Steyr Pro Hunter stocks available at Boyd's

[BurnOut]

While a far cry from being a tactically-oriented rifle, the Steyr Pro Hunter is a great (if uncommon) hunting rifle. I have one in 30-06, and was planning a couple of years ago to put it in a Boyd's stock. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to wanting to place my order, Boyd's no longer offered any stocks for the Pro Hunter and told me that it was a limited run offering... and that I needed to just check back with them periodically.

I have been doing that for the last couple of years, and today it finally paid off... they're offering replacement stocks for the Pro Hunter again. So, order placed. I doubt that many here on this forum will find it to be pertinent information, but because off-the-shelf replacement stocks for the Pro Hunter are so damned difficult to find I wanted to make sure to let everyone know, just in case...

 

[Billiam1211]

Did you ever pick one up? If so, how did it turn out?

I have a pro hunter in 270 and the flex in the factory stock is throwing off my accuracy testing.

 

[BurnOut]

I did, and I'm pretty happy with it. As with most stocks from Boyd's, I had to open it up a bit here and there. No big deal, and the end result is a definite improvement over the factory piece.

 

[Billiam1211]

I have no experience with Boyd’s. Did you have to end up glass bedding it or did it require some dremel or sanding work?

 

[BurnOut]

On that one I just needed to use a Dremel in a few spots. Over the years, I have used several Boyd's stocks, and have found them to be around 95%-98% drop-in for factory barreled actions. One trick I have picked up is that if your barrel is not centered in the barrel channel, check the tang area... it may need to be opened up, deepened, or reshaped a bit in order to let the barrel ride the center of the channel.

On the ones where I have done some bedding, I just use JB Weld. It's not the world's best bedding compound (though it is apparently The World's Finest Cold Weld™ ), but it's serving me just fine; I'd be shocked if there were a quantifiable difference between JB Weld and MarineTex or any of the others for the barreled actions I've bedded with it. The good thing with JB Weld is that it is easy to mix in just the right quantity, and it's cheap. To prep the surface of the wood stock, I typically just hit it with some 180 grit to knock the sheen off of it, and wipe it with an acetone-moistened patch.