Thread: making a ruger stock with the duplicator

Looks really geat

And, the next project is...........?

Beautiful job, i envy your stock making & bedding skills .
I built a 416 taylor from a ruger 77mk1 458 win a few years ago .
I have just purchased 2 Boyds laminated ruger 77mk2 stocks for some other projects a 6.5 grendel & a 35 whelen .

Originally Posted by Bob38S

Looks really geat

And, the next project is...........?

dont get me started
theres this lady, she is living in my house, apparently she is my wife anyone know how to ask someone their name, when your supposed to know it?

heheeheheheee
seriously tho i have a few projects that realy need doing. fitting a detachable mox mag floor plate into a tikka, theres this horrid martini one piece thumbhole i need to copy to make it into something nice. i still have that rem 700 to finish. then i need to tool up for a bunch of 2 piece stocks like the ruger no1 and martini shotgun etc that have a center bored stock bolt. mite need a bit of advice there actualy.

better pull my finger out
greg

Originally Posted by rdog

Beautiful job, i envy your stock making & bedding skills .
I built a 416 taylor from a ruger 77mk1 458 win a few years ago .
I have just purchased 2 Boyds laminated ruger 77mk2 stocks for some other projects a 6.5 grendel & a 35 whelen .

oh nice, i realy rate the taylor, great cartridge.
those boyds stocks are fantastic value, well put together and they have some great colours to choose from.
unfortunatly they dont have a lot of options in lefthand and i priced the blanks to freight and it was over $100 just for freight.
i suppose it is understandable tho as they are fairly big and heavy as a blank.
are you going to bed them? the m77 is a little tricky to bed but not too bad. i would be more than happy to help but dunno how far from darwin you are? if i can help in any way let me know.
all the best
greg

I got some alloy pillers from Brownells for mk2 ruger and have done 1 stock the angled
front screw is a pain & i am not really happy wtth the job .
the rifle groups very well 6.5 grendel with 100grain sierras, the bedding does look not
neat with the metal work removed, used armour grout as bedding material
any tips on bedding rugers would be appreciated but i live in brisbane.

Originally Posted by rdog

I got some alloy pillers from Brownells for mk2 ruger and have done 1 stock the angled
front screw is a pain & i am not really happy wtth the job .
the rifle groups very well 6.5 grendel with 100grain sierras, the bedding does look not
neat with the metal work removed, used armour grout as bedding material
any tips on bedding rugers would be appreciated but i live in brisbane.

those pillars are exelent.
ok a few tips, key out the wood with a dremel or a small drill bit, say 3 or 4 mm max is good so it looks like this


then i use a butter knife to "spread" the bedding compound. the one i used here is devcon steel, the trick is to spread the compound arround and liberaly coat the area to be bedded.
then i heap some more devcon into the center so when you sit the action into the extra will squeeze out and fill the space. you want too much so the space is filled any extra will be ground/sanded off when it is set.
if you clamp it down and you dont have any compound getting squeesed out, pull it back out and add more then sit the action back into the stock, you want the bedding area filled.
gee its hard to think about this sort of stuff when you not doing it.
i mite run a thread on bedding when i do the next one.
greg