Refurbish a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight

[NorCalRifleman]

Restock a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight

I want to refurbish my grandfather's Model 70 and the stock has got to go. I'm looking for a faithful reproduction that won't break the bank. It must be walnut. I am looking forward to doing any work to finish the inletting and bed the action, but checkering is something I'm sure I'd just screw up, so I would prefer finding one with that already done.

I've been searching around, but I just can't seem to find the right stock. Everything is either laminate or uncheckered or of a completely different style. Any recommendations on where I could go to find a reproduction of a pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight stock?

 

[NorCalRifleman]

Any advice at all is welcome.

 

[TheJoker16]

i haven't been able to find a per-checkered stock and I've been looking for awhile now but checkering really isn't that hard to do just takes a little practice i've been doing checkering since i was 12 all i use it a knife but they have tools that are fairly cheap to help make checkering easier

 

[NorCalRifleman]

I'm really leary of attempting checkering myself. I can take just about anything apart and put it back together better. My mechanical sense is great, but I am no artist. I couldn't draw a straight line to save my life. I could probably checker a stock better than the one the rifle is wearing now, but that isn't saying much.

 

[Kendal Black]

If you want it checkered, this might be the time to call in an expert. There are people who will do custom checkering for hire. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=stock+checkering

You could leave the stock uncheckered, just smooth and finish it really well. I think a rifle done up this way looks good. As to whether the extra traction of checkering actually helps you hang onto the rifle in the field, which is checkering's only functional purpose, as opposed to a merely aesthetic purpose, I don't really think it's all that useful. Consider all the wooden stocked military rifles without the least bit of checkering. They seemed to work okay.

Good luck with your project!

 

[Horsemany]

Mcmillan has drop in fiberglass stocks for it. You can send them the gun and they'll bed it too. Keep that old stock. The gun's more valuable in the old stock to collectors.

 

[NorCalRifleman]

I'd rather not put it in fiberglass . . . and this rifle will never leave the family while I have breath. I'll take a look at what they've got though. Thanks.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

You may find this from Brownell's helpful <http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/lid=14566/GunTechdetail/Fast-Relief-from-Homely-Firearms?mc_ID=2054&sp_rid=MjM3MDQwOTQ1MzYS1&sp_mid=3734090>

 

[NorCalRifleman]

You may find this from Brownell's helpful <http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/lid=14566/GunTechdetail/Fast-Relief-from-Homely-Firearms?mc_ID=2054&sp_rid=MjM3MDQwOTQ1MzYS1&sp_mid=3734090>

You know, I'm starting to think a Boyd's walnut Prairie Hunter might be the ticket. They seem to produce a quality stock AND they offer checkering at a very reasonable price. I wonder how it would look with a featherweight barrel.

 

[dirtyjim]

here lately there has been a ton of winchester stocks on ebay, you might find a original thats in better shape than what you have now