Big shout out to Manners and their customer service. Nearly every stock I own is a Manners with the MCST being my favorite. Tom won my loyalty with my very first one many years ago. It was my first full custom build and I was a lot more timid then with fitting and bedding. Back in those days they came with pillars installed which was great for a green horn. On this particular stock there was a slight fitment issue I didn't feel comfortable doing. Tom had me send the stock and my barreled action back and they took care of fitting and did an entire action bedding job with marine tex at no charge to me. The fitting and bedding job was impressive. The rifle shot extremely accurate. That bedding job inspired me to learn how to bed my own and what a good bedding job should be and look like. Many years later I've given Manners many of my dollars. Here are a couple that I have done using the Manners mcst stock, a Defiance GA Hunter and a Lone Peak Fuzion paired with the Unknown Munitions DBM running long XL magnum magazines. Both of these stocks were from the online store and not exact for these builds but I made them work. (Got a lot more experience now 
) They were cut for the Hawkins M5 and took minor fitting for the Unknown bottom metal.
Be prepared to make some adjustments to your action unless you have Defiance do it. I've now built 4 rifles with the Unknown Munitions bottom metal and every action has required machining but it's been worth it.
As you can see on this Lone Peak Fuzion I had to mill the front and rear of the receiver to get clearance. This was for a 338 RUM. The Defiance is a new 30-338 RUM I just put together with a long freebore for the Hornady 225 eldm and the Berger 230. It also required some mill work. If you haven't purchased your action yet you may consider buying a Bat Vesper from Unknown. Its cut and ready to go. As an aside, Tom if you're still following, I'd be very interested if you guys would merge the PH stock features into the T stock in a light weight EH fashion. Recessed cut on the butt end sides, shallower top, similar forend. Same could go with the EH4. Also another one of my favorites. Best of luck to the op.
) They were cut for the Hawkins M5 and took minor fitting for the Unknown bottom metal.
Be prepared to make some adjustments to your action unless you have Defiance do it. I've now built 4 rifles with the Unknown Munitions bottom metal and every action has required machining but it's been worth it.
As you can see on this Lone Peak Fuzion I had to mill the front and rear of the receiver to get clearance. This was for a 338 RUM. The Defiance is a new 30-338 RUM I just put together with a long freebore for the Hornady 225 eldm and the Berger 230. It also required some mill work. If you haven't purchased your action yet you may consider buying a Bat Vesper from Unknown. Its cut and ready to go. As an aside, Tom if you're still following, I'd be very interested if you guys would merge the PH stock features into the T stock in a light weight EH fashion. Recessed cut on the butt end sides, shallower top, similar forend. Same could go with the EH4. Also another one of my favorites. Best of luck to the op.
