Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

So proud of my wife.  She qualified today for her CCL with a PERFECT score!

25 out of 25!  Liners count!

This is a left-handed English walnut stock that I duplicated when I did the Spruce stock. Ironically the two owners are almost neighbors.

I’ve duplicated the stock in an H & H pattern, made a bedding block and bedded the rifle. I also put a canted site block on the rifle, using a cam degree wheel from a Triumph motorcycle to give me the 10° of cant. I knew I would have a reason for saving the degree wheel

March 4 -6 1960
Spalding Gray, (Spud Gray), (actor and writer and high school buddy) and I decided to go to Boston to visit friends at Babson College. We started hitchhiking in our first ride took us to Ossipee New Hampshire where the second ride, a fellow in a 56 Ford picked us up and told us to get in the backseat, that we would be good for traction. He didn’t speak for a long time until we got to interstate 95 when he asked us where we were going and we replied Newton Falls. When we got to route 128, he again asked us where and we replied with the name of the bar that we were going to and he commented that it wasn’t far from where his son lived. He dropped us off there and we met our friends from Babson. After a while we went back to Babson College. There was a lot of snow, but we made it back to the school. The next morning one of our friends announced that we had work. We shoveled driveways and made $100 apiece. Sunday morning we hitchhiked back to Freiburg Maine. So much for a party weekend. The $100 is what I bought the Rossignol skis with, which I still have today. This turned out to be the ninth largest storm in the Boston area ever. And we didn’t think it was a lot of snow. I think the weather reports lately are blown out of proportion.

Note that the piece of Ebony is to fill the gap between the low rider extender and the stock . And it matches the pistol grip and the other pieces of ebony inlay.

I am converting this stock into a low rider with a titanium adapter. What a beautiful piece of wood this is!

I am in the process of bedding, weighing all of the parts, and finishing the stock. It will be painted Lapua blue. The goal is to have a finished weight of approximately 4 pounds. The problem is that the finish adds approximately 4 to 5 ounces and butt plates and adjustable cheek pieces add even more weight. It’s a challenge. Plus it has a bedding block for a Barnard action.

Back in October an amazing thing happened, Derek Rodgers set a new 1000-yard National Record at the Arizona Long Range Regional in Phoenix.

His rifle was built by me, Doan Trevor.

See here: https://doantrevor.com/2013/09/29/national-rifle-champion-trades-chickens-for-rilebuilding/

It was an honor to build Derek this winning piece of equipment. It’s also been a pleasure to call him a friend.

I’m no longer mad at him for waking me up at the Berger Tent, when he broke his record for the second time in two days. I just think that maybe he owes me another chicken. 🙂

Congrats, Derek!!

Seriously, a chicken….

One is a light weight F-TR Spruce stock. The other is a fine piece a English Walnut. During the duplicating process I took the F-TR rear slide off the template to make the walnut prone stock.

Duplicating the owners stock to be used from his pattern for FTR class.

Note that I used some of the excess wood from the stock blank to make a 3 inch Foreend. I should have taken pictures of the narrow piece of wood but I didn’t. The laminated pieces match very well.

The owner of this rifle won a 20% discount certificate at the Firecracker Match.

Note the FTR rail for bipod and bottom ventilation. Extra wood was added for 3 inch fore end. The wood match came out quite well. Additional wood needs to be added to get the 3 inch Foreende because most of the blanks are 2 1/2 inches and matching the wood is a real problem, or you need to make a feature out of the matching pieces of wood.

A great shot of Derek and his dad, Stan, at the F class nationals in Phoenix. Here is a link showing the progress as I built the rifle for him. And here is  a link to the article on accurate shooter.com.

Separating the Cheekpiece

Bedding Block

Receiver sitting in Bedding Compound

Receiver out of bedding compound and stock.  The pillars are part of the bedding block, which eliminates stress from the wood.

Customer will use this stock for both Open F/Class and FTR.  The rail will be used for FTR.

Inlet for trigger guard

Pistol grip cap unfinished

Start of shadow line for rollover cheekpiece.  Note shadow line on both sides of stock, just a decorative touch.

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He’s fine and back to work today!