Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

This stock blank has been around for a few years. Notice that this was before zip codes! This is a piece of curly Myrtle that will become a prone stock for a short range 52 rim fire.

This can be used with either two or three action screws so that a different action can be used in one stock.

Normally Fortner actions are used for Biathlon. The owner wanted this left-handed action.

Contouring the butt plate

Congratulations to Derek Rodgers for taking first place in the first-ever Sinclair International East Coast Fullbore Nationals (ECN) was held at Camp Butner (NC) on April 18-21, 2013.  Here is a link to the article written by Accurate Shooter .

Here are photos of his rifle as I was in the process of building it.

Cutting the slot for the thumbwheel

The goal was to create a lightweight stock for F/TR class shooting. The stock finishes at 3 lbs. 7 oz. The weight includes the adjustable buttplate, the adjustable cheek piece, trigger guard, action screws, bedding and bedding block, and front bipod attachment. With the action and heavy palma barrel it weighs 11 pounds.

This is a thumbhole stock that did not have an adjustable cheekpiece on it. In the process of building the cheekpiece, the owner wanted the stock refinished with the goal of keeping it as original as possible.

See refinishing in process here.

Scott Fullmer’s daughter Morgan is in Africa a Palma Match.  I finished the rifle for her a few weeks ago – here are the finished pictures.

Good Luck, Morgan!

Stock is being refinished and an adjustable cheek piece being added. The reason for the flat piece on the adjuster Is so that the legs from the adjustable buttplate do not hit the cheek adjuster.

New Fancy Wood Grips in Stock – English, Bastone and Claro Walnut – $205 includes satin or gloss finishing, stippling and shipping

Standard Wood Grips in Stock $185 includes satin or gloss finishing, stippling and shipping

I’ll need a tracing of your hand to customize and finish grip.

It’s necessary to have a method to attach the front site globe to the offset arm. This is one of the methods. Rather than drilling and tapping the globe, I used the Redfield dovetail and made a base to fit it. Note that the bottom of the base is in three minute increments to match one turn of the rear sight so that you can center up the rear sight.

Thanks for everything, Mike. You were a great help to me.

Link to Accurate Shooter Article here.

Inlay is Purple Heart with matching inserts from the pistol grip wood.

Inlay is Purple Heart inlaid with English Walnut plugs. The pistol grip and the diamonds are English walnut inlaid with purple heart. The original stock is some sort of Maple.

Maple stock with ebony pistol grip cap. The owner of this rifle wanted to have all of his rifles match and for this one to mimic his smallbore rifle. I worked on his smallbore rifle which had a Karl Kenyon action and he went on to win The Made in America Match at Camp Perry. Last year, at the Wildcat Match, he won a certificate to have a rifle built. This one has a Gilkes Ross action.