Mr. Peters suggested we gin up a build thread here. For those who aren't familiar with our way of doing stuff, its a bit different from most other shops.

Our stock work begins with a computer model of the footprint that the barreled action is going to occupy in the stock. We adjust it (enlarge) by a controlled amount to allow for floating the barrel and clearance for the bedding compound. Doing it this way allows me to know exactly how thick the bedding is going to be at every contact point. I like this as it delivers a clean presentation once the inletting work starts.

So it begins!


CAD model specific to his barreled action:


Program:



Setup:










Running:

Barreled action fitted to the stock:




Bedded. Just a waitin game now:

Looks good Chad, I will give it a test drive when I get home.

Looks like 'nother nice'n Pappy. Lookin' forward to the test drive report.

Chad, nice bathroom.... *grin*

This one is for a client so as soon as I get home I will mount it up and get it going for him.

Chad, sounds like the 50 BMG reamer shipped friday so when your ready do your thing. 458 LOTT reamer is on order.

Shawn,

Great! Just got into the shop. We'll be popping her out this am and werkin the stock over.

I'll be calling sometime today so keep the phone handy.

C.

Stock is bedded and the top side machine work is all done. Picked up the Dakota Arms bar stock machined floor metal this morning. Were gonna flip her over and commence on the bottom side soon as I finish the primary inlet on another stock.

Here's the pics!

I know that thing is done Chad, no sense in letting it sit in the corner, lets see how she shoots.

Chad,
The 280AI you did for me is a wicked sob. So much so I put another in the mail for you to work over. When it shows just throw it in the corner with rest of Pappy's shit.

Thanks Ben

Here she is bitches!

We wrapped her up today. So far only one proof load down the tube. I've got a few more that were super close to finishing so we'll save the chootin to when we can batch them all together in a day. This piece went together pretty nice. The stock was a bit of work on the tang area. McMillan sets them up so that you just blast out the tang with a big cutter. As a result it requires quite a bit of body work to get everything blended together nice and perty. Someday (soon I hope) I'll be looking into building stocks in house out of composite, then we won't have to deal with this kind of crap anymore.



Enjoy,

C.









I burnt the chit out of my digits putting the "supah bling" on the follower. Glassy smooth now. Notice the ejection port inletting on the stock. It matches the receiver contour at each corner and on the floor. This too is all surface machined using a 3/16" OD ball endmill with a .005" stepover. Just buzzes back and forth at 75IPM and 10Krpm as it whittles away on the stock. Ready to run right out of the machine this way. No file work other than running a needle file over the edges to keep from cutting myself. Carbon fiber doesn't mess around. It loves to eat people!



Seamless transition from tang to stock. Clean inletting on the bolt handle too. Notice the little gap at the back of the tang were it transitions to the stock grip? This is by design. A 7lb 7mm Rem Mag has a little snort to it. The stock is going to flex under recoil. Blending a stock like this on the tang is nice but one has to go into it knowing that the ass of the receiver will act like a chisel. It'll try like hell to chip/blast a nice chunk out the back. The .01" clearance allows for some room so that when its rockin n rollin in the stock all the pieces stay put.