Drove over to Chris Schofield's shop yesterday with my LH Model 70 so he could set up the inletting for the pattern stock he's making. Last week I mailed him a Remington BDL stock for the exterior and he had that basic pattern already done.

Trying to put a Model 70 into a stock designed for a Remington 700 action isn't the easiest thing in the world, but with a sculptor's eye and lots of bondo anything is possible. It was fun watching this all take shape. I didn't get as many pics as I wanted but you get so wrapped up in watching the creative process you kind of forget.

Anyway, a bit of the process.

The factory BDL stock taped up from the pantograph, my model 70 in pieces taped and covered in shoe polish waiting to be slathered in bondo.



The initial set of the recoil lug. Hey, it's almost ready to shoot!



Inletting around the trigger guard with the Bridgeport milling machine. I love watching big ol' heavy machines like this at work.



Getting that inletting just right. Bondo is your friend. I was joking with Chris about how you always hear to use a piece of "scrap wood" for mixing bondo and epoxy and such. Chris' "scrap wood" is a piece of nicely figured walnut.



Chris setting the tang just right.



I have heard it said that two things you don't want to watch being made are laws and sausages. To that list you can add watching a pattern stock being built up around your nice new Winchester rifle.



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But everything turned out fine. The bondo came off and the rifle is all cleaned up and re-assembled. Chris helped me pick out a really nice blank of walnut and is going to cut the stock here pretty soon. More on that in time.

this is pretty cool to watch. thanks for the pics..

I agree, pretty cool to watch, and a neat project. But for the life of me I can't figure out, from a practical standpoint, why one would want to copy a Remington Stock for a Model 70 action when there are probably many many many model 70 custom stock models to copy from.

I guess a guy would really have to like Remington Stocks.

thats easy, you simply build what fits you best. strange as it may sound, i have only ever seen one stock fit me as well as a factory Remington 700 classic stock, and i built it from the ground up. Heavy as hell, so it wont be going too many places any more.

Yep, that's why. The Remington Model 700 BDL stock in factory form fits me as well or better than anything else I've ever used. I particularly like the pistol grip - the "closedness" of it, the thickness and the subtle swelling toward the grip, and the way it places my trigger finger exactly right.

And even then, a guy who makes stocks like Chris can suggest certain improvements, like a thicker but shorter and shallower cheekpiece. It improves the looks and it feels so much better against my face. We can build some cant into the butt, that improves shoulder positioning.

Little things can make big differences. 1/4 inch here, 1/4 inch there, and a stock that has to try to fit Everyman suddenly fits you like a custom made boot.

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Jim,

Again, thanks for sharing... loving the progress update and hope you keep it up!

Cheers and good luck! I am sure its going to turn out to be a BEAUTIFUL stock!

I picture of the final pattern would be cool.

Will do. I'll be going over again in a couple of weeks to pick up the stock and work on a pattern for a LH Ruger Hawkeye so I'll get a pic of it then.

Thanks. 2 weeks is not bad for duplication. Should be a nice lefty stock.