Ultimate varmint stock

[Brad Y]

Righto Im on the lookout for reasons for the best varmint stock to use out of a ute. Its how I do most of my spotlighting with the odd bit of set up over a target and a little out of a ute. Ive had a more conventional shape stock for a while and havent enjoyed it for how I like shooting. Im looking at a thumbhole with a fairly low profile. Is there anything else you would have?

[Camel]

I like Boyds line, few reasons, they fit my hand well, long and skinny fingers, they are cheap and it doesn't matter when they get knocked around, were easy to obtain, although that may have changed now with their price increases. Can be a bit on the short side for length of pull, but I stick a 1 inch pad on and that fixes that problem.

[trevort]

flat forend long enough to be able to use the door mounted rest comfortably

[Brad Y]

Thanks fellas. Might make a start on it this arvo- have a nice bit of sheoak lined up.

[trevort]

Don't post fucken pictures.. If you get it right and aligned with my view of aesthetics it could cause me trouble

[mick_762]

Thanks fellas. Might make a start on it this arvo- have a nice bit of sheoak lined up.

sheoak? Mmmm nice..... but is it not a bit on the soft side for a hi energy calibre?

Never seen one on a center fire over .17/22 Hornet always been warned away as its too soft - more than happy to be wrong though.
Sheoak would look fanfuckingtastic though.

Mick

[Brad Y]

I know of a few sheoak stocks that do fine. Its only a 6br and will be bedded with decent pillars and devcon too. Doubt it will move much. Will be good to have a timber stock that I can actually oil up for a change.

[WARDY91]

I had a sheok stock on my 308 recoil didn't seem to bother it. Falling out of the safe onto the concrete and scope was enough to snap it clean In half through the pistol grip area.

[mistit]

Ok Brad , heres what i reckon and i either shoot out the window or off a bench ,ive tried everything in the last 20 years,the gun must be balanced,so if its got a long heavy barrel make the forend long enough so you dont have a barrel heavy gun on the rest ,sounds funny but like on a bench, the gun wont track backwards properly even though its only moving 1/2 inch it will nose dive.Flat forends are useless you need a semi rounded bottom maybe an inch of close to flat then rounded from there you need to be able to roll the gun ,ive always found either a thumbhole or pistol grip the easiest to hang on to and pull the gun back into your shoulder (very important)im currently using a mcmillan a2 and reckon its the perfect profile ,and i like mine shortish in the butt ,just a side note i no you like big barrels from what ive seen but standard varmint weight barrels are the best out of the car for ease to move around and balance :DIf i was shooting every night like camel id want it very light and easy to move espescially seen most professional shooters dont shoot past 100 yds

[trevort]

Why do you need to roll the gun?

[mistit]

Why do you need to roll the gun?

Because Trev when your shooting in them hills nothing is level and even on the plains it's still a must , I tried a 2inch and 3 inch flat for end and was hard to get the gun to sit right unless your rest has a sand bag at the front

[trevort]

OK I get it, you do want the forend flat/level but depending on the angle of the ute on a slope and the angle of the critter on a hill, flat relative to target may not mean where a flat bottom wants to sit on the door rest.

I'm with you now.

dont have much experience in that type of shooting though

[Brad Y]

Never had a problem with that- have shot on the back of a ute on hills with the bipod out and no adjustment. And I live in a flat area so flat bottomed was something I was seriously looking at. I like the look of some of those flat bottom thumbholes that Richard Franklin has on accurateshooter. Was thinking of something around 2-2.5 inches flat and nice and low in the stock. I like heavy barrels and currently using a HV krieger 26 inches. Must admit Ive been very tempted to knock it back to 22 just for handling in the ute.

[Glenn]

I agree with mistit!

I shoot out of the car off a pool noodle and off the mirror all the time.
This is what I ended up with.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19301

The whole gun changed!
Handles way better!

I had a barrel turned down due to being to barrel heavy. Made a huge difference!

Cutting 4 inches of a barrel is not the answer.
I want the noise as far away from me as I can get!
People hope in and out of cars with 30 inch barreled shotguns all the time!
We use 26 inch barrels out of the car all the time with no issue.

The barrel profile on the above gun will be smaller when it rebarrelled.

Glenn

[mistit]

I love that gun Glenn , 26 inches is not a problem as you say as long as it's balanced , the thumb hole set up looks bloody nice