Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Weatherby Vanguard in Howa Alpine Stock

Other than opening up the barrel channel the Vanguard will drop into the Alpine/Bansner stock. If the Vanguard is a youth model it should drop in.

I used a heavy grit sandpaper to open mine up. It's still easy to go through the outside layer of the stock, but I've noticed no ill-effect. This picture shows the 2 areas where the channel was the tightest:


It's worth it. Before pic with the Vanguard factory stock:


And with the Alpine stock:


With an early GPO 4-12X40 in Talley rings: