cleaning up a sporter

[kevin.303]

what i want to do is take my non-matching '41 Lithgow with cutdown wood and clean it up a bit. basiclly turn it into a Parker & Hale.i have a B-Square mount for it which i hate and want to get a low reciever mount instead. the P & H i had before had one that was drilled on the reciever ring and charger bridge. what make would this be, is it the Weaver tip off mount? the Weaver mount listed in the SIR catalogue says it's for No.4's, not No.1's. has anyone ordered a stock from Boyds before? they look real nice and the price is good, almost too good. thanks for the help.

[MGMorden]

I ordered the stock for my Turk Mauser project from Boyd's.  Wood quality was good and the price was much better than most other places.  The inletting was a bit loose though.  The action drops in and secures just fine, but there as slightly larger gaps around most areas than would normally be there.  Don't get me wrong it's not like they're gaping holes or anything, but it is noticeable.

While I'm not extremely dissatisfied, I'll likely go with a Ricards Micro-Fit for any future projects.

[Mikey]

kevin.303 - I agree with MG on the Boyd's stock.  It is inexpensive but it is not the tightest fitting stock around.  However, that being said, that is what bedding compound is for.

I have a Richards Micro-fit stock and it is a beauty.  But the dang thing took 6 months to get and was pretty expensive.  I went with Boyd's for those two reasons for my next Mauser stock.  

I don't recall, right off the bat, what the B-Square mount looks like on the No 4's but I have one of those 'no-gunsmithing' mounts from someone that fits into the rear sight base and over the charging bridge.  It sits nice and low and works very well for me.  It is secured inside the charging bridge by a double set of set screws but you may have to dimple the (shallow pocket or hole) inside of the charging bridge first with a small drill bit where the screw would seat to seat it positively.  HTH.  Mikey.

[jh45gun]

I read a artice by Elmer Keith and he was a proponent of full contact stocks. He said free floating a barrel was the gun makers excuse to get out of good bedding jobs. Hey what ever works if the free floating makes good groups I guess that is good and dandy. Still with a stock like you say you have bed the whole thing and you will have a accurate rifle also. I did this to one of my milsurps and the full contact bedding works fine. Funny thing is you look at most military stocks and they are bedded good and shoot good even with full stocked rifles because they were made the old way like they should have been.