Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

How do you change a blank into a Mc Trudie stock? The bluish colored stock in the photo is a Mc Trudie pattern which is a Steve McGee pattern with a smaller pistol grip and the stock is lighter (I’ve done  a lot of wood rasping and sanding to modify to fit the Mc Trudie pattern). This stock will be used for F TR  and I’m doing a lot of lightning to the stock to make weight so that I can use a heavy barrel with the Stolle Panda action.

Getting things done for the match his taken precedence over posting. Here are some of the latest projects. 

I found it necessary to laminate pieces on the side to get the correct width to make this stock wide enough for F class. I was able to use some of the excess wood from the stock to match the grain of the forend. I also added a third action screw and added a recoil lug.

These two stocks are new production blanks from Will McCloskey.  They are unique because they use nicely figured wood on the outside panels. I like this method and I have used it for years because it is very stable. I’ve completed the bedding and inletting. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the rough stocks as I received them. Very easy to work with!

A friend sent be a beautiful block of quilted fiddle back Maple and a picture.

This is what I came up with… I also barreled it with a Hart Rimfire Barrel. 

A customer came to me wanting to know if I could build a stock that was 2 pounds or less.  I used the Koa because it is a lower specific gravity than Walnut (which makes it lighter) and stronger. I was still able to use pillar bedding and keep the weight down. The fore end could be shortened to reduce the weight even more. Since the drops on a silloute rifle are different than a prone rifle, I kept the pistol grip from the prone rifle which is comfortable and tried to come up with a higher cheek piece  and more drop to the buttplate.  All of this required lots of hand carving.

Here are the final pictures that I forgot to take before shipping.

One of the problems with working with a piece of wood like this is that is that the wood goes from being very hard to very soft too quickly and the grain runs in all directions.  It’s a challenge to work with!

I’m sorry I didn’t take pictures of the finished stock before I shipped it off to its owner.

Not the new supervisor. 

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I have been using three  action screws on Bernard actions for approximately 14 years and it’s nice to see that others have followed suit.

This turned out to be a really nice piece of wood. I’ve had hanging around for a few years waiting for the right project. The pistol cap has burls that look like an owl. This stock has many little burls that are flowers.

In the duplicator, there is the Claro and a mango stock blank. The mango if it turns out light enough will be for a silhouette stock.

Here’s a photo from 1996 National Team Match – Winners 2nd Place Overall at Camp Perry, Ohio

For the Romanian Trophy.

Doan Trevor, Terry Glenn, Bill Parritt, Ron Michon

I had forgotten all about this. What a find and a great memory!

Ron won The Colorado Prone State Championship with a rifle I built him about two years ago. 

Way to go, my friend!

Here’s where I repaired it. It got dropped and went KERPLUNK!

As some of you know my daughter Clare has been out here visiting. She found some old-ish photos.

This one is from the Liverpool, NY Rifle Club. (Clare reminded me how she froze her tuckus off many winters at this club.) This was from a weekend morning in 1985. There was an article in the local paper. This picture was from that story.. some how I walked away with an 8 X 10 B&W Glossy Picture.

Here we are 4 years later (10 Sept. 1989) at the Camillus, NY Rifle Club. Clare got a kick out of this photo. She spent many Friday evenings and Sundays in the summer here, pulling targets.

Hope y’all have enjoyed the trip down memory lane as much as the kid and I have.

Cheers,

Doan and Clare

I have finished all five sights.

3 are still available.

Congratulations to Trudie Fay, Derek Rodgers, Jim Gaines, Dean Wheeler and the rest of the amazing shooters that shot some of the rifles that I have built and/or fine-tuned! If you have been left out, I’m suffering from CRS! Please let me know and I will have my unpaid assistant (this month, it’s Clare) add you to this post!

You all made an old guy feel pretty dang awesome!

(Derek and Trudie also set National Records!)

I am making 5 rear offset sights!

2 of them are already spoken for.

I’ve been doing a lot of woodwork, so time for some metalwork.

Here’s the finished Bastogne Stock.

This is not tomato soup and olives. It’s old fashioned blue process. Called Baker’s Express. Those are the two escutcheon that go under the front action screws of both the Claro and Bastogne stocks.

Today, I finished a thing. It’s only 102 here in Albuquerque.

The Claro stock is getting finished up. The Bastogne is progressing well.

It’s challenging to fit trigger guards when they are already blued, but I an occasional challenge keeps me on my toes.