Where are you getting it from?

 

I guess they are available from Jack's Mountain Stock Company. But I haven't contacted them. The donstith.com site lists them but they seem to be unresponsive. I know that Don Stith passed away...

 

They are. You will be very pleased. Mark is the best.

 

Don Stith died years ago.

 

Yes, he did. He had his patterns carved by Jacks Mt Stock Company. When Don died he willed all of them to Mark.

 

Then i’d guess you would also know the dedicated RFBR world moved away from them years before then for a couple big reasons.

 

I like mine!

 

There you go, that’s all that counts.

 

Why did they move away from Don’s pattern?

 

Don died 3 years ago. Mark Weader told me he carved Don’s stocks for like 20 years. Don would do the finish work. I bought one from him last year and spent almost $300 for it by the time you pay the freight and tax. He furnished the wood. Brian Voelker did the bedding for my Anschutz. I finished it with TruOil. I’ll try to get a picture posted with my phone.

 

This one’s maple with cherrywood accents. It needed more in letting than I wanted to handle

 

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Beautiful stocks. Don lived about 20 minutes from me. Real gentleman. Harrell tuners about 20 minutes south of me. Also great folks. He fashioned that stock for kimber 82g.

 

I like the laminate. What finish did you use? I think the grain in the maple pops a little more than mine. I read about several different processes that make that grain pop but I didn’t have the experience and didn’t want to mess it up. I stuck with something I was familiar with. Nice work.

 

I had no idea. Don told me to use tung oil and poly afterwards. I asked how many coats he said however many you want. It was summer so I think I did 10 coats of oil giving it time to dry and fine steel wool between coats. Tack cloth and repeat. Iirc then I put 4 or 5 coats of semi gloss minwax poly. Took every bit of a week. I sent him a pic and he said that " it looks ok, pretty good job". I took his word. Polished it with cabinet makers was a few coats and left it alone. It is a beautiful blank in person, if I may say. 9 months later he was gone. He gave me a brick of olympic gold medal match federal. He said it shot pretty good! It does!

 

The Jacks Mountain Stock Company website show the following inlets for Anschutz:
54.18
2013
1710
Would one of these inlets fit a 1407?

 

 

That is an Anschutz 1907 sitting in the stock on the railing. I know they had to inlet it a little deeper to get the action down. I had to go look and see and it was not cut out for a wing safety but I wouldn't think that would be a big deal. I know the trigger cut out had to be widened a little with a dremel or something. And the notch for the bolt handle needed to be made also. Maybe he left it ambidextrous on purpose. I know Mark can inlet for the 1407. Just tell him it's not a repeater.

We had a discussion about what trigger guard to inlet for. I had a 40X trigger guard and an Anschutz trigger guard. He said he had had some trigger guards made to accommodate the longer span. But they would cost $50, that's what they cost him to have custom made. If you look at the picture of the bottom of the stock, you see I opted for the 40X trigger guard which ends behind the rear mounting screw. If I had it to do over, I would have bought the custom trigger guard. It would have looked neater.

Mark told me he can only make a stock 2 1/2" wide so he glues on a strip on each side. If you have him use the same kind of wood I guess it's hard to tell, if you use a different kind of wood to accent the strips then you get what I got. I did the buttplate from some wood from the Woodsmith store.

Now that I think about it, I did use several coats of boiled linseed oil to seal it until I had it bedded. When I got it back I used 5 or 6 coats of TruOil to finish it.

Good Luck

 

I've got a Jack's Mountain Stock coming to me in the mail. Don Stith classic 250 laminate inletted for Remington 40x. The folks at Jack's have been great to work with.

 

please give us a update on your new stock.

 

I have one of Don's stocks, bout 15 - 18 years old at least. It was one of Don's rifles he used.

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