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JB:

Have followed the sagas of Grandma's 722 .257 since your early writings.

First with the semi-custom laminate ( I think)
and later a neat looking lean custom classic stock.

Now it seems to sport a CDL 700 stock inletted for the 722.

Just wondered why the change.

Understand a guy with a crooked stocked 722 resorting to adapting
a 700 stock- we see questions about that subject once a month.

But both your laminate and especially the custom looked like the answer to a 722 owner's prayer.

Just wondering.

Thanks.

Bob

The laminate worked great, but then I was offered the chance to have it "custom" stocked. I took the guy up on the deal, but instead of actually custom stocking it, he just finished up a Fajen classic blank. There were two things wrong with this:

1) He insisted on installing a Niedner steel butt-plate, which meant the stock could only have a length of pull matching the Fajen machining for the buttplate. This turned out to be over 14", too long for me. When I asked him about this, he said he thought I had long arms. (I don't.) The real reason was that he wanted to use the Niedner buttplate. It also made the stock heavier than need be.

2) The stock was actually not particularly slim. In the end it weighed just about three pounds, quite heavy for a sporter, and about a pound more than either the factory stock or the laminate. This brought the total weight of the rifle to over 9 pounds with a typical 3-9x. I hunted with it for a while like this, and found the extra weight was an advantage in long-range shooting. But eventually I decided the extra LOP and weight were a PITA.

In the meantime somebody had talked me out of the laminated stock.

The stock it has now is actually off an older Remington 700 Mountain Rifle, before they started making them with a detachable magazine. It is now back down to a little over 8 pounds with scope, and the stock has about the same dimensions as the laminated stock.

Thanks JB:
The picture in the recent RIFLE MAGAZINE article made that old Fajen look
like a custom job!

Bob