![]() ![]() Old World and many New World gunmakers-stock making as a specialty is a relatively new phenomenon-gathered input from their customers and continued to refine the design, execution and materials of their rifle stocks. These stocks are also quite short by today’s standards in length of pull because most people were shorter several hundred years ago than today. Other early rifle stocks had what would now be described as considerable “drop at the comb and heel” because most shooters thought that the only way to shoot a rifle was standing up, with the head erect. Thankfully, we have evolved considerably. Many of the 12th and 13th century gonnes were a tube closed at one end, loaded from the muzzle and fitted with a metal spike to be driven into a log at the site and then fired. ![]() Some of the first firearm stocks preceded the concept of rifling-therefore a rifle-and were designed at hand in the field to simply support the firearm and protect the shooter from injury. Finally, a good stock allows the shooter to control the rifle and enhance his or her ability to hold the rifle perfectly still for the shot. Good rifle stocks also should provide rock-solid support of the rifle’s receiver and either have just enough support of the barrel to dampen its accuracy-depriving vibrations, or allow the barrel to vibrate freely and repeatedly. Its foremost purpose is to allow the shooter a repeatable point of contact in relation to the rifle’s aiming device. A rifle stock is a device that provides an interface between the shooter and the rifle. Perhaps the first order of business is to define what a rifle stock is as well as its purpose. It might be a prudent exercise to examine exactly what a rifle stock is and should be. Today stocks are made of a variety of modern components, many of the materials concocted by man, others of metal, but fewer are made in the classic walnut. They used to be made of wood nearly exclusively-usually walnut-and a good one was one that had a pleasing grain figure and sharp, well-cut checkering. Like most firearms and their components, rifle stocks have gone through a profound revolution during the past two decades. Weatherby Vanguard Camilla, Bergara HMR, Savage MSR 10 Long Range ![]()
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