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Post by Junior on Jan 17, 2016 15:30:05 GMT -7
Needing a good stock for one of my Mauser 98 rifles that I am trying to set up a little nicer. What is your favorite stock. Setting the rifle up for longer ranges so needs to be a decent stock.
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Post by todddoyka on Jan 18, 2016 11:36:57 GMT -7
my son's is a '98 mauser in 7x57 that i had built for him and it is a bell and carlson stock. i got it in the mid 90's and its still going today. its a fiberglass stock that looks like a wood stock. it still shoots a 1/2" group at 100 yards. i don't know about a '98 action that is full milatry stock.
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Post by Junior on Jan 18, 2016 11:51:18 GMT -7
This one is a sporter rebarreled to 308.
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Post by todddoyka on Jan 19, 2016 11:53:20 GMT -7
this is his "98 mauser....  it has a 20" douglas premium barrel in 7x57, timinney trigger, and the bolt handle has been cut and replaced(same handle) with a (sort of)90deg throw. (i don't know the words for it) it shoots great!!! the same load, 139gr hornady fn with 43.0gr of imr3031, shoots at 1/2" at 100 yards(5 shots). i killed alot of deer with this gun, until he got ahold of it and then he started killing deer with it. i don't know if bell and carlson still make the stock but they should! |
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Post by urny on Jan 19, 2016 14:06:57 GMT -7
That looks similar to the B&C stock on my M77 Ruger. If it's the same, it has a very straight butt-stock that is a little clumsy in the field for the way I use a rifle. It's a pretty good bench stock though, for a sporter weight stock. The B&C stocks seem quite well made for what they cost, maybe the least expensive synthetics that are worth buying.
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Post by goodsteel on Jan 20, 2016 5:00:44 GMT -7
If you want cheap precision, I would look at Richards Microfit stocks. Check out the Benchmark style. Bed it with Devcon 10-110 and do it exactly like www.erniethegunsmith.com/ says to do it. Stress free bedding. If you want to go fiberglass, McMillan is the way to roll if you can afford it, but all you are really gaining over the laminated stock is weather resistance, and at the expense of stock harmonics IMHO. Build a rifle correctly in the laminated stock and it's like a fine guitar. You can hold it on the ballance point in your hand and punch the stock and you can feel the vibrations. I've built 1/2MOA 1000 yard guns on both stocks, but I personally like laminated stocks better, unless you plan on the rifle getting wet in the normal course of it's duties. A much cheaper and quicker option than McMillan that I personally highly recommend, is the Choate precision stock (although, I don't remember if they offer it for a 98 Mauser). These stocks are made right here in Arkansas and I have taken a tour of the facility, and my personal LR tactical rifle is built on one of these stocks.  Here's three shots at 200 yards with my 300 Win Mag in the picture above.  And here's a steel plate I twinked 25 times in a row at 1/3rd of a mile with the same rifle. The plate is 6" in diameter and you can see the group about the size of an orange in the lower left quadrant:  |
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Post by Junior on Jan 20, 2016 11:05:02 GMT -7
I will have to look into those. The rifle is nothing fancy but it is one of my favorites and it deserves better then the flimsy butler creek that is on it.
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Post by goodsteel on Jan 20, 2016 13:44:32 GMT -7
If you want to go cheap, buy a Boyde's stock. For $100 you can't beat the value, and properly bedded, they can really get the job done.
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Post by todddoyka on Jan 21, 2016 12:07:25 GMT -7
the boyd's stock is one that i hear about all the time. i have a savage m12 in 223 that was "stolen" by my dad, i've always thought about a laminate from boyd's but i always forget about it.  |
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