Boyds stocks

[50CalCal]

Boyds quality has been going down and their prices have been going up for quite a long time now. Even so I decided to take a chance and upgrade my CVA Optima V2. My mistake. The wood is really rough on the inletting in the forend. There isn't enough wood on the top rear edge to cover frame cutout leaving a gap. The buttstock also doesn't have enough wood on the top edge to cover the frame cutout also leaving a gap. The buttstock also didn't come with a swivel stud. Overall the fit really sucks and the finish is just okay. Definitely not worth the money spent as well as the 1.5 month wait. If I could have found a better laminated wood stock I would have ordered one but didn't see any. I'll be keeping the buttstock and forend and see if I can somehow make it fit better. This is the last order that I'll place with Boyds. I would think long and hard about other stock options before ordering any stock from them.

 

[Alan]

That’s disappointing, especially after the wait

 

[Eric300]

I've had a couple of Boyd's Stock in the past for 10-22's. They weren't too bad but did require a little 'fitting' to get them to fit the barreled actions property. That was to be expected. I hope they didn't cheap out too bad on their current products.

 

[50CalCal]

Upon further inspection, I've found a vertical crack in one laminate layer under the ramrod opening on the forend.

 

[Eric300]

Upon further inspection, I've found a vertical crack in one laminate layer under the ramrod opening on the forend.

Return to sender!

Feces happens. I received a Arken EPL4 scope last week. Took 10 days to get here after ordering it. After mounting it on my KIDD 10-22 I discovered that the zoom ring squeaks supper loud when turning it back down from 24x to 6x. Contacted Arken CS via email(s). Bill was quick to reply back and very helpful. He said they will replace it. Sent me a UPS return shipping label. I shipped it back to them on Thursday (12 March). Probably going to take another 2 weeks to get one sent back to me. I'll have to wait and see how this goes.