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Has anyone seen a worst checkering job on a new rifle? Marlin 1895 in 45/70 purchased in mid 2020.

I don't actually think that is checkering, not sure what it is intended to be but pretty sure checkering isn't it.

We sent some back to Remington with worse checkering, but it seemed like they didn't care. We had several that had entire chunks missing, 2 inch square sections. We'd get replacements in that were just as bad. Made me sick.

^^^ Yeah this, yours isn’t too bad, for a Marlin

Even my attempts look better, chuckle. But rifles from a lot of wood stocked rifles could use repointing. This was on post war rifles of half a century ago. Not all were class "A"

I have made barrel threads that look like that.

Pressed burlap look?

Ha ha. At least nobody gets to see your barrel threads.

Three or four years ago I bought a new Zastava Mauser. The thought of a $300 mauser intrigued me. It came with a stock that makes that look like a custom job. Worse checkering than that. Gun shoots nice and the blueing is superb but the stock is rough

Lools good it's a cheaply.made hunting gun.

(Got me worried, so I had to check.)

I bought a 336 in 35Rem in January this year and it has the exact same "chequering". On the fore end stock there is almost a diamond pattern but that at the grip there is something else. Looks okay at a distance with less than perfect eyesight, and is functional. It shoots good, so I can excuse them in my case.








I'll keep it away from the Anschutz when they are in the rack.

Dang that looks like I did it...lol

Laser cutter gone wild?

I've yet to find a Browning with "hand cut" checkering that didn't look like it was done with the corner of a brick by a 5 year old tourette's victim. My BPS was horrible and I looked at dozens of grade II BL-22's trying to find one with passable checkering before finally giving up and buying a grade I without the sloppy checkering.

More like the company doesn't bother with piss tests.

Now that’s funny! I thought pressed checkering was bad in the 60’s & 70’s - heck it’d be better just left smooth than take the time to rub a cheese grater on it??!

PennDog

There is enough roughness to make it functional though, but not as grippy as proper chequering. I'm almost convinced that the chequering on my Anschutz will remove skin if I mishandled it.

I'm gonna have a closer look at my CZs I think.

I have a friend who is a very competent stock maker...we were rooting through my safe the other day looking for something. One of the rifles I handed to him had my finest example of home checkering, I saw him looking at it and said, I did that (fishing for a complement actually). He said, Hmm. Not willing to give up I said, no, really what do you think of my checkering. He unloaded on me, that...is not checkering, I would generously describe that as texturing. Azshole.

A gunsmith friend of mine, showing off his checkering to another gunsmith was asked if he did it with a knife and fork.

I have an old piece of pine 2x4 I practiced on before I stated on rifles.It looks better than that