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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Treloar" data-source="post: 2106293" data-attributes="member: 104002"><p>Hello DMP25-06, we have quite a lot in common having been around in the late 1960's playing with rifles. When Lee Six and Chet Brown were experimenting with these unheard of fiberglass stocks I was making timber stocks. I did try to order one from them but obviously they were overwhelmed with orders. Their stock was far and away the best fiberglass stock and superior to McMillan or my own at that time. The difference was Brown's were made in two parts with the join at the sides, then injected with an epoxy filler in the action area. McMillan's were made in two parts with the seam running through the center barrel channel and bottom, then filled with phenolic micro balloons. Mine were similar to the Brown's but I hadn't perfected the inner solid section that Brown had. After having worked in an aircraft composite factory and had experience seeing these laminates tested to destruction, I have developed one of the lightest strongest one piece carbon stocks made with unidirectional carbon and epoxy resin. No! they are not beautiful and require finishing. In the looks department they fall well behind a beautiful timber stock, but they take a lot of bashing without changing point of impact. This alone saves on barrel life and wasting time zeroing each time before a hunt. Recently I won a bet by running the back wheel of my Ford over a 18oz stock held up under two house bricks. That stock is still worth a barreled action fit. I have never wanted to become a commercial stock maker, just love working with these space age materials. I often ponder how a state of the art product can be made from two plus square meters of fabric and a can of liquid resin.</p><p>Hope I haven't bored you to death or upset any timber guys but thought a little bit of history might be interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Treloar, post: 2106293, member: 104002"] Hello DMP25-06, we have quite a lot in common having been around in the late 1960's playing with rifles. When Lee Six and Chet Brown were experimenting with these unheard of fiberglass stocks I was making timber stocks. I did try to order one from them but obviously they were overwhelmed with orders. Their stock was far and away the best fiberglass stock and superior to McMillan or my own at that time. The difference was Brown's were made in two parts with the join at the sides, then injected with an epoxy filler in the action area. McMillan's were made in two parts with the seam running through the center barrel channel and bottom, then filled with phenolic micro balloons. Mine were similar to the Brown's but I hadn't perfected the inner solid section that Brown had. After having worked in an aircraft composite factory and had experience seeing these laminates tested to destruction, I have developed one of the lightest strongest one piece carbon stocks made with unidirectional carbon and epoxy resin. No! they are not beautiful and require finishing. In the looks department they fall well behind a beautiful timber stock, but they take a lot of bashing without changing point of impact. This alone saves on barrel life and wasting time zeroing each time before a hunt. Recently I won a bet by running the back wheel of my Ford over a 18oz stock held up under two house bricks. That stock is still worth a barreled action fit. I have never wanted to become a commercial stock maker, just love working with these space age materials. I often ponder how a state of the art product can be made from two plus square meters of fabric and a can of liquid resin. Hope I haven't bored you to death or upset any timber guys but thought a little bit of history might be interesting. [/QUOTE]
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