I was wanting to give my Zastava 30-06 stainless synthetic a birthday present. I toyed with a McMillan or Bell and Carlson Composite, but I'm really loving wood these days.
So I sprung for the cheap $70 + post for a Boyds walnut field design, unfinished semi-inlet stock. For seventy bucks I thought "Well how bad can it be?"
After inletting and (I must admit not enough) sanding, six hand rubbed coats of Tru Oil, fitted her up and look how she came out....
Well I am delighted with the result. My photo skills aren't great but even these pics look ok. There's even a nice bit of mild fiddleback in there and the colour is a nice gold rather than some dark stuff that's out there.
I did a cursory bedding of the recoil lug with JB weld which I've found works ok for me. I tried 3 different handloads consisting of 180g Interlocks and 168g AMAXes, and two powders, and shot these first 5 x three shot groups.
The last group blew out a little to 2 inches at 125y but even that is only 1.6moa. Average was 1.15moa.
Am I happy?
So I sprung for the cheap $70 + post for a Boyds walnut field design, unfinished semi-inlet stock. For seventy bucks I thought "Well how bad can it be?"
After inletting and (I must admit not enough) sanding, six hand rubbed coats of Tru Oil, fitted her up and look how she came out....
Well I am delighted with the result. My photo skills aren't great but even these pics look ok. There's even a nice bit of mild fiddleback in there and the colour is a nice gold rather than some dark stuff that's out there.
I did a cursory bedding of the recoil lug with JB weld which I've found works ok for me. I tried 3 different handloads consisting of 180g Interlocks and 168g AMAXes, and two powders, and shot these first 5 x three shot groups.
The last group blew out a little to 2 inches at 125y but even that is only 1.6moa. Average was 1.15moa.
Am I happy?
