Looks great Dan!!

Hey Dan. I'm dying to hear how the new rifle shoots! Any updates for the peanut galler?

dustinflint wrote:

Jerry G wrote:Woodies are great and that is a fine one Dan, but............. gun stocks should be plastic if they are going to be exposed to any kind of weather or changing humidity.

That stock is from Treebone so the wood has been off the tree for 30+ years. Any swelling or deformation that piece of wood was going to do was done during the first 10 years after it was cut. It's not moving any more regardless of the elements and that stock is just as good as any plastic or composite stock. People who don't like wood stocks are either parroting what they heard someone else say or their only experience is with the cheap wood stocks that come on some mass production rifles that are made from wood that is not properly aged and still green.

That is a fine stock. The ONLY issue with a Treebone stock for a silhouette rifle is the weight of some types of wood.

Dustin

The late Bob Pease (one of the early experimenters with pillar bedding with Devcon) used to say "there's nothing wrong with a wood stock...once you get arid of the wood."

Translation: unless you have a terrible piece of wood and don't bed it right, it will shoot competitively in benchrest. Silhouette is a piece of cake...well, at least as far as the rifle's performance is concerned.

"Plastic" stocks are simply easier to manufacture, easier to bed and therefore more consistent from one rifle to the next, especially in terms of weight, than most wood stocks.

Years ago the Gugeon brothers pioneered the WEST (Wood Epoxy Saturation Technique) System of building sailboat hulls and left some fiberglass hull manufacturers in their wake. Wood is OK, and, besides, it still looks beautiful.

Gents,

Just some got time to fire-form 7-04 cases with 21.0 gr of H4198 under the 162 Hornady A-Max. Accuracy was about 1/2 MOA at 100-yds, sloppy shooting on my part to be sure. MV avg was 1,958 fps for 50 rounds with an extreme spread of 27 fps. This was quick, sloppy loading and shooting to fire-form the cases. The goal is 30.0-gr of VarGet pushing the 162 SST to 2,400 fps. Short line taken care of with the 139 SST's' at about 1,800 fps under 18.0-gr of H4198.