Anybody hogged out a factory Tikka stock to sendero?

[Ranger 692]

Anybody done this successfully? I’ve got a sendero profile carbon barrel I’d like to make fit in factory stock temporarily as I wait for another stock. Just not sure if it’s too much hogging and will compromise the stock.

 

[Steve300xcw]

New stocks are cheap if it dont work out

 

[Wapiti151]

New stocks are cheap if it dont work out

Agreed. Stocky’s blem sales for the win!

 

[Steve300xcw]

Agreed. Stocky’s blem sales for the win!

He said factory stock. Thats $50-$75ish

Are those stockys blems worth a shit? What do they improve on?

 

[Chris in TN]

I've went to ridiculous lengths on an old R700 BDL walnut stock. Easily floated a Bartlein 3B when I was done.

I don't think you'd hurt a Tikka stock. If you got carried away and the forend felt weak you could shorten it an inch or two and reattach a sling swivel further back, in epoxy. Or perhaps epoxy an aluminum arrow shaft into the bottom of the channel to stiffen it.

I had to hog out a Boyd's laminated stock a lot for a muzzleloader once and when I was finished I epoxied an arrow shaft into the ramrod channel. That was more for making a way to hold a ramrod, but the concept seems to work.