Where can you buy a fairly inexpensive wood stock for a Remington Model 7?
I recently bought a Rem Model Seven in .243 Win for a brush rifle for small deer and hogs, but the stock was cut down for a woman, a teenager or a short statured male. Anyway, I think that I got a pretty good deal on it ($375 for the rifle, sling, rings/mounts and a Leopold scope), but I need a full length stock for it. Since I don't have alot of money into it, I didn't really want to spend alot of money on the stock. I'm looking to spend between $50 to $85.
I'd prefer one that's been used to keep the price down, but a new one that isn't to expensive would do okay too. I'd also prefer a wood stock, I like the looks and feel of wood over synthetic. I'll take synthetic if that's all I can get, but I'd rather have wood if I have a choice in the matter and if it isn't too expensive. There's one gun shop that I called and they had a ton of Rem. 700 stocks, but only two Model Seven wood stocks. They wanted $159 for one and $225 for the other (that wasn't even a possibility at that price).
The rest of the gun shops and gun parts stores that I called didn't really have any. Numrich has them for about $100, but that's still a little too expensive. There's another gun shop that has a Remington synthetic stock for $50, but like I said, I'd like to stay with wood. I've seen a bunch of used stocks at gun shows for $30 to $40, but there isn't another gun show locally for a little while. Plus I'm not sure if they were for Rem Model 700's or for the Rem. Model Seven.
There are some Boyd wood stocks for around $60, but I don't have any experience with them and I don't know if they're any good or not. They looked okay to me, but that doesn't always mean that they could just have a picture of their one decent stock and that the rest are of poor quality.
One other question, if it was a new stock, would it need to be glass bedded? Or can you get by without it and still be fairly accurate. All the bolt action rifles that I've ever had or been around have always had all this stuff done to it before I shot them. Up until recently, I was more into shotguns, military rifles and pistols, so I didn't know the answer to this question. I've heard a couple of different opinions about this with half saying "Yes" and the other half saying "No". I tried posting about this in Firearm Accessories, but I haven't gotten any responses yet. I figured that it would fit into this category also since it's about a rifle.
Thanks for any responses.
I recently bought a Rem Model Seven in .243 Win for a brush rifle for small deer and hogs, but the stock was cut down for a woman, a teenager or a short statured male. Anyway, I think that I got a pretty good deal on it ($375 for the rifle, sling, rings/mounts and a Leopold scope), but I need a full length stock for it. Since I don't have alot of money into it, I didn't really want to spend alot of money on the stock. I'm looking to spend between $50 to $85.
I'd prefer one that's been used to keep the price down, but a new one that isn't to expensive would do okay too. I'd also prefer a wood stock, I like the looks and feel of wood over synthetic. I'll take synthetic if that's all I can get, but I'd rather have wood if I have a choice in the matter and if it isn't too expensive. There's one gun shop that I called and they had a ton of Rem. 700 stocks, but only two Model Seven wood stocks. They wanted $159 for one and $225 for the other (that wasn't even a possibility at that price).
The rest of the gun shops and gun parts stores that I called didn't really have any. Numrich has them for about $100, but that's still a little too expensive. There's another gun shop that has a Remington synthetic stock for $50, but like I said, I'd like to stay with wood. I've seen a bunch of used stocks at gun shows for $30 to $40, but there isn't another gun show locally for a little while. Plus I'm not sure if they were for Rem Model 700's or for the Rem. Model Seven.
There are some Boyd wood stocks for around $60, but I don't have any experience with them and I don't know if they're any good or not. They looked okay to me, but that doesn't always mean that they could just have a picture of their one decent stock and that the rest are of poor quality.
One other question, if it was a new stock, would it need to be glass bedded? Or can you get by without it and still be fairly accurate. All the bolt action rifles that I've ever had or been around have always had all this stuff done to it before I shot them. Up until recently, I was more into shotguns, military rifles and pistols, so I didn't know the answer to this question. I've heard a couple of different opinions about this with half saying "Yes" and the other half saying "No". I tried posting about this in Firearm Accessories, but I haven't gotten any responses yet. I figured that it would fit into this category also since it's about a rifle.
Thanks for any responses.
