Experience with Boyds Quest stock?

[Neilbob]

Anyone have experience with the Boyd’s quest stocks? Thinking about one for my browning x bolt (not many stock options). Seems to check a lot of boxes, lighter weight at 2.3 pounds, vertical grip, reasonable price, etc.

 

[KJ_ND]

I don't have experience with the quest but boyd's stock require bedding and some sanding to get dialed in my experience.

 

[SloppyJ]

No experience with that specific model but I "built" a cheap beater savage axis I had laying around and got one of their stocks for it. I was a little upset about the factory inletting on the stock. It took quite a bit of work making sure my stock fit my action. I ended up spending quite a while on it and bedded it with marine tex. If you're not scared of some work and bedding, go for it.

 

[Neilbob]

Thanks. I do some woodworking as a hobby, so I don’t mind a little sanding / fitting.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Boyd’s products are very low quality.

 

[frostop]

I have restocked at least 4 different rifle's with Boyds Stocks.
I have had very good experience with them. If your rifle is outside "stock" parameters than yes your will need to do some additional work. It is my opinion that all rifles need to be bedded with no exceptions except maybe an aluminum chassis type stock and I've heard of guys bedding those. I've not had any quality issues at all.

 

[Balderdash]

Old thread, but I'll bump with info. Picked a Quest up on a BF sale. Been running it on a 6.5 PRC Tikka. Like it a lot. Am a big fan of the Boyds pro varmint, of which I have a few and shoot as well as anything. The Quest shares similar stock dimensions but a slimmer forend and the stock cut outs for weight.

One thing I didn't really anticipate with the Quest is how handy it is to carry in hand with the stock cut outs. Just grabbing the wrap around pistol grip makes it easy to hold for long walks and very quick to shoulder. As such, I'm planning to swap it onto a slim contour, short barrel, lightweight 7mm-08 I have to screw together one of these days.