Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

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.

This will have a bedding block.

These will need to dry for some time before I can work with them. One of the blanks has quite a bit of fiddleback, And the other blank has a nice speckling. If you are looking for something different, all of these will make a unique custom stock.

Here is an example of a mango stock I finished a few months ago.

Bedding completed and now making a trigger guard.

Smoothing out the stock blank rough finish from the duplicator.

Lately there have been requests for an F class open stock. I have created a pattern for my duplicating machine. One of the unique things on the stock is that the rear slider is relieved so it does not drag on the bags.

This project was a challenge. I was sent a thumbhole stock and need to put a length of pull adjustment from 12.5″ to 14″ and needed fit pieces on the rear wood, because of the sizes of the hardware. I had to redesign the buttplate to use the Anschutz buttplate and the cheek riser. The size the action is conciderably larger than the orginal Anschutz. This also involved making a trigger guard to adapt to the Barnard trigger. This project reminded me of when put a 327 Corvette motor into a 100/6 Austin Healy.

The cheekpiece riser is installed, and the machined parts to adapt and Anschutz buttplate is installed.
I was able to achieve a length of pull from 12-1/2 to 14 inches.

The problem is when using the standard button head screw The Allen socket will strip out. By using a 5/16 inch button head screw, you can use a 3/16 inch Allen wrench. I have to turn them down and rethread them to 1/4-28 tpi.