My FUNGLY, but functional M14 stock

Good Job Sir.Nice to see people using the noggin instead of just laying down the plastic and waiting for the post.It is a member of the three F club.Function before Fashion or your F###XXD
 
Thanks for the honest feedback guys. The only thing I was a bit dissapointed in on the stock was that I was expecting the truck bed liner to go on much thicker and actually cover up the roughness much more. I could have sanded and shaped it nicer, but I thought it wouldn't be necessary. Maybe a re-finish will be on the menu for next winter. I'm actually very satisfied with it overall right now. Take care!
 
Now if only we could get someone to make that stock out of synthetic (read injected mold plastic) .. The basic design looks sweet, and carving something up like that is usually the first step in proto-typing...

You should see what prototype motorcycles look like before they include fit and polish ... they look like a brick with wires hanging out lol. But they do that first to make sure the fundamental design works .. then they move on the the drool factor.

I think we have a solid design here...
 
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Maybe it was carved FROM the ugly tree :D


I think it looks good, finish is bad but you can fix that in time.

I would suggest using rare earth magnets from lee valley sink a couple of them in the but and ditch the Velcro. that way you can stick any mag in there and the Velcro wont get dirty and full of crap.
 
I think the design makes a heck of a lot of sense. Make the same thing professionally, slap a brand name on it like MacMillian or JAE on it, and you'd have people lining up to buy it.

I'd say leave it as it is. If it shoots well, who cares what it looks like.
 
One thing I'm not quite understanding...how is it lighter than a stock M14? If I am understanding this you added parts and only removed part of a chu wood stock...there is no way there would be a net weight loss here, unless you are saying that the stock weighs less than an empty M14, that I do believe!
 
sweet jesus.
im not big on pistol gripped stocks on rifles, but the overall design might not be so bad if you had sanded the joints smooth before applying the bedliner :)

what holds the mag in?
a rare earth magnet epoxied into the stock might do the trick elegantly :)
 
misanthropist said:
One thing I'm not quite understanding...how is it lighter than a stock M14? If I am understanding this you added parts and only removed part of a chu wood stock...there is no way there would be a net weight loss here, unless you are saying that the stock weighs less than an empty M14, that I do believe!
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The metal butt plates (hinged plate and and the fixed one with the tool compartment) are quite heavy, removing them will significantly change the ballance of the stock. You can notice how heavy the butt is when you have the stock off the rifle.
 
omg that thing is ugly. Were you having a little "drinky poo" when you were building it? They dont sell sand paper in the Yukon or what?

if you're happy with it.. what does it matter what we have to say?
you'll be a master stock builder in a few more go's....
 
Oh geez. I wasn't going to say anything. (If you don't have anything nice to say.....) But that stock is just way to freaking ugly. As a carpenter/wood worker I would probably do the work on that stock for free just to make it look better and not have to look at it. You would be amazed what a small planer and some sandpaper can accomplish. Or even at the least some sand paper. I've done a couple of guns and it isn't that difficult to make them nice.

That being said..... I appreciate an inventive mind. If you smoothed out the design a little that stock would be pretty cool.
 
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