Tax refund = PGW Coyote ?

CanuckR said:
Not entirely sure if that is supposed to be a jab or not..........

I have shot and handled a few of these rifles. I'm not just looking at the picture and making it up. They rattle, the thumb wheel bolts come loose after a few rounds and your cheek piece moves, or just drops to the bottom, then to counter act this you crank the screws down so tight you need pliers or something to loosen them off.
I have also seen a couple where the top hoop part is loose and rattles and moves separately from the adjustment bar.
For the price of the stock, not to mention the complete rifle I feel there are far far better options.
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Whoever's rifles you were handling clearly was misinformed about how much torque is generally required to have the cheekpiece set for the shooter to achieve the appropriate height. Your resting your cheek on the cheekpiece, not parking your pickup truck on it, the McMillian stocks employ an un-anodized/bare piece of aluminum for threading in which the thumbwheels mate up with the riser bar for the appropriate height. Not much torque is needed as again you are not (or should not) be pressing down with an absolute insane amount of force, while that is a downfall of the stock system (with that cheekpiece as its selected option) in my mind, a simple re-threading job to an upsized thread will suffice (with the appropriate corresponding thumbwheeler threads of course) and then taking note to NOT OVERTIGHTEN the screws as bare aluminum doesn't play well with threading constantly. The bare aluminum block is permanently epoxied into the rear of the stock, so it would require a pretty good amount of machining for removal/replacement to something stronger.

The folding stock systems employ a more robust setup, and one that does NOT have the threading pitfalls of the McMillian...
 
Thats freaking gorgeous,


armorman said:
The cheek piece on my Timberwolf will do that. The screws will come loose after 30 or 40 rounds and then it starts to move. My Coyote cheek piece stays put and never drops. Go figure. Anyway, it's a minor issue and it doesn't bother me. I just snug the screws up after 20 or 30 rounds.

My Coyote with a NXS 5.5-22×56 and Badger Max 50 rings:

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this is a great use for a tax refund. I might do the same. Already bought a nighthawk with some of it but why not reach out and touch some yote?
 
onetwentyish said:
NO!!! GO MODERN HUNTER!!! Haha
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I know we talked about it, But im selling my .308 to buy this one so it doesn't count as a new purchase, Ill just tell the wife im sending it out to get cerakoted... lol.... she won't know the difference.

Im still interested in the modern hunter its just lower on the list now....

at this rate Ill have a bunch of made in Canada " weapons systems " which is epic...
 
I already blew my budget for 2015, Depending on what I get back for taxes, Ill be able to get both. hopefully Caramel can just lend me some scopes to hold me over until next year.

I did just get a 25K line of credit thats nice and empty.... the possibilities....

onetwentyish said:
Canadians do have some good talent! (Especially the guys at ATRS) ;)
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Brolove....
 
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I'm installing flooring in my basement with this years tax return. Maybe put a hitch on the car to save on delivery fees.... boy am I excited. Altough I did manage to shove a 16 gun wpn locker into my chevy cruze last year. It was half hanging out the trunk with my hand on it on the inside, also managed 190 12x3x4 stones for a flower bed in the cruze. Now that thing was riding LOW. They offered to help me load the stones at home depot, I said no thanks its going in my trunk. They looked at me like an idiot. My car was a boat, so bouncy all the way home, and looking over the hood was like a boat, couldn't see ####.

but yeah flooring, ya tax return
 
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