Re: aics savage?
Hi, new to the site, and to long guns. I have a homemade AICS-style stock I made just because savage stock is ugly and I wanted something more comfortable to shoot on. But a disclaimer, 1:it's my first large caliber rifle and it's in the poor man's 30.06. 2: I am by no means a a seasoned or expert shooter, have some prior military as 0341 but nothing like what you folks do, and just recently decided to see if I had any interest in the long range shooting, and I found a Savage 110 along with 120 rnds for $330 on gunbroker so I said why not? Cheap starter rifle, basicly free ammunition. 3: I don't have the money, skills, or technical know-how to even compare to you guys, like I said new to it and am just feeling my way around. Besides I want to see if I can shoot the distance, I wanna learn so dropping a couple grand on rifle and pretending I know what I'm doing sounds foolish so starting small.
Anyways I wasn't going to mess with any of the vitals that touch the stock, so I basicly did a little cutting, a little molding with some douglas fir(b/c of it's high durability, high strength, and high fiber stress in bending), some fiberglass (alot of fiberglass), some bondo-glass just to smooth it out, and paint. Ghetto yes, but its solid, has roughly the same design as an AICS, with nothing vital changed just the exterior shape.
Bash away if you want, rip me a new one if you feel like it, but it's my rifle and it might even seem ghetto or redneck-ish, but it works for me, holds up solid with the recoil, I'm not rich or an expert, just doing what I can afford, adapt if you have to right? I am a newbie. besides the stock basicly cost me about $20.
cannot find my camera, but I will toss a picture up tom.