Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

Finished stock.  Note the adjustable cheekpiece as a space / gap at the rear of the stock.  The allows the shooter to adjust heel and toe without binding between the cheekpiece andt he stock.  The Koa is a Hawaiian wood.  It has been curing in my shop for 2-3 years, just waiting for the right time to become a stock.

Hawaiian Koa is one of the world’s most beautiful hardwoods, which grows only in Hawaii. Koa is world renowned, and used for the highest value finishes in furniture and commercially used products.

Koa trees are rare, tropical hardwood generally found at elevations of 2000 plus feet on the upper slopes of the islands of Hawaii (Big Island) and Maui. Koa tree reaches in height of 100 feet or more, with trunk diameters as large as 5 feet. This unique, native wood is prized for its beautiful range of color and lustrous grain from near black through reds, orange and russet tones to yellow and gold. The grain with its wavy lines and swirling color, give luster and a sense of depth of Koa unequaled by any other exotic wood in the world.

This is the completed forend and stock for a a #1 Ruger. The forend was so damaged in a fire that it could not be used; however, the stock was functional. I made a complete new forend and refinished the stock and re-cut the checkering.

2013 Rocky Mountain Palma and Santa Fe Trail LR Regional Winner

By Lige Harris

July 15, 2013

There were 9 F/TR shooters in the Palma and 10 F/TR shooters in the LRR.  Trudie Fay and Lige Harris finished  top 2 in both events with Lige winning the Palma and Trudie winning the LRR.  I shot my Yellow  BAT Krieger in all but a couple of the stages when I switched to the Big Horn Broughton in Doan’s lightweight spruce stock. The Yellow rifle was shooting  185’s very well but I had too hot a load the first day and was afraid of it by the afternoon so I switched to the Big Horn for the first 1K stage. That didn’t work very well and the next time I tried that rifle was in the first match of the LRR when it was dead calm. It was still disappointing as I dropped 8 pts to vertical.  I returned to the Yellow BAT and was tied with Trudie and the end of the 4^th match but drew the sorry relay for match 5 and got whipped big time. Back to the drawing board with the heavy bullet bbl/load.  The Big Horn/Broughton shooting 215’s has always shown some vertical in about 20% of the shots in testing but it was double that in the matches? I still like the way it handles recoil and the adjustments in Doan’s stock are a real plus.  I have switched the Broughton bbl for the Hawk Hill 1-11 and have big hopes for it in the Fclass Nationals this August.

Using a rear offset site that I made

The white blank in the background is the piece of Rosewood. The pattern is for a 3000 Mauser. It will be duplicated and bedded for a 3000 Mauser.

The flexible cable is connected to the windage table and it’s right next to the fine elevation adjustment. Rifle pictures tomorrow.