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I don't know what, but there seems to be something different about this Varmint Rifle? Link: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/891162039Let me know what I am wondering about. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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I'm trying to imagine how or why one of my thumbs would be way back there?
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I'm trying to imagine how or why one of my thumbs would be way back there? Funny, I glossed right over that aspect. Maybe for the offhand...... Here's a real one: Looks like they had them in this color too:
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kinda handy for hanging it on a peg by the backdoor.....
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Huntsman: Maybe YOU are correct I had NOT thought of that usage? I consider myself a gun enthusiast bordering on being a gun nut - but I can NOT figger out that stock. I also glossed over it initially and went to the enlarged images about 20 deep before "it" hit me or occurred to me - WTH is that about? I own maybe ten thumbhole stocked Rifles and LOVE them but that configuration mystifies me and the fella selling it did not mention in the Rifles description anything about it - one bid so far? Again maybe Huntsman22 is right? Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Windfall & Aalf: Do you think it is some kind of twisted joke? Or that somebody went to all the trouble (and some expense!) to fool with people? Could it be made for a person confined to a wheel-chair or something like that? From a normal "shooting position" I can NOT figure how a person (the one firing the Rifle!) could get any of their thumbs into that hole. Oh well - I just love Varmint Rifles and thought I had seen most everything in the way of Varminters. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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I don't have a clue. Actually, it's not a 700 thumbhole stock. Someone whittled the hole in a regular VLS stock. Maybe he got tired of chasing bees out of knotholes, so he made is own.
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Likely whittled out to lighten it up a bit would be my guess. Not that that was the best place or idea but it’s the best I can come up with.
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The only possible thing I can come up with is the thumbhole is for the left hand. Shooting off a bench or rest with the fore end on a bag, left arm wrapped under the stock, thumb in hole, right hand on grip and trigger. Something similar to the notch on the bottom side of the stock on some tactical rifles. I dunno, just a guess. Still, the shooter would have to have some knuckle draggin arms on him.
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Likely whittled out to lighten it up a bit would be my guess. Not that that was the best place or idea but it’s the best I can come up with. This is the most likely IMO. I did a similar dishing out of the butt of a Kimber 82 that in order to make the weight limit for Smallbore Silhouette Hunting Rifle class, I did stop before I went all the way through though. It would not surprise me if this was done for the same reason. drover
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It is just a stock for hunters with big hands. Really big hands.
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Aalf & The Kid: You both may be correct. But to lighten a Varmint Rifle in caliber 6m/m Remington after purchasing that Rifle as it "was" seems self defeating in value wise and weight wise to me. I look for ways to maintain weight on my heavy barrel Varminters not to lighten them - in my opinion/experience heavier Rifles are steadier under field conditions let alone at the range when testing for accuracy, competing etc. But again you's guy's have probably hit upon the most likely of all the unlikely reasons that "hole" appeared in that stock? Early last year at a "pawn shop" in Butte, Montana I bought a similar (no hole in the stock!) Remington 700 VLS in 6m/m Remington at a "give-away" cash price. It is minty with very little sign of use/wear on its bolt face even. My 6m/m does have the dreaded "J' lock on it, for now! I put a Leupold 6.5x20 variable scope on it, got into my stash of 6m/m Remington brass and fireformed 20 of them for serious load development - I just haven't had time to get back to this rig for more load development as yet. That will be a good project for when this blizzard passes. Anyway the Rifle showed "promise" during fireforming and sight-in. I think I will skip the "reverse thumbhole", "lightening hole" or what ever it is on my Rifle though! Where'dja go Big Green? Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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1: a lightening cut taken too far. 2: maybe for the offside hand shooting from a bench.
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I’m amazed someone paid $950 for it😱
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Scratching my head over that stock configuration... did a dyslexic stock maker set up his cutting fixture wrong and cut the thumbhole backwards? Weird.... but the really weird thing is they got $950 + shipping for that abomination?
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Pappy348 & Sheister: I have been watching (firsthand - in person!) Remington 700 bolt action Rifles selling like "hotcakes" when they do come up for sale around here - over the last 12 - 15 weeks! EXPENSIVE hotcakes, at that! For instance a plain jane Remington 700 with 20" sporter barrel in 223 Remington and cheapo fibersomething stock came onto the used gun rack at my LGS yesterday well after the noon hour yesterday and it was GONE this A.M. - after a maximum of 4 hours of shelf time! The price was a somewhat reasonable $435.00 but again it sold almost instantly. $950.00 - I am surprised, but its the way of the world nowadays it seems. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Likely whittled out to lighten it up a bit would be my guess. Not that that was the best place or idea but it’s the best I can come up with. we have a winner
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It belongs to a guy with a bad cheek tumor.
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I've finished several of those... those are Boyd's Stocks...
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