UPDATE WITH BOYD"S STOCK - ADVICE NEEDED!! Anyone Have Experience With Boyd's Stocks?

[meketrefe]

Oh, I forgot ..One thing I do not seem to find online anywhere is the addition of ah harmonics tuning system.
This could be as simple as a spring loaded screw with a brass tip that is just a couple of inches ahead of the chamber
in the stock. One more reason for providing a very hard section perhaps inserting a hardened steel metal rod
and aluminum block and then bedding on top. this will give lot of rigidity in any weather and then a base to
put a tuning screw. IMO this is a lot better than bedding the chamber area because with heat there is expansion
and the rifle might start stringing up in long sessions of fire.
The tuning is less critical with heavier barrels where you have less vibrations but some Bench Rest users still use
it. Some might say this is not free floating but is not true. there is a contact point but it is a controlled contact.

 

[FrankenCub]

I think there is no plug and play or shortcut. The budget stocks are price attractive but they have obvious limitations. They would not
be able to offer the prices they offer if the stocks included more features and manufacturing.
One could buy a $500 stock and still have bedding work to do anyway so all we are doing here is to use alternative cost effective
methods to achieve the same starting with a good bedding compound and job. With these cheap stocks one will end up using extra
bedding compound but that means a couple of dollars more perhaps? So it is nothing.

Some people will tell you buy a $3000 rifle from a builder and be done but we know that is out fo budget for a lot of people or
simply not needed.

Some things are really simple and inexpensive so don't get discouraged. I was looking for some bedding videos for you and found
this guy that is doing a budget rifle for the average working man on a budget. I don't necessarily agree with everything he is
doing but it is not bad and a good set of ideas that resolve some of the Axis problems similar to what you have.

Watch the whole series as he deals inexpensively with the pillar bedding, cheap plastic magazine bottom, etc. Some things do not apply to the new axis II nor your Ruger Aerican anyway but you will get the philosophy of the whole DIY type of easy improvements we are talking about. Again take with a grain of salt and we can talk about some of the things he does how to do them a bit differently and possibly better but the idea is to get the general idea behind some of the accuracy directives that have been there for a long time.

I'm going to watch his whole playlist to get some ideas, I love my Axis.

 

[meketrefe]

I'm going to watch his whole playlist to get some ideas, I love my Axis.

Good baseline but don't take everything to hart. There are few things I would do differently.
After you watch this we can talk about some things that are questionable.
Never anneal the brass like that. He is actually quenching the brass so no need to toss it in the water.
several other things with the rifle too. but overall it give some pretty common directives.