward of the recoil lug and still shoot the rifle safely. If you are worried about not leaving enough meat on the forestock after you cut a new barrel channel you could always go way over and build the channel back up with some reinforced epoxy or fiberglass.
 
Just make sure the forend will support a rest or bipod and the rest don't matter except what looks great to you. You could remove all the stock around the barrel forward of the recoil lug and just have the bottom supporting the rifle and it would shoot the same. I've seen that done.
 
I don't know the diameter of the factory barrel at the end of the forend, but I suspect that the channel could be opened out to accept the new barrel. What is the factory barrel diameter there, and how wide is the top of the forend? Don't think it would be a good idea to have a forend that would flex excessively for rest shooting.
Might be just as easy to replace the stock, if it cannot be neatly opened out.
 
The barrel at the fore end is .885" and 1.23" at the chamber end (approx)

There is approx .274" of wood on either side at the forend and approx .170 near (1.5" from) the chamber end where the OD is the same as the new barrel

Where the vent holes are is hollow so the only other part I would be worried about is the first 3" of the stock where it would have to be scraped out underneath to accommodate the barrel size.

By looking at the stock more closely now I think the sides will be fairly thin but should not have to be cut down any. I don't know whether or not it would cause "excessive" flex which is what I am hoping for after all is said and done.

Buying another stock is just not an option right now, if I was going to go that route I would have just bought an action by itself and a F-Class stock but this was the more affordable way to go for me.
 
I had a similar circumstance on a heaby barrel 6.5-06 on the Boyds stock.

I dug it out and it left only a couple layers or so of laminate on either side of the barrel, plenty of wood underneath. I free glassed the receiver and the barrel channel leaving it free floating except for the first 2 inches in front of the receiver. Black acraglass matched the black laminate stock and also will add a bit of strength to the thinner laminate areas as well as to seal the stock from the elements. It turned out pretty decent.

good luck
 
Open out the channel carefully, don't remove more along the sides than necessary, and it should work fine, and not look bad. The way Boyd stocks are machined internally reduces the amount of wood that will need to be removed under the barrel.
 
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