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From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Re: Fiberglass Stocks for Rem. 308
Message-ID: <2729@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 11:37:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 11:37:56 1987
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Author: marcum@Sun.COM (Alan M. Marcum)

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In <2666@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> hplabs!hplb29a!clarke (Marc Clarke) wrote:
>								  I took
>the gun in to my favorite gunsmith and asked that the gun be fiberglass
>bedded and the barrel free floated.  I verified that the barrel was
>indeed free floating before I left the shop.  The action was bedded
>well, with no bubbles or cracks visible in the fiberglass.  The stock
>remained free floating for about a week, and then I found that the stock
>was firmly contacting the barrel....
>I have somehow gotten the impression that wood stocks are perhaps not
>terribly stable, even when completely sealed with polyurethane.

Much depends on the quality of the stock, and how well cured the wood is.
I've never had such a problem on, for example, my Walther GX-1, despite
transporting it in an unheated trailer in New England winters (and then
straight into the range), and shooting in Phoenix coming from a much
moister climate.

I new stock of some sort might well be an answer.  I've seen a few
fiberglass stocks, and expected that they'd be much more popular by now
than they are (so I wonder about them?).


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Alan M. Marcum				Sun Microsystems, Technical Consulting
marcum@nescorna.Sun.COM			Mountain View, California