Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Ultralightweight stock weights.....FYI.

I was looking for a stock for my Featherweight, several outfits had stocks for M70's but not for the thinner contour of the Featherweight. McMillan had one and was told it weighed ~ 24 oz. I decided to weigh the factory stock and much to my surprise it weighs just under 26 oz (with pad)- not too shabby



I believe this is at least part of the reason

Yep, someone probably hogged that out on their own. Winchester used to do that with their pre 64 fwt stocks. Drilled 2 7/8" diameter holes in the butt of the stocks to lighten them up. I've seen some pre 64 fwt stocks that have been pretty lightweight. Keeping in mind that they did advertise them to weigh in around 6.5 pounds.. I'd just run with the wood stock on your fwt, unless you don't want to mess it up. Then there are many options out there, but nothing is going to be substantially lighter than what you already have. Well, 4 to 6 oz's, but that is just 1/4 pound. I'd buy a synthetic stock to preserve the wood stock more so that buying something looking to significantly reduce the weight of that rifle. The factory winlite stock would look and work great on your rifle. As would the hunter's edge/compact edge.

Yep, someone probably hogged that out on their own. Winchester used to do that with their pre 64 fwt stocks. Drilled 2 7/8" diameter holes in the butt of the stocks to lighten them up. I've seen some pre 64 fwt stocks that have been pretty lightweight. Keeping in mind that they did advertise them to weigh in around 6.5 pounds.. I'd just run with the wood stock on your fwt, unless you don't want to mess it up. Then there are many options out there, but nothing is going to be substantially lighter than what you already have. Well, 4 to 6 oz's, but that is just 1/4 pound. I'd buy a synthetic stock to preserve the wood stock more so that buying something looking to significantly reduce the weight of that rifle. The factory winlite stock would look and work great on your rifle. As would the hunter's edge/compact edge.

Is it a Trophy hunter?

Supercub;
Good morning to you my friend, I hope the week was good to you overall and despite what we're dealing with politically up here and that you and yours are well.

With the understanding I'm going off of memory here and not getting off my chair to grab a new Decelerator off the wall of the shop, when I was going down the rabbit hole with both feet I weighed everything on a kitchen scale and it was educational.

As an interesting and somewhat ironic twist, when I did an online search at what a Decelerator weighs, I found the 24Campfire and some fruitcake called BC30cal spouted this nonsense...

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...s/3560463/How_heavy_is_a_Pachmayr_Decele

While I'm not sure if they still have this stuff, years back I picked up a few 1" thick chunks of the stuff which Corlane uses for their mountain rifle builds. Those blanks are a whisker over 1oz and while they're not as soft as a Decelerator they're not too bad either.

Just a thought if you or anyone out there wants to lose 4oz on the recoil pad.

All the best and God Bless.

Dwayne

Stocky's Carbon Fiber blem for the Howa Mini Action:



Howa Mini Action .223 with above stock and Oregunsmithing bottom metal:

The balance is toward the muzzle but it feels great to me.

Any lightweights for a Savage 10?? McM Edge is not a lightweight after they get done reinforcing it for the Savage. I can't seem to find anything current from Brown.

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The balance is toward the muzzle but it feels great to me.

That's better than I thought it might be

Just asking. The trophy hunter stock is pretty dang light as is. Just wondering why some guys think losing 5 ozs is really worth the exorbitant expense? Your rifle is not going to shoot any better, you're not getting much better aesthetics or ergos, you are going to take it in the azz on resale. Its also a Savage.

Just asking. The trophy hunter stock is pretty dang light as is. Just wondering why some guys think losing 5 ozs is really worth the exorbitant expense? Your rifle is not going to shoot any better, you're not getting much better aesthetics or ergos, you are going to take it in the azz on resale. Its also a Savage.