- Location
- Calgary, AB
Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of this company? I picked up a synthetic stock made by them and was looking for some info.
Six Enterprises
- Thread starter 444shooter
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I've heard of them, brownells sold them. I don't think they were very expensive, and are quite a heavy stock, yes?
If you really want some info, I'm sure I have a old brownells catalog I could look them up in.
If you really want some info, I'm sure I have a old brownells catalog I could look them up in.
- Location
- Calgary, AB
If you could, that would be great. Thanks.
- Location
- Calgary, AB
Many thanks for the info. Looking to sell, so wondering what a fair price would be. It's for a LA (magnum)
Tough to say. You just don't see them very often. I assume bdl?
- Location
- Calgary, AB
Yes, it's a BDL.
Met Lee Six at a trade show when he first started offering these. One of the first injection moulded stocks. Six had been making laid up benchrest stocks. Asked him if he would be making stocks for other guns. He wasn't sure. At the time, dies were abut $150,000 per design.
Used a number of them. Decent stocks.
Used a number of them. Decent stocks.
Lee Six and Chet brown made some of the earliest fiberglass stocks I can remember being on the market. A number of years later they each went their separate ways forming Six Enterprizes and Brown Precision , each making fiberglass stocks. I have a Six stock on a lightweight .340 Wea. Not super light but pretty light for a .340. I like it as it does not show scratches readily.I think it was considered a drop in although I did bed it.
I have 2 of them Very stiff stocks BUT Not Light ! RJ
That looks like a twin to a stock I owned many years ago. They came in 2 contours for the Remington 700 BDL (std and magnum)
I had one of each. Both were injection molded and hollow out of the box.
They weren't overly expensive as I recall.
Not a badly designed stock but I wouldn't put them in the same class as today's Bell and Carlson.
Regarding them being heavy I found the opposite to be true. Likely because neither one had been filled to completion.
I had one of each. Both were injection molded and hollow out of the box.
They weren't overly expensive as I recall.
Not a badly designed stock but I wouldn't put them in the same class as today's Bell and Carlson.
Regarding them being heavy I found the opposite to be true. Likely because neither one had been filled to completion.
Speaking from experience, the stock pictured in the first post is a prime example of being a short-shot (mold under-filled) this can be caused by the mold not being hot enough; the hot-runners being under temp; holding pressure too low; holding time too short; possibly shot size to low.
My guess would be that if it was sold, it would have been sold as a "second".
The original poster was asking about value; I would say not much. Fill it, clean it up, paint it with epoxy or a ceramic coating and put it on a rifle; it will be worth more that way than standing alone.
BTW, to have a new mold built today for a single cavity mold, $250,000 - $300,000 would not be out of line; then you would need a press for that rather big mold new would be $500,000; or farm it out to an injection molding company. The second would be the most economical. So how many would you have to build to sell them at a decent price and make money? Likely 50,000 units.
When we see economical rifles with composite stocks; just think how many they must be selling world wide to cover the tooling; likewise, this is why designs don't change that much. It is easy to change the program to change the design of a CNC cut wooden stock, but the cost is in the finishing; With thermoplastic injection it is costly to change a design (mold repairs for a single feature usually cost $2,000-10,000), but finishing is easy; just change the resin pigment to change the colour. 2 stage injection, and overmolding would cost more.
My guess would be that if it was sold, it would have been sold as a "second".
The original poster was asking about value; I would say not much. Fill it, clean it up, paint it with epoxy or a ceramic coating and put it on a rifle; it will be worth more that way than standing alone.
BTW, to have a new mold built today for a single cavity mold, $250,000 - $300,000 would not be out of line; then you would need a press for that rather big mold new would be $500,000; or farm it out to an injection molding company. The second would be the most economical. So how many would you have to build to sell them at a decent price and make money? Likely 50,000 units.
When we see economical rifles with composite stocks; just think how many they must be selling world wide to cover the tooling; likewise, this is why designs don't change that much. It is easy to change the program to change the design of a CNC cut wooden stock, but the cost is in the finishing; With thermoplastic injection it is costly to change a design (mold repairs for a single feature usually cost $2,000-10,000), but finishing is easy; just change the resin pigment to change the colour. 2 stage injection, and overmolding would cost more.
