Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Could someone educate me on McMillans please

What's wrong with the cheek piece thingies? All of my synthetics have one incl a couple Browns.

I used to like them till now when I found out they wernt cool.

Just my 2 cents worth: You might have another option: I've used various pre-64s for almost all my hunting for many years. You can reduce a fair amount of weight with careful selection of mounts, rings and scopes. McMillan stocks are quite expensive and the wait time is quite long I understand. Purchase a decent factory shooter grade. There are a good number of used factory pre-64 stocks around and some are not all that expensive: certainly much cheaper than the McMillans: probably no more than $150. or so. I've reduced a noticable amount of weight by drilling 2 holes, the diameter that the factory used in the featherweights, into the rear of the butts. Then select a light buttplate option to the steel factory ones which weighted 1/4 lb. If you properly seal the inside of the stock, I doubt you'll have any problems with movement of the wood, even in wet conditions. I've hunted Alaska several times with such a stock with no problems. Another option would be to find a factory featherweight floorplate and trigger guard. With all such changes you should be able to end up with a rifle at about 8 1/2 lbs. or so and maybe a bit less, depending on the density of the wood. Good luck.

I agree with smokepole. There's not a damn thing wrong with saving the original stock and keeping it in primo condition, while you hunt with a lighter stronger synthetic stock. Not a damn thing...


Like usual, Deflave/"clark", doesn't know what the hell he's talking about...