Wood Working: Remington ADL to BDL Stock Hack

[KC&97TA]

I've been searching for several months... haven't found any 'do it your self references'

Has anyone taken a Remington 700'ish ADL or Single Shot Walnut stock and converted it to BDL floor plate? By drilling, chiseling, rasping, filing, ect, ect to cut and recess the bottom plate?

I'm wanting to put my 700P into a walnut stock, didn't see many options in the 'walnut' category, picked up an unfinished 40xb stock for $50, it is a drop in for a 700, as single shot. Which is what many of the old ' Rangemasters ' were.

This is a similar photo to where I'm starting off; I'm waiting on a cut of black walnut to arrive to make an inlay were the forward hand-stop rail originally belonged. Starting by filling in the front, then opening up the bottom for the BDL floor plate. May do pillars and bedding as well? I've never done anything like this, received a wealth of knowledge from my usual gunsmith who didn't want this unusual project.

 

[Jim K]

It has been done many times. Not even a particularly difficult job, it simply needs care and a new trigger guard. I think Brownells even sells the kit for converting an ADL to a BDL, though I haven't checked lately.

Jim

 

[KC&97TA]

It has been done many times. Not even a particularly difficult job, it simply needs care and a new trigger guard. I think Brownells even sells the kit for converting an ADL to a BDL, though I haven't checked lately.

I'm not converting an ADL Rifle to BDL... I'm converting a 1970's single shot walnut stock to a 700P that was manufactured in a BDL stock, so there's no need to buy a kit.


1-1/2 hours into this tonight, I have the floor plate chiseled out and seated. 700P receiver/barrel is mounted into the stock along with the BDL floor plate. Almost looks like a M40'ish Clone minus the MonteCarlo stock swell.

 

[KC&97TA]

good bye plastic stock !

How I spent my Friday night. The stock was $56, Rasps $11, Chisels $30... Bedding kit looks to be $70 plus shipping... Closest wood stock I could
find to this was $300 and it didn't have the fat fore grip, and it had checkering on the stock. I was really after a fatty with smooth walnut.

Where I started





I marked out the floor plate in pencil then used a utility knife to score the boarder and not cut outside it. honestly used the utility knife allot, until I had the floor plate seated almost 1/4 inch. I used a mechanical pencil to measure depth of the cuts needed vs already removed from the stock.

The slow removal and outline of the floor plate, it's not fully seated in this picture.




After I got the floor plate fully seated I screwed the gun together as a single shot and called it a night.





Sunday, I began to slowly carve out the magazine well, they're not 100% finished pictures, I took them as i took a break, then went on to use a couple different rasps, files and sand paper along with a marker to mark clearances for the finish opening and cleaning up the magazine area. I had to use 2 small washers to fit the floor plate flush, and drill the forward screw area a little deeper, which I may need to recess a little more for added screw length into the receiver. I drilled it by hand with a round out and a screw driver adapter.





I have a little play in the internal magzine, just a bit more height up/down than the factory stock, I cycled live 180gr and 150 gr rounds through it, and it felt great, no issues feeding or extracting.





I'm leaning towards using a piece of oak for the bottom to inlay it, not exactly what I want but I have it in hand. I do want a little character... going to look at lowes or home depot, a really red oak or white colored ash, cherry, really undecided still... black walnut nice dark strip on the bottom leading towards the trigger guard?



I still have to do some sanding on the stock and plan to do a tung oil finish, but I wanted to do the inlay of the bottom first.

Well what do y'all think ?

 

[paintballdude902]

i like it. reminds me of the vietnam era sniper rifles

 

[Jim K]

I said, "Not even a particularly difficult job, it simply needs care and a new trigger guard."

I misunderstood and was wrong about the trigger guard, but was I wrong about the level of difficulty? You did a very nice job and obviously took care. Good work!

Jim

 

[KC&97TA]

I said, "Not even a particularly difficult job, it simply needs care and a new trigger guard."

I misunderstood and was wrong about the trigger guard, but was I wrong about the level of difficulty? You did a very nice job and obviously took care. Good work!

Jim

it was a job that required slow movement and patience, little slivers at a time. For those who have that patience, might believe it to be easy I guess. I wouldn't know how to rate the difficulty even after doing it, it was a little tedious for someone boarder line ADHD, who just quite smoking and doing it their first time.

Friday I got a strip of walnut, the inlay is done... just need to do some more sanding to level it to the stock.

Before I glue it in I have a strip of oak... I want to inlay and then look at the two, I may go with a simple walnut filling in, or I may go with the oak and stain it as dark black as I can find, just to give it an accent.