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Your fears were unfounded.

They are a pleasure to shoot. I have a 338 Winchester Magnum stocked in a McMillan Bridges with Edge fill and it's a pussy cat at 8lbs scoped..

I also have a 300 Weatherby Magnum in standard fill that is likewise easy to shoot.



Maybe if you have real small hands. The grip on that stock just looks uncomfortable to me...


My glove size is a L/XL, depending upon brand.

I can easily palm a basketball.

As far as handling recoil goes, the 338 Win Mag has Edge fill and shoots a 225 TSX at 2900 FPS. Rifle weight is 8 lb exactly with a Zeiss 2.5 X8 Conquest.

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tag to see if anyone finds a current source for these. I searched all over a year or so back and no one seemed to have the "rights' to them anymore. Last I saw Earl Bridges now works at Boedeker Brothers Armory in Texas and their facebook shows a custom rifle he built with the stock in June 2016. I emailed them a while back to see if they were selling the stocks and never received a reply.

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Have you tried Hill Country Rifles in Texas?

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Phone: 830-609-3139

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I called HCR around April of 2016 and at that time whoever I spoke to said they didn't have those stocks for sale.

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That's disappointing.

In that case I would call McMillan and ask them who has the proprietary rights to that stock.


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Contact J Earl Bridges at 830-305-7706. Spoke with him August 2017, really easy to talk to and helpful. Price for finished stock was same as a standard McMillan IIRC. He requires a deposit and then submits the order to McMillan as he has rights to the mold.


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Did someone say there is a model for Remingtons?



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Originally Posted by RinB
Did someone say there is a model for Remingtons?


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The “Rifleman” mcmillian that Hill Country exclusively carries is one of my favorite hunting stocks as well. I purchased one from them in May 2017 and called the other day to purchase another and was told they no longer sell them unless they are part of a $1200 accurizing job. Disappointing but what can ya say.

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I have heard that these are difficult to shoot well. Something about the grip. Was looking at doing a build, talked to someone (gunmaker) who had done multiple builds with them and he steered me away.

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Originally Posted by 10generation
I have heard that these are difficult to shoot well. Something about the grip. Was looking at doing a build, talked to someone (gunmaker) who had done multiple builds with them and he steered me away.


The grip is very open. It's one of those things you either like or don't, with little middle ground. I fall into the "don't" category.


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Really like the looks of that, and I'm a big fan of a more open grip like that. May have to investigate.



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How do they differ from McMillan's Sporter stock?

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I'm going to give him a call this week, thanks for the new info. If anyone has one they want to sell, finished or semi-inletted for a Win 70 shoot me a PM, would prefer to avoid the Mcmillan wait.

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Originally Posted by aalf
How do they differ from McMillan's Sporter stock?


You can get them for a M70 unlike the sporter which is only inletted for remington & the clones.

I'm a M70 fan and it's frustrating dealing with McMillan because their selection of stocks for M70's sucks, it seems like every pattern they'll inlet for a M70 was designed in the '60's with way too much drop at the comb. I have a couple in Hunter's Edge stocks which are good except the comb is far too low so I have to raise them with a pad. I've never handled a Bridges pattern stock but it looks really good to me. To me it looks like a slimmed down Echols legend and the comb is actually high enough for a scope.

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Originally Posted by Hydenseek
The “Rifleman” mcmillian that Hill Country exclusively carries is one of my favorite hunting stocks as well. I purchased one from them in May 2017 and called the other day to purchase another and was told they no longer sell them unless they are part of a $1200 accurizing job. Disappointing but what can ya say.


I was looking to try a Rifleman stock and used HCRs web contact page to find out if the stock could be bought - alone. The response I got was the same as the above, "not unless it's part of a $1200 accurizing job." Sadly that won't be happening.


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Seems it's proprietary like D'Arcy's Legend, also made by McM, but only available from him.

I would like to see photos of that stock and wonder how it compares with others, as aalf has asked.

BTW, Photobucket sucks...

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Rifleman is pretty close to the McM Game Scout/Game Warden/Game Hunter. It has the high comb of the Game Hunter, but is is sans the cheek rest of the Game Hunter. Comb is higher on the Rifleman than on the McM Game Scout/Warden by about 5/16 of an inch. Additionally, I don't think that the grip is as vertical as the McM variants.

Best I could do for a pic since HCR doesn't seem to want to advertise the Rifleman, and all remnants of the Precision Stock Works web site and its contents are long gone.

https://cdn.athlonoutdoors.com/wp-c...308match_tactical_riflemanstock_left.jpg


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