Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

Between working on completing stocks and duplicating stocks, I have been keeping busy. Which is great!

These two pictures show stocks tough of the duplicator, the second picture shows them sanded with pistol grips caps.

A number of years ago I made some fiberglass and polyester resin stocks with balsa wood cores. They finished out at approximately 11 to 12 ounces. Because the stocks were so light, you could still use the inch and a quarter barrel and make the light weight requirement; but needless to say they changed the rules. The workmanship on this carbon fiber stock and the shape of the stock is outstanding, but there are some limitations with the interior. The balsa wood is fine. The stock has a red Cedar core, which can be sensitive when you glue a pillar into it with very little surface area. The reason is because red Cedar has its own natural oils, which is why they make red cedar shingles to repel water and bugs, and last for years.. If a piece of instrument grade spruce was used for this, similar to the spruce that I use in my FT/r stocks, this might be a better solution. Spruce lends itself to almost every type of glue available and is more rigid. Countless number of airplanes have been built from Spruce including the Spruce Goose. The following pictures depict what I did to solve some of the problems. I removed the red Cedar and replaced it with a pillarized bedding block. I added an adjustable buttplate that is adjustable for up-and-down and cast on cast off. The rifle still makes FT/R weight with an F / Open size barrel.

At first glance this wood appears to be unremarkable. But as you look at it, the patterns of burls and flowers appear. It’s really beautiful.

Congratulations to Derek Rodgers on his FTR win. I am proud to say that this is the blue rifle that I built for him which can be seen on my website.

Congratulations to Allen Thomas and Peter Church who both used rifles that I barreled with Hart barrels.

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.