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US Gun Inletting & Stocks, Maryville, California? http://gunstockinletting.com/index.htmlIf so, do you have any comments on your experience? I'm thinking about buying a semi-inlet stock from them.... Thanks!
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They are a big seller on eBay and sometimes the stocks can be bought more cheaply on that site than their own. I'm not very impressed with their Mauser inletting work on their stocks (I understand they're only semi inletted) and I have seen better work. Some of their patterns look like the patterns from the old "Great American Gunstock Co.". I'm not sure what their finished inletting work looks like though. Perhaps they're just leaving a lot more meat on the wood with their semi-inlets.
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Based on what i have SEEN of their listings on Ebay, i would not recommend buying any double gun stocks from them. The quality of the inletting looks questionable at best and i know that on some makers, they are not up to snuff on gauge or year of manifacture variations.
What many of these rifle stock duplication guys dont understand is that with most american made doubles, one size does not fit all.
I dont know what gun you need a stock for, but i recommend you make sure that a pattern that fits your gun is used in the duplication.
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If you are going to duplicate your own stock make it into a perfect pattern stock and pay the little extra to have a very close duplication made of it. A 90 or 95% stock sounds like an easy to finish blank. I'd far rather pay double for a 97-98% inlet stock. None are truly 100% drop in inlet unless they are sloppy as an pig in boots. A excellent job will involve more scraping than cutting.
The 90% you might as well start out with a square blank. It saves you almost nothing. A 95% is better but still leaves a lot of areas to get exactly right. And I hate to see any inlet job which ends up with a glass bedding to take up the slop from a bad inlet job.
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Years ago I bought an English walnut semi-inlet stock from Great American for a Fox and it turned out fine,i have heard some buyers had problems. Bobby
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