A quick back story, bought this skinny barreled Weatherby Vanguard from the old Smith's gun shop located in Sunrise Rise Mall in Corpus Cristi Texas mid to late 80's. I think it was called Sunrise Mall. They've been closed for years. Doubt you'll find a gun shop in a shopping mall in this day and time. Gun always shot pretty good even though it came in Ramline stock and had skinny "1 taper. I stiffened the forearm and bedded it, back then not a lot of options for synthetic stocks. The old gun has been in the safe for all these years. I get it out and oiled it every now and then.
Was on Boyd's website looking at stocks and found a Spike Camp for a Vanguard/Howa. Looked like a light weight stock even for Laminate. I figured I'd have to deal with barrel channel, heavier shorter barrels now days. When bedded it I didn't load it up with Marine-Tex, I laid clay up in the forearm but did fill the gap with the skinny #1 barrel. Bedded the lug in back and little on the sides. Rear tang too along with first 2 1/2 inches of barrel. Even trying to limit bedding comping it came out heavier than I thought it would.
I didn't have a lot of money back in the 80's and early 90's, good job but handicapped sick daughter. Buddy of mine told me the Euro Class Tascos were not exactly low cost but very good scopes for the money with Jap Hakko optics. The old gun ended up with a 3-12 Euro-class 30mm tube Tasco. Been a good clear old scope.
Found a set of Talley light weight mounts in the drawer. Had to take the magazine box down a tick to get it to not bid the action.
Boyd's offers a 1 inch retail pad for the spike camp, nice pad and fits good with no grinding.
I hung it on my bow scale, only scale I had and it weight right at 8.5 pounds. I would have guessed it would have been much lighter. Still came out nice. Be fun to load rounds and hit the range in the near future. Gray marine -Tex matches that gray stock pretty good. Fun easy project for an old retired guy.
Was on Boyd's website looking at stocks and found a Spike Camp for a Vanguard/Howa. Looked like a light weight stock even for Laminate. I figured I'd have to deal with barrel channel, heavier shorter barrels now days. When bedded it I didn't load it up with Marine-Tex, I laid clay up in the forearm but did fill the gap with the skinny #1 barrel. Bedded the lug in back and little on the sides. Rear tang too along with first 2 1/2 inches of barrel. Even trying to limit bedding comping it came out heavier than I thought it would.
I didn't have a lot of money back in the 80's and early 90's, good job but handicapped sick daughter. Buddy of mine told me the Euro Class Tascos were not exactly low cost but very good scopes for the money with Jap Hakko optics. The old gun ended up with a 3-12 Euro-class 30mm tube Tasco. Been a good clear old scope.
Found a set of Talley light weight mounts in the drawer. Had to take the magazine box down a tick to get it to not bid the action.
Boyd's offers a 1 inch retail pad for the spike camp, nice pad and fits good with no grinding.
I hung it on my bow scale, only scale I had and it weight right at 8.5 pounds. I would have guessed it would have been much lighter. Still came out nice. Be fun to load rounds and hit the range in the near future. Gray marine -Tex matches that gray stock pretty good. Fun easy project for an old retired guy.
