skeletonizing a rifle stock?

[ZSteinle]

Did a build about 4 years ago that was a mountain rifle on a budget. Its a remington 700 7mag blind magazine 24" mountain contour barrel with a muzzle brake, skelotonized action. It comes in at 6lbs. 1oz bare rifle. I want to try to remove some more weight from the rifle with out spending any money. Basically continuing with the mountain rifle on a budget build. It has a bell and carlson stock that is about the only place left i can remove weight (other than taking off the muzzle brake and flute the bolt) I am thinking about skeletonizing the stock to remove the last few ounces out of it. I would like to do the forearm like the savage lightweight hunter and continue that trend on the butt section of the stock in a horizontal fashion. Curious if anyone has done this and could give me some ideas that maybe I havnt thought of.

 

[fmajor]

I think you'd be safe with some careful skeleton-izing of the forearm in front of the recoil lug and/or past the receiver/barrel support.

However, I'd be *very* careful removing material in the buttstock area and would *definitely not* remove material from anywhere around the receiver or grip.

Honestly, I'd 1st talk directly with a stock maker and/or a custom 'smith who is *very* familiar with light-weight rifle systems.