This is my first rifle project. In 1959, I purchased an original Savage 110, 30-06, which had a low-comb stock that didn't fit me well and transferred recoil badly, so I bought a Bishop semi-inletted stock blank and proceeded to whittle, file, and sand with hand tools until it closely matched the contours of a Weatherby stock, with sloping cheekpiece. Then I filed and sanded the bedding area, epoxy-bedded the action and free-floated the barrel. I didn't have much money and it was to be a deer rifle, so bought and installed a 2.5X Weaver scope. The rifle shot 3/4 MOA groups at 100 yards and I shot lots of varmints with it, but never shot a deer, so I sold it to a co-worker, about 1966 (who still has it and it's his favorite rifle).
The stock was nicely figured for a standard semi-inletted stock that probably cost about $30 back then. I didn't know how to checker, so left it smooth.
(Sorry for the poor picture quality. It's photographed from a 1963, yellowed, 35mm slide.)
The stock was nicely figured for a standard semi-inletted stock that probably cost about $30 back then. I didn't know how to checker, so left it smooth.
(Sorry for the poor picture quality. It's photographed from a 1963, yellowed, 35mm slide.)
