New Boyds Stock On My M305,Finaly Assembled :D

[Travis Bickle]

I finaly finished this project.
Picked up a Boyds unfinished M1A stock on the cheap.
Here is what it looked like on arrival:

After carefull sanding and about 12 sessions of hand rubbed mix of 1:1 boiled linseed oil and varsol:

After finaly stripping the gear out of the chu wood stock, a few cuss words later and she was all together. Thanks again to Hungry for the M1A front ferrule screw and nut set

A picture of my super high tech tactical stock screw tool

Cost $110. after shipping for the stock and a new ferrule cap. Materials left over from previous use and purchase.
Some minor sanding inside the stock was required for the metal lining to make it line up with the holes for the liner screws.

Gun Nut on a budget!

 

[chalkriver]

Looking good buddy , keep checking Boyds as they sell the wood handguards as well.

 

[asphalt599]

I have a boyds on one of mine. They are a really nice stock. Lighter than the chu wood and far more comfortable to hold/shoot.
Nice looking gun you have there.

 

[f55]

Love the stock, the receiver isnt flush with the stock on the right hand side in the pic 8
I had to file a little on the right to get mine flush.

 

[chalkriver]

Love the stock, the receiver isnt flush with the stock on the right hand side in the pic 8
I had to file a little on the right to get mine flush.

^ This

If you look on the right side of the Chinese receiver the area he mentions is actually at an angle sloped towards the outside.I had to cut a groove in my archangel stock to get it to sit flush.

 

[f55]

Also check for safe function as per sticky before you shoot it.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

Looks good, aside from the need to inlet the stock on the right hand side to get it to lay flat. Also, make sure there is something to stop the op rod spring guide's cross pin from working its way out. The stock should do that. The boyd's stock probably won't. Look up the popsicle stick mod.

 

[Jwirecom109]

looks good

 

[Travis Bickle]

Awesome. Thanks for the tips guys.
Guess I'm not done yet eh?
I'll check out the mod stickies.
Thanks!

 

[V-Max]

Now that is exactly what I want to do with mine!!

 

[Travis Bickle]

Now that is exactly what I want to do with mine!!

Boyds still has the unfinished M1A stocks on sale right now.
You could probably still pick one up.
They aren't expensive at all. After shipping came to $100 shipped to Ontario.