When a new stock makes it seem like new rifle day.

[Nosferatu]

I decided to replace the Boyd's laminated stock on my Howa Mini 6.5 Grendel with a Stocky's carbon fiber stock. Feels like a whole new rifle.

The Boyd's was light...this is ridiculously light!




Can't wait to chase some deer down with it in a few months.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Nice looking rifle.
Andy

 

[orygun]

I somewhat reversed what you did, @Nosferatu . I took a rifle in a synthetic stock and put it in a Boyd's wood stock. Like you, I thought it was like getting a new gun!

 

[Nosferatu]

I somewhat reversed what you did, @Nosferatu . I took a rifle in a synthetic stock and put it in a Boyd's wood stock. Like you, I thought it was like getting a new gun!

Part of my motivation was that I was chasing some POI shifts. I never had full confidence in the Boyd's stock since I couldn't really get it free-floated and the "pillar bedding" in it is kinda janky.

I'm hoping the full aluminum bedding and true free-float of the carbon fiber stock fixes it.

I'll know for sure over the next couple weeks.

 

[Spitpatch]

I decided to replace the Boyd's laminated stock on my Howa Mini 6.5 Grendel with a Stocky's carbon fiber stock. Feels like a whole new rifle.

The Boyd's was light...this is ridiculously light!


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Can't wait to chase some deer down with it in a few months.

Examine that rear sling swivel stud closely. It may only be a screw cap hiding the Helium valve stem intake to the buttstock.

I like little effective rifles.

 

[monkeybutler]

Is that the CZ mag conversion that Jefferson Outdoor used to make?

 

[Nosferatu]

Is that the CZ mag conversion that Jefferson Outdoor used to make?

Yes.

 

[gmerkt]

Is that the CZ mag conversion that Jefferson Outdoor used to make

That's the bit that I was admiring.

 

[monkeybutler]

Wish they were still available.

 

[Nosferatu]

Wish they were still available.

I didn't know they aren't.

It's a vast improvement over the plastic factory bottom metal, as are the CZ mags.