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Take a picture you have saved (you do have a saved folder of all the great rifles on many of these threads don't you?) and take it to a printer shop and get it scaled up till you have the LOP you prefer and cut a stock blank to this pattern. This 350 Rigby is not a bad place to start

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Take a picture you have saved (you do have a saved folder of all the great rifles on many of these threads don't you?) and take it to a printer shop and get it scaled up till you have the LOP you prefer and cut a stock blank to this pattern. This 350 Rigby is not a bad place to start

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This 350 Rigby is not a bad place to start

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The unfinished stock shown here in the first post is much too straight in comb to heel for a British type stock for a Mauser. My Rigby has almost 2" of drop in the heel from the CL of the bore .American designed stocks are very straight because most Americans shoot mostly from the bench.A too straight stock can get you killed when an animal is charging as a shooter as he lowers his barrel at a charging animal
cant keep his head down to see the sights.Try it sometime. Pondoro Taylor and J Hunter almost lost their lives finding this out .Jeff Cooper at Gunsite had a charging lion scenario where he noticed all the African rifles with little or no drop in the heel always shot high over the head of the raoidly charging lion ,therefore becoming theoretical lion food.

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I beg to differ with this proposition. This is my wildcat .505 SRE which I used in Africa on three different trips and took a black rhino, three elephant and five cape buffalo with. As you can see, it actually has negative drop at heel. However, years of International Skeet shooting had thoroughly accustomed me to this kind of stock, so that even in tight situations it never failed to shoot where I wanted it to.



The British stocking system is based on the premise that the shooter is taking a much more upright position than the one I use. I tend to lean into my heavy rifle, much the same way as I lean into my shotguns. Presumably Taylor and Hunter were shooting rifles which they were unaccustomed to and this can lead to disaster, no matter what the stock dimensions.

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I bet these fellows didn't argue!

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Dorleac's 275



More pics here http://forums.nitroexpress.com/printthre...amp;type=thread

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Have to wonder why nobody else picked up on the fact the xuasa's rifle has the high comb that slopes away from your face under recoil to avoid the "blackout" from the punch in the face of a more traditional stock shape?

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Maybe you don´t think what you read...?

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Negative comb angle is better when shooting with scope and big recoil caliber.

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^i find this a little difficult to swallow, when most shotgun stocks don't have nearly that much drop and only the fit and front bead to align sight. Given the groups some people can achieve with slugs and their use as short range stoppers for dangerous situations one has to question the old wisdom of the English stock shape.



And Igorrock you are from Finland it is no surprise you shot European style.

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The first time I tried this at Coopers school I was amazed at how difficult to impossible it was to keep the sights on a rapidly charging target with this type of stock ;the more I lowered my rifle barrel the harder it was to keep my head on the sights with the too high straight stock. /quote]

This is the reason that some authorities advocate going down on one knee when facing a charge. This makes it unnecessary to lower the rifle barrel as the charging animal approaches and gives the animal a smaller target to charge at. It is also a steadier platform to shoot from.

Of course, with a charging elephant the problem is reversed: the point of aim is constantly changing in an upward direction.

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