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Boyd’s stock on T3 Lite?
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I hope we can agree to disagree…
Here's 5 of my personal Synthetic Stock T3's that I shoot on a regular basis…
All 5 free floated barrels give a consistent shooting base for developing handloads, with no worry of harmonic changes from stock flex or obstructions in the barrel channel, I only need to worry about heat soak… All 5 guns did shoot Moa or sub-Moa groups as TIKKA claimed before floating the barrels, but for every good group you would have twice as many with fliers and situations similar to double grouping caused by stock on barrel contact from heat or fixing the stock on bags or bipod, none of that after the barrels were floated.Each of these rifles will receive a full action bedding or complete stock change if there is any stock compression issue in the future degrading accuracy,… Thats the only time you need to bed these stocks, is if you already have compressed or damaged the action/mag area and can't get a correct solid repeatable action seating & torque setting…you don't need to jump right into a full bedding job if you float the barrel and accuracy improves…thats my approach with these synthetic stocks. It may go against the grain on most traditional thinking but these 5 rifles (even the Battue) can punch a 3 shot single hole group quite often at 100 with handloads…the same approach as worked for numerous friends and guys at my range. So I'm not spreading or selling snake oil, just a lot of experience with these guns.
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My experience with Boyd's stocks is limited to the pro varmint model In which I just bedded my b-mag. Jason is totally correct about the marginal quality of the inletting. It seemed that every dimension was off just enough to make trouble. After 2 days of sanding, chiseling, drilling, grinding and installing the barreled action at least 30 times I finally had that time-sucker ready for the Devcon. I'm still not totally satisfied with the results (although the Devcon process went great- thanks Dogdown and Yukonal- clean and no bubbles). I would not tackle a Boyd's stock project again unless I had access to an end-mill.
Save yourself some grief and pay more for quality.
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My experience was better. The action fit nice in the Boyds stock. I planed on bedding anyhow so it did not mater as Mr mill gobbled a lot of it out. There a great deal for the price if your willing to work with it.
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The plastic “rib” that is in your stock – was designed to be there for a reason. Rather it is positioned to dampen barrel harmonics – and aid in accuracy for this particular stock/barrel combination.
Lock it into a lead sled at a range.
Speaking of harmonics, perhaps you could explain to us how locking the rifle into a mechanical fixture that doesn't move freely with recoil…will replicate a hunter shooting the said rifle at game…or even come close to duplicating normal sight in/load developement conditions.
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My experience with Boyd's stocks is limited to the pro varmint model In which I just bedded my b-mag. Jason is totally correct about the marginal quality of the inletting. It seemed that every dimension was off just enough to make trouble. After 2 days of sanding, chiseling, drilling, grinding and installing the barreled action at least 30 times I finally had that time-sucker ready for the Devcon. I'm still not totally satisfied with the results (although the Devcon process went great- thanks Dogdown and Yukonal- clean and no bubbles). I would not tackle a Boyd's stock project again unless I had access to an end-mill.
Save yourself some grief and pay more for quality.
I agree that the inletting is not great, but if you plan to bed that's not an issue. With a Dremmel I removed about 60-80 thou all through the action area and an inch down the barrel channel. I then wrapped a piece of wooden broom handle in sandpaper and opened up the barrel channel and finally sanded along the top line to get a smooth line on each side. That all took about 90 minutes. Once the bedding was cured I sanded along the top edge, cleaned out the mag well with the Dremmel, relived the bedding at the front face of the action and applied yacht varnish in the barrel channel to seal it. Probably 4 hours all up.
It's not that hard and is worth a try. The stocks are good value for money really.
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I would say that you should stay away from Boyd's. I've spent hours fixing inlets for customers. There just isn't any quality there.
You're the first person to complain about the Captcha. You must have had a fluke one.
I agree with Captcha…. it stinks and I have 20/10 eye sight….
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