Mcrs tactical stocks, who's got em

Had considered ordering one previously but went with someone else.

A fellow competitor at the SPRA had one on order at the end of the season. I look forward to next spring to see it and get his feedback.
 
I have one of them it isn't clear coated yet im still sanding it. Its the lowboy/ speedy hybrid on his website. I will post pictures when it finished.
 
I had ordered 4 of his tactical composite stocks for some builds we were doing last year. All of them were either inletted wrong, had bubbles or warping and the long action could not cycle the bolt with the cheek piece raised because the cheek was not notched out. My single shot was inletted for a BDL, my Tikka had a big divet in the palm swell and when I addressed all of these he was very ignorant to deal with. All of the adjustable cheeks had a large 1/8th to 1/4" gap from the CNC bit he uses to cut them out. They don't fit flush like a McMillan or Manners. Really poor craftsman ship. I would not use one of his fiberglass stocks.

His wood stocks seem much better and Bob Galloway has been using them for a while. Problem is he cant get any laminate so your only choices are solid woods. He makes a lot of high end promises and doesn't really seem to come through on them. If it wasn't so hard to get stocks up here, I would never even consider him as an option.

I just ordered another McMillan for my single shot build. Ill suffer the lead time rather than deal with MCRS again.

Take a look at Star Shooter. They are 12 months right now, but much better quality.
 
Schecter 81 said:
I had ordered 4 of his tactical composite stocks for some builds we were doing last year. All of them were either inletted wrong, had bubbles or warping and the long action could not cycle the bolt with the cheek piece raised because the cheek was not notched out. My single shot was inletted for a BDL, my Tikka had a big divet in the palm swell and when I addressed all of these he was very ignorant to deal with. All of the adjustable cheeks had a large 1/8th to 1/4" gap from the CNC bit he uses to cut them out. They don't fit flush like a McMillan or Manners. Really poor craftsman ship. I would not use one of his fiberglass stocks.

His wood stocks seem much better and Bob Galloway has been using them for a while. Problem is he cant get any laminate so your only choices are solid woods. He makes a lot of high end promises and doesn't really seem to come through on them. If it wasn't so hard to get stocks up here, I would never even consider him as an option.

I just ordered another McMillan for my single shot build. Ill suffer the lead time rather than deal with MCRS again.
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This pretty much was our experience, which saddens me greatly as we tried to help Kris get it together . The hope being that a decent Canadian alternative could be available.
The quality of his fiberglass stocks was at best poor. I did not bother with his wood as we don't do wood.
 
Ordered one over a year ago, still haven't seen it, or even herd from the guy, every time I called him he'd tell me two weeks out, I finally just gave up and ordered a McMillan. Would be nice to have a Canadian made stock but it won't be mcrs tactical for me.
 
I ordered one last summer. The inletting wasn't perfect (barrel isn't straight in the forearm) and the bolt hits the cheek piece when cycled (Rem 700 short action). However, it still functions fine and shoots a lot better than the factory stock. On the plus side, it was 4 weeks from order to shipped and $500 cheaper than a Manners, so I'm OK with it for my 223.

Like ATRS I wish Kris the best, but he needs to fix the bugs in his product and get better organized.
 
His wood stocks seem better then his fibreglass ones. I dont think you would want a stock made out of any of the laminates you can get now a days. They are so high in moisture that they will twist just leaving them leaning up against the wall over night.
 
mudpro said:
His wood stocks seem better then his fibreglass ones. I dont think you would want a stock made out of any of the laminates you can get now a days. They are so high in moisture that they will twist just leaving them leaning up against the wall over night.
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That is the story Kris will give you. Or maybe Kris just cant get any laminates. Not sure I would trust any of his home laminating work either. Seems Boyds has no problem getting their laminates and I have used several of theirs without any issues. Precision Rifle and Tools (which he has copied) does tons of laminate. They don't seem to have any issues. Its a very convincing story the first time you hear and when he shows you that twisted laminate he has in his shed, but after dealing with him, I wouldn't take everything he says to heart.

On the plus side, your stock looks like it came out really nice. Hopefully it is straight and didn't take your smith too much work to finish up. Especially since he is asking $980 for an 90% stock.
 
Ya I cant say where he was getting his supply of laminte but it was almost green wood glued together. Maybe he just has a bad supplier. Didnt take much work for him to finish it. Mine is a hybrid with the speedy style grip and back and a lowboy front end. It turned out good. I think he is slowly getting better, i will say that i wouldnt be in a rush if your ordering from Chris.
 
A little big for my tastes i believe its around 3/16" would be nice if he figured out a different way to cut it out other then an end mill.
 
I have 8 of the wood ones and they are really nice, from a speedy F -CLASS I modified to the FTR popular designs by Eric, all are nice, sorry not post pictures. sopme were done in bubinga, autrailian lacewood and so on

Jefferson
 
Thank you Jefferson, Mudpro, 308BAR for the support

I think we have to do it soon or later ... So here is..

First of all WE ARE SORRY FOR THE VERY FEW (2 unhappy CUSTOMERS).
As in every business some customers will be unhappy whatever you do. We do all our best to make everybody happy, and if the customer is not satisfied with our products we stay behind the product and redo the stock on our cost or if the customer wants he can walk away at no cost at all.

As Jefferson and ALL the match shooters who order high end custom match stocks from us - ALL are satisfied Customers with the STOCK DESIGN and QUALITY (shooting national record and winning matches after matches with our stock) -

I THINK THE FACT SPEAKS BETTER THEN few WORDS on forums.

Yes we got busy then ever (we have to thank for our loyal customers who trust our work and quality).
Our turnaround time increased up to 4-5 weeks and sometimes even longer 2-3 month.
When you order a fully custom match stock it involves a lot more then factory production stocks (what are mass manufactured) and always will take more time.

For the past 3 years we made A LOT OF STOCKS and having 3 stocks (composite) with some issues the percentage is less then 1%. We think this is good. the customer who order them mentioned about the issued, but when you make composite stocks you can not fix some of the problems (special is the stock is inletted).
On that particular case - we could not fix the issue and the customer rejected the stocks) so we have to recover the loss and we sold them to somebody else at discount price.
WE NEVER CHARGED OR TOOK MONEY from "Schecter 81" for this composite stocks. They rejected the stocks and based on the facts we sold them at discount.
"Schecter 81" buddy got us on the phone and HE GOT VERY ROOT, AND UNPROFESSIONAL throwing threads (we did not have business with him at all, we wore dealing at the time just with "Schecter 81").
We offered to redo other stocks for them but THEY REJECTED THE OFFER AND WALK AWAY.

So this are the facts, and now you know both sided of the story. Behind a computer, under a forum alias everybody can complain without knowing all the facts, and giving advised on quality of the product.

BUT THE 99% OF HAPPY CUSTOMERS AND hundreds of stocks ARE SPEAKING laud and clear over the 1%.

Again we thank you for all the support, and we ALWAYS STAY BEHIND OUR PRODUCTS AND OUR SERVICES.
We are committed to produce amazing match F Class Stocks, at very high grade of quality on customers specification.


Regards
MCRS Tactical
 
Nice to see MCRS speak to this thread. It is 100% true that they did not take any money on the stocks we ordered for the 4 builds we where doing and we rejected the stocks as they were all either inletted incorrectly or had major defects.

It was unfortunate that one of our customers did phone and did unfortunately get very ignorant with MCRS. I can't speak to that as that was between two other individuals, however I do recognize the frustration with trying to complete a build on a schedule and finding out you put faith in a manufacturer that let you down. In the end, the MCRS composite product was a 4 out of 4 failure.

I believe there have been other businesses that reviewed using MCRS as a Canadian manufacturer to supply their line and had no luck with the quality either. (ATRS)

As I said, I believe people are seeing that the wood and laminate options are more reasonable quality, but with our experience with the product and service we have gone back to the conventional sources for stocks. It is unfortunate because what Canada needs is a high quality stock manufacturer.

Star Shooter out of Quebec is doing great work but the lead times are 12-14mths.
Hopefully one day we see Ian Robertson back in the game....
 
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