McMillian arrived!!! **PICS ADDED**

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Well my McMillian stock for my Sako 85 30-06 arrived :dancingbanana:

Is it ever nice, fits and feels awesome. I went with the Sako Hunter design in the McMillian Edge stock, but went with boring black for the color. Just need to get it in now and pillar bedded.

I think this is the first McMillian in Canada for the Sako 85, from what I was told. Hoping to get another in the future for my 25-06 finnlite.

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If it is a McMillan, it doesn't require pillar-bedding.

You'll just be wasting your money.

Quoted from Kelly McMillan himself:

"I'm often asked by customers who would like to bed their own stock but lack the confidence to try "pillar" bedding, "Do you need pillars?"

Because of the construction techniques and materials we use in making our stocks it is not necessary to use pillars. With the exception of benchrest stocks which are almost always glued in and use a lighter fill in the action area than all other stocks, pillars are unnecessary.

Test have proven that the materials we use to fill the action area of of stocks have less than 1% compression at 100lb psi. What that means is that there is not way you are going to be able to torque your guards screws tight enough to compress the material under the action. Why do we put them in every bedding job we do when installing our stocks? Because it's state of the art. It's what has become the excepted way to do things. It's not a fad. It is a valuable technique that is necessary when bedding stocks that use a different method of construction (which almost all other synthetic manufacturers do). It's just that with ours it is not really necessary."

Source: http://yarchive.net/gun/rifle/pillar_bedding.html

He gives quite a detailed account of why pillar bedding is used, and why they don't require it with their stocks.
 
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Very Nice! I am in the process of ordering the same stock for my 30-06 Model 85.

How does the stock fit (LOP)? Did you measure from the first or second joint (starting from the nail)?

What was the waiting time from order to delivery?

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Tim
 
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Very Nice! I am in the process of ordering the same stock for my 30-06 Model 85.

How does the stock fit (LOP)? Did you measure from the first or second joint (starting from the nail)?

What was the waiting time from order to delivery?

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Tim
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Tim,

McMillian won't accept an order from you unless they have the same action in house to make the stock off of...or are you going through the paperwork to send you rifle to them to have it made? IF so that would be great because I want to get another made for my 25-06 finnlite.

I measured from the second joint for my length of pull, but I took off some to account for wearing heavy clothes in winter.

Wait time was 7 months because they had to make it off of an actually action...they dont and will not be making molds for the Sako 85 apparently due to costs.

I love the new stock, made it a completely different rifle...kinda spoils you.

Let me know if you are sending yours in or have someone in the US that will for you.

Thanks,
Rob
 
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